"Five yuan, what are you thinking? This little thing is sold at a few cents a bag, and only those with financial means can afford it.
Five dollars...wait, how do you sell it?"
Realizing that he was too excited, purchasing clerk Zhou asked another question.
"If I say five yuan per pound, we'll cover the packaging costs. If you think it's too expensive, we'll just sell the finished product and you'll be responsible for the packaging, then it'll only cost two yuan per pound.
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Of course, if you pack it yourself, you can bring the packaging bags and labels, and our villagers will help you seal them.
If I pay them a hundred yuan a month, I believe the villagers will be happy to do it for me."
Zhou, the purchasing clerk, was stunned when he heard this. The selling price of five yuan per pound sounded quite expensive, much more expensive than meat.
But if you only buy the goods, it’s only two yuan per pound, which is really not expensive.
It sounds like the packaging is more expensive than the genuine product, but there is really nothing we can do about it.
It’s because productivity cannot be improved now, and there are shortcomings everywhere.
For food that needs to be packaged in bags, the packaging cost alone is very expensive.
"We've calculated that one pound can yield thirty bags. At the retail price of 0.25, your supply and marketing cooperative will still make a good profit."
"But if we sell it for the 25 cents you mentioned, most people can't really afford it."
Look at how conflicted he is.
Qianshui had to come up with an idea.
"Uncle, you can't sell it in bundles.
If it is sold individually in a bag, it will be sold at 25 cents.
If it's two bags, you can sell them at 45 cents.
If you buy five bags, you can sell them for one dollar."
"But, but this sounds more expensive!"
Seeing this blockhead and the stubborn look on his face, Qianshui was so angry that he almost died.
"Uncle, you guys have always set the price. How could anyone know that you only wanted to sell it for 25 cents a bag in the beginning?
When a normal person hears that buying five bags only costs 20 cents per bag, wouldn’t they all want to buy five bags?
One bag costs 25 cents, two bags costs 45 cents. Five bags costs only 20 cents. How can a normal person buy them?"
Zhou Fen thought about it and realized that if it were her, she would definitely grit her teeth and buy five bags.
If it really doesn't work, make an appointment with others to buy it together, and then you can split it together if it doesn't work out.
"Okay, then... then uncle will sell it like this."
Zhou, the purchasing agent, always felt that this sales method was a rip-off. However, for the sake of sales performance, he had to give it a try.
After the discussion, I suddenly realized that this time we were only discussing the entire work, and it was still a few days away from being sold.
"We've agreed that we're only responsible for selling dry goods. Uncle, if you know someone at a plastic packaging factory, then you can go and order the packaging.
If you don't want to order packaging, please help us negotiate with them for packaging. We'll cover the cost of the goods upon arrival, and add one yuan per pound for packaging, which works out to five yuan per pound. Do you want to negotiate it yourself, or do you want us to help you negotiate?"
Purchasing clerk Zhou glared at her.
"You little girl, you are beating around the bush and asking me to be a matchmaker. I am an old man, but I still can't get around a little girl like you.
OK, OK, it’s true that the waves behind push the waves ahead. I’m really getting old, really old.”
Qianshui hurriedly picked up some food for the other person.
"Uncle, you're not old, you're very handsome. If you go out and people don't know you, they might think you're my brother. Really, look at my serious eyes."
Zhou Fen laughed out loud. She had never expected this new sister to be so interesting. "Brother?" With her uncle being this way, it would be strange if he was her brother.
But she still put forward her own opinion.
"Honestly, meat is only 1.2 yuan a pound now. Even without a ticket, you can still buy it at 2 yuan a pound.
Spending 25 cents on a small bag of spicy noodles...that's really not something most people can afford. If it were me, I wouldn't be willing to spend that."
Qianshui just asked back.
"Your child wants a fifty-cent snack. Will you buy it for him or not? Fifty cents a month."
"Of course I have to buy him some snacks worth one dollar a month. I can still afford that."
"So, with so many working-class families in the city, most people can afford to give their children a few cents a month for snacks.
What's more, other people's children have some to eat, but your own children have never eaten it. Do you feel bad about it?
There are also sales points at stations and other places, and this kind of thing is very popular.
Anyone who has tasted it once will want to buy it again."
These things are not only loved by children, but adults love them too.
In this era when snacks are scarce, it is impossible for something like spicy strips, which has a huge market in modern times, to fail to sell here!
"Then I'll contact you now to do the packaging. After you've finished packaging, supply them to us in bags."
These days, when supply and marketing cooperatives buy things to sell, many of them are not packaged in small packages. They are all bought in large cans or vats, and then they package them in small oil bags and sell them.
Nowadays, plastic packaging is used, which looks more upscale. The packaging fee is one yuan per kilogram, which is not expensive when you calculate it.
After all, these days, sealing things requires people to seal them, but there are no laminating machines or anything like that.
Qianshui had thought about replacing the obsolete plastic sealing machines, but the problem still remained: how could such a small city possibly buy sealing machines that were only available from large manufacturers!
To put it bluntly, technology is backward, and if you want to produce anything, you have to have a source.
After signing the contract, the next step was packaging. That same day, I followed purchasing agent Zhou to the plastics factory.
At first, they refused outright, saying they didn't want to take such small orders.
It was only after the purchasing clerk Zhou apologized a lot and Qianshui gave him two packs of good cigarettes that the man finally gave in.
"Normally, we're not willing to take small orders like yours, unless we can make 10,000 at a time. Otherwise, we're not willing to make such small packaging bags, even if they're just transparent bags."
This was the case when we were behind the times. Even the packaging bags we made were only transparent. The instructions inside and other information about the content had to be printed by other printing factories.
"Then let's make 10,000 first, and we can continue to make more later."
Qianshui was also straightforward. They wanted to start with an order of 10,000 yuan. What could she do? She could only agree.
When purchasing clerk Zhou heard this, his heart was pounding. Ten thousand bags! How much money would it take to make back the money he earned from these ten thousand bags?
How long will it take to sell them all?
At this moment, he really didn't think that something that cost five dollars a piece was expensive.
Just look at how much the packaging alone costs. This is just the plastics factory, and we'll have to go to the printing factory later.
If the supply and marketing cooperatives were burdened with so many bags, the people in the management department would definitely be worried sick.
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