Chapter 141 Career Takes Another Step
Shi Xiaoai's new store quickly gained a foothold after its opening.
It is located at the starting point of the bus, and countless people wait for the bus here every day.
It mainly sells fast food, whether it is stone steamed buns or various buns, eggs, roujiamo...all of them can be bought and taken away.
Therefore, even those who are in a hurry to go to work can come here and pack a portion to eat on the way while waiting for the bus.
The business from these passengers alone is enough to support their business for the whole day.
And that’s just part of it.
The surrounding family compounds and factory workers within a few kilometers are also the main consumers there.
Especially now that the weather is just right, and the open space at the station is free for them to use at night, they just need to keep it clean.
Therefore, the barbecue night market there has even more visitors than the main store!
It’s because the venue there is so big and so convenient.
No matter how big the yard of Courtyard No. 1 is, it can’t be bigger than the bus company’s parking lot!
In addition, Li Min is a smart person. After making money, she immediately ordered many large parasols and decorated the outside of these parasols with various small string lights.
When you plug it in at night, it sparkles and looks so beautiful.
The municipal construction in Yuncheng is not very good at the moment, and there are not street lights everywhere.
In addition, everyone is thrifty, and many families are reluctant to turn on the lights at night, so most parts of the city will be plunged into darkness at night.
In this way, the snack shops on Qingyun Street have become even more unique and eye-catching.
In order to open the business, Xiao Ai borrowed 3,000 yuan from the bank. In fact, the total investment in Qingyun Street was less than 2,000 yuan.
Most of the investment was used to renovate the site.
But before two months had passed, all the money was recovered.
Not only did we recover the money, we also made a profit!
Driven by this favorable trend, Shi Xiaoai and his team opened their second and third stores one after another, and their business was surprisingly good.
There is no best, only better.
Moreover, the store managers of these stores actually started to fight among themselves without Shi Xiaoai knowing.
Each of them has developed its own characteristics based on the characteristics and advantages of its own location.
For example, a snack shop near the port started a seafood barbecue business by relying on the fact that it could get the freshest and cheapest seafood.
At this time, Yuncheng's supply of beef and mutton was still insufficient.
Shi Xiaoai and his friends’ barbecue stall generally focuses on pork.
There was no way. They wanted to make grilled lamb skewers, but the supply of lamb had always been very random. It would be available when they came across it, but if they didn’t, it would probably be out of stock for several days.
No one can solve this problem.
The port used seafood instead of beef and mutton, which not only perfectly solved the problem of insufficient supply on its side, but also reduced a competitor for other stores.
After all, competing for resources among one's own family is a very troublesome problem.
The branch located at the back door of the hospital, which mainly targets nearby primary and secondary schools, has started a takeaway service.
Because those two schools are affiliated with hospitals, many of the students' parents are doctors in the hospitals.
Everyone knows how intense the work of doctors is. When they are busy, they really have no time to take care of children, let alone cook for them.
Although schools and hospitals have cafeterias, they all serve meals from big pots, with few varieties and not tasty.
The branch here took the initiative and went to the family compound to distribute flyers.
The above lists the varieties and prices that the store can provide, and the following also emphasizes the discounts that can be given for a monthly subscription.
This offer includes price discounts and special service guarantees.
For example, you can let the children come to the restaurant to eat directly with a monthly card, or you can leave the lunch boxes at the restaurant and have the restaurant pack them in advance for the children to take home and eat.
We even provide a food delivery service, where the waiter will deliver the food to your door free of charge at the time and place agreed in advance.
This will not only solve the problem of children's meals, but also the problems of the elderly and even patients at home who are unable to go out.
At the beginning, the target customers of this preferential policy were only students and family members of the hospital’s family quarters.
As the reputation gradually spread, patients in the hospital, dual-income families in the surrounding area, and even some young workers who were busy with work in the factory and didn't want to eat in the cafeteria, all came to order meals.
In the end, the monthly subscription card for the snack bar even became a source of bragging rights for young employees.
The business there was just as booming as the main store. Less than two months after opening, the store manager took the initiative to ask for more employees.
However, the people recruited this time are mainly for delivery, so the requirements for appearance and age are lower, and the main focus is on hard work and perseverance.
Priority will be given to those with bicycles.
Such recruitment conditions made the leaders of the offices near the hospital very happy.
After all, everyone has a group of unemployed young people with little education who cannot be placed!
Shi Xiaoai was naturally happy to see her subordinates working so hard.
She also felt the country's determination to change from the steady profits brought in by these branches.
This made her more determined to seize good policies and opportunities, expand and strengthen her business faster and more accurately, and seize the market earlier.
With money in hand, Shi Xiaoai wanted to start a new business.
For the time being, Xiao Ai doesn't want to continue running the restaurant.
She knows that as the market becomes increasingly open, restaurant business will get better and better, especially some high-end and distinctive restaurants will soon have their highlight moments.
But the biggest problem now is insufficient market supply.
Their current snack bar has some popular items that it is difficult to guarantee the supply. If they open a more upscale restaurant, the daily supply alone will probably give her a headache.
In this case, it would be better to wait for a better opportunity.
Shi Xiaoai has recently been thinking about opening a chain supermarket selling agricultural and sideline products.
At present, most of the rural areas near Yuncheng have completed the transition to household contract responsibility system.
This means that the supply of food will become more and more sufficient.
Similar to the food supply, the supply of agricultural and sideline products such as vegetables, fruits, tea, etc. will increase and the varieties will become more and more complete.
It is still the period of unified national supply, and residents still need to use tickets to buy things.
But in fact, some things that do not require tickets are slowly pouring into the market, but the quantity is not too large and the variety is not complete enough.
Since Shi Xiaoai and her friends have their own snack shop, they interact more with nearby farmers on weekdays.
We also have a good relationship with the nearby production teams.
So she is more confident about the source of goods.
She thought that opening a chain of agricultural and sideline products supermarkets, mainly selling agricultural products purchased from rural areas, would be very promising.
Shi Xiaoai has been mainly working on this project recently.
She didn't worry about the location. As long as she promised to solve the employment problem of unemployed young people like the snack shop, all the offices in Yuncheng would be attracted by it.
After all, the snack bar's business model has been something everyone has envied for a long time.
Shi Xiaoai’s plan is that in the future, chain supermarkets selling agricultural and sideline products can be opened near each branch.
In this way, on the one hand, they can take care of each other, and on the other hand, they don't have to bother two people for the same matter, and can deal directly with the same office where the store is located.
She felt that in order to compete for the right to move in, the office directors would try every possible way to help them find a suitable location.
Shi Xiaoai's biggest headache right now is the supply issue.
To open a farm produce store, vegetables, fruits, and eggs are definitely necessary, but in fact, what ordinary people are most willing to spend money on are rice, flour, grain, and oil.
This is what concerns the people's livelihood and what people care about most.
If these cannot be found, it will be difficult for the store to survive.
Rice and flour are not difficult for Shi Xiaoai.
Although Yuncheng is not a land of plenty, it does have a large area of arable land.
In addition to paying public grain, the common people also keep a considerable amount of grain at home every year.
She had made an agreement with several brigades that they would collect grain for Shi Xiaoai and the others, and she would pay a price that was relatively higher than the government's purchase price.
What she is worried about now is where to find cooking oil of guaranteed quality.
Shi Xiaoai ran to several places and also went to a famous oil press factory nearby.
In her eyes, those oil presses were just small workshops.
The gap between the output and what she needs is quite large.
Shi Xiaoai has been running around for several days trying to solve this oil problem, but has not yet found a suitable solution.
That day, Xiao Ai ran around for most of the day and only returned to the city near dusk.
When she was walking through a free market, she suddenly remembered the task Mingrui and Mingxi had assigned her when she went out in the morning, which was to prepare a pair of small sleeves for each of the two people.
They said that the kindergarten teacher asked them to prepare it so that they could use it when eating and doing handicrafts.
Shi Xiaoai is really not good at needlework. Until now, she has always bought clothes for the children at home if she can, and if she can't, she has to ask Aunt Liu to make them for them.
But she would not bother Aunt Liu with such a small matter as the sleeves, so Shi Xiaoai decided to go to the market to find a sewing shop and buy two pairs for each of her two children.
This way everyone can save worry.
Now there are several free markets opened in the city one after another, basically all of them were built by various districts.
The shops in the market are rented out and charged on a daily basis. As long as they pay the money, unemployed young people in the city or villagers in the countryside can come and rent a stall to sell things.
At the innermost end of these markets, there are now almost all dedicated clothing areas, where people sell clothes, fabrics, and even clothes making.
And it is very detailed, with professionals doing the cutting, sewing and even hemming.
Shi Xiaoai actually just wanted to buy some cloth scraps there, and then find a craftsman with a sewing machine to make a few pairs for her on the spot.
What she didn't expect was that this sudden impulse would lead her to meet an acquaintance.
As soon as Shi Xiaoai reached the intersection of the clothing market, she saw a large group of people gathered together.
Surrounded in the middle was a folding steel bed, on which were placed a variety of clothes.
From her position, she couldn't really see what the clothes looked like, but she had seen this situation many times before and knew that the clothes there were usually made from defective fabrics from textile factories and then processed by someone else.
The main feature is cheap and practical.
When Shi Xiaoai passed by, she was about to go around, but she was soon attracted by the shouting voice.
She was stunned for a moment, but couldn't help but squeeze into the crowd.
"Yang Hui?" she shouted in surprise.
Hearing her voice, Yang Hui, who was busy shouting, turned her head and saw a surprised expression on her face.
"Shi Xiaoai! Hey, how come you have time to come here? Wait a moment, I'll be right out!"
As Yang Hui spoke, she stuffed the clothes in her hand into the hands of the girl next to her, and then squeezed out of the crowd.
When Xiao Ai told her what she was here to do, Yang Hui immediately said, "It's just a few pairs of sleeves, it's not a big deal.
Come on, come on, come with me home, I'll ask my uncle to make you a few pairs right now, and I guarantee they won't be late for the children to use tomorrow."
Shi Xiaoai also wanted to ask Yang Hui about her experiences over the past year, and when she returned to Yuncheng.
I also want to ask why she didn’t contact me after she came back?
So I listened to her and didn't refuse, and followed her towards an alley behind the market.
This is a dead end alley with only one exit. At the innermost part of the alley is a yard facing the alley entrance.
Yang Hui lives in that yard.
The yard was very large, surrounded by a circle of red brick bungalows.
The overall building does not look like a residence, but more like a small factory on the street.
Xiao Ai was surprised to see this, and Yang Hui explained, "This was originally a match factory run by a government office. Later, the district government issued a notice saying that factories that could easily pose a danger to the lives of surrounding residents could not be run in residential areas and had to move out. So, the factory later closed down."
I came back six months ago and wanted to find a spacious place to open a factory. I chose this place and rented it.
"You opened a factory?" Shi Xiaoai was a little shocked.
Yang Hui smiled sheepishly. "It's not really a factory, at most it's just a slightly larger workshop. I hired a few workers and they help me make some clothes."
The two of them were talking as they walked into the yard together.
Looking inside through the lighted windows, Shi Xiaoai realized that what Yang Hui said was really too modest.
In each of the dozen or so rooms, there were at least a dozen sewing machines, and behind each sewing machine sat a female worker.
Everyone was so busy that they didn't even look up. The baskets beside them were all filled with clothes that had been sewn or were waiting to be sewn.
Seeing this scene, Shi Xiaoai exclaimed: "This is not a small workshop, this is a real clothing processing factory!"
She smacked her lips, looked at Yang Hui, and praised her from the bottom of her heart: "Not bad, Yang Hui. You have developed so quickly in such a short time, you are really amazing!"
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