I saw everything

Chapter 45 A perfect match
Lu Weibin learned about the strawberry greenhouse.

So he drove the tricycle back and took the four baskets of jasmine strawberries back to the packaging yard.

As soon as I came back, I saw Xiao Li, who was in charge of delivery, driving back on an electric tricycle.

"Xiao Li, you're here just in time. Deliver the packaged strawberries to the store on Ermalu."

"Oh, okay. Let me catch my breath first. I just pulled cans from the canning factory to various supermarkets in the city."

Lu Weibin handed him a cigarette, but Xiao Li, who was usually addicted to smoking, was shaking his head: "I've quit!"

"Quit? That's rare!"

"Don't say anymore. I took my dad to the hospital for a check-up the day before yesterday and he was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer!" Xiao Li's face was filled with fear and worry.

"Advanced stage lung cancer? Gurgle..." Lu Weibin's palms were also sweating, because Jiang Miao had advised him not to smoke, otherwise he would easily get lung cancer. When he thought of his several hungry children and wife at home, he was also thinking about whether he should quit smoking.

Xiao Li took a short break, then pulled the cart to the temporary cold storage and moved more than 300 boxes of strawberries in stock.

After signing for confirmation with the warehouse keeper, he pulled the items back to the tricycle.

"Manager Lu? Are you still here?"

"Eh? I was distracted just now."

Lu Weibin hurried to help Xiao Li move.

"Manager Lu, thank you."

"No, but I also plan to quit smoking. How about we supervise each other in the future?"

Xiao Li glanced at Lu Weibin and found that he looked very serious, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

After a while, about 300 boxes of strawberries were loaded onto the tricycle, and Xiao Li drove away on the tricycle.

Almost an hour later.

Xiao Li drove a tricycle and finally stood out from the crowd of electric vehicles on Ermalu Road and squeezed to the door of a store.

The sign on the shop reads: Hailufeng Company Direct Store.

There are two sub-signs on both sides, which read: Eel Restaurant and Strawberry Garden.

He parked the tricycle at the entrance of the strawberry garden, pulled the handbrake, and came to the front desk with the cargo list: "Meiya, this is the cargo list, sign your name."

"Wait a moment." Mei Ya took the manifest, then came to the back of the tricycle and counted the large boxes, a total of 9 large boxes. She confirmed that the seals were intact before signing.

She and Xiao Li moved two boxes together.

Suddenly a customer wanted to pay, so she had to hurry to the cashier.

The guest in front of me was a pretty young woman with long hair, who was holding a little girl.

"Can this welfare voucher be used here?"

Meiya nodded: "Okay."

"The total price for 5 boxes is 58 yuan, and the coupon will reduce 10 yuan, so you can pay 48 yuan."

The payment notification will sound immediately.

Ding Dong! 48 yuan has been received!
"Thank you for your patronage. I'll pack it for you!"

By the time Mei Ya finished her work, Xiao Li had already moved in.

Xiao Li checked his phone and found that it was already past eleven forty, so he took a selfie in front of the store door and sent it to the attendance department's attendance group via WeChat.

Then he parked the tricycle and went directly to the eel restaurant and ordered an eel rice set meal.

Since he is an employee of the company, he can pay the eel rice restaurant first and then submit reimbursement to the Finance Department at the end of the month. This is considered an off-site dining subsidy, but it is only limited to the company's restaurant. If he eats an off-site meal in a non-company restaurant, he can only be reimbursed 15 yuan per meal.

Moreover, when eating in the company cafeteria, you can only dine in and cannot take it away, and you cannot waste food. But the good thing is that you can eat as much as you want, and the Finance Department will reimburse you no matter how much you eat in one meal.

Xiao Li came to the staff-only room on the second floor.

After a while, a large box of eel rice came up.

Next to them were the warehouse keeper and shopping guide from the Hailufeng Gold Shop, who were also eating here.

Xiao Li was not very familiar with them, so he nodded and buried his head in eating.

The slightly charred grilled eel is topped with a secret sauce and garnished with a pinch of chopped green onions. It is served with rich and fragrant Wuchang rice, a plate of boiled vegetables including snow peas, celery and spinach, and a bowl of winter melon and pork ribs soup.

The set meal costs 30 yuan per serving. This price is relatively high in Shanmei City, but it is relatively low compared to Japanese food restaurants, and it is in a commercial street like Ermalu, a popular street. 30 yuan for an eel rice set meal is quite cost-effective.

The gold shop salesperson at the next table said helplessly while eating: "Although this eel rice is delicious, it's easy to get tired of it if you eat it every day!"

"It's good to have something to eat." The warehouse keeper picked up the winter melon and pork ribs soup and took a sip.

Xiao Li put down his chopsticks, looked at the two of them with a smile, and told them a company gossip: "If you want to eat other dishes, you will probably have to wait a little longer. The company cafeteria is trying to make barbecued pork and beggar's chicken. I often go to the cafeteria to taste them these days. I guess after the research is done, they will arrange for the eel restaurant to make barbecued pork rice and beggar's chicken."

"Is that so? That's great." The shopping guide immediately smiled brightly.

After a while, Mei Ya also came up to eat.

Meanwhile, the Eel Restaurant and the Strawberry Farm became very busy.

Because noon and evening are the peak traffic hours on Ermalu Road, not only locals come here to consume, but many foreign tourists also often come here to check in.

A few tourists who came from Guangzhou seemed to have come here after watching videos online.

“Is there any room?”

"There's still room on the second floor."

The female tourist with the handbag turned around and said, "Honey, go to the second floor to order food. I want to buy some strawberries to try."

"Okay! Hurry up."

The female tourist walked from the first floor lobby of the Eel Restaurant, through the side door, and arrived at the Strawberry Garden. The two stores are actually connected internally.

The furnishings in the strawberry garden are very simple, with just two rows of cold air cabinets, a few refrigerators and a cash register.

The cold air cabinet is filled with boxes of strawberries.

“Can I try it?”

Xiao Jing, who was filling in for Mei Ya, took out a box of strawberries: "Okay, this is vanilla strawberries."

As he spoke, he washed it and cut it into four pieces.

At this time, several other guests also came over.

“Your store only sells strawberries?”

Xiao Jing smiled and replied, "These are strawberries from our company's own farm. Let's have a try."

The female tourist used a toothpick to pick a piece of vanilla strawberry. Before she ate it, she smelled the rich aroma, and then took a bite: "So sweet! It's fragrant and sweet, and it really has a little vanilla flavor."

At this time, Xiaojing had already cut two other varieties of strawberries: "This is cheese strawberry, and this is jasmine strawberry, everyone can try it."

"Can it be cheaper?"

Xiao Jing could only smile and shake her head: "Sorry, the price is set by the company. This is a promotion. You can take a look."

"Twenty off for every one hundred?"

"I have a coupon for the eel restaurant next door. Can it be used as a deduction?"

"OK."

"Then can the welfare coupons and preferential activities be combined together?"

"can."

A customer quickly picked out 10 boxes of strawberries and said, "Check out!"

"Wait a moment." Xiaojing quickly paid the bill, took the welfare coupon, typed out the bill, and then packed the strawberries.

"Thank you for your patronage. Since you spent over 100 yuan, I will give you a coupon for the Eel Restaurant, which can be used to deduct 10 yuan at the Eel Restaurant."

Through this method of exchanging welfare coupons, customers who buy strawberries at the strawberry garden will go to the eel restaurant for dinner; customers who eat at the eel restaurant will go to the strawberry garden to buy strawberries.

Being greedy for small gains is a common trait of most people.

This is also one of the tricks that the marketing planning office provides to physical stores.

During the marketing process, instead of giving coupons for our own products, we give coupons for another store. In addition, the products of the two stores are different, so customers may consume again for that little bit of bargain.

In this way, the direct-operated store's daily turnover reached 30,000 to 40,000 yuan after only one week of opening.

(End of this chapter)