I Know Everything - Chapter 468

Chapter 468: Preparing for work.

There were only 5 stores of Yongxing Supermarkets now.

But Yongxing Supermarkets, which had only five stores, had 8 billion in capital.

It was unprecedented for a small and medium sized supermarket company.

China had many regional supermarkets that had only two or three stores and three or five stores.

However those supermarkets had great limitations and they couldn’t resist pressure well.

They were prone to have problems when the straw faced the wind.

So the replacement in the supermarket industry was very high as sometime within a few months, dozens of supermarkets in a city would change hands or directly change the company.

But a supermarket with five stores and eight billion yuan in capital would stand out.

They didn’t have any pressure on their funds so they could perform better in their operations.

So on one hand, his peers in the supermarket industry were mocking Yongxing Supermarket for their amputation to survive tactics and for not being what they used to be anymore and on the other hand, they closely watched their moves.

“My dad lost five kilo during this period, which scared my mom.” Zhang Yaya said to Chen Huan, “He took his team to go negotiate with the suppliers during the night and have classes with the employee during the night, sometimes he would even sleep in the office. It’s about to be New Year and my grandma has yet to see her son!”

“Are there any results?” Chen Huan asked with a laugh.

“There is!” Zhang Yaya replied with a smile, “The appearance of the supermarket is completely different from before. It isn’t only the structure and the style of the supermarkets that changed, even the newly recruited employee’s mindset completely stunned me.”

After a pause, she continued, “It’s just that we are spending a lot of money, my mom feels pained, I feel pain… but my miser of a dad actually doesn’t feel pained and even used it easily.”

Actually, most of Yongxing Supermarkets’ stores were opened around Lin’an.

For example, there were five in the urban area nearby Lin’an and another 3 in the two counties under Lin’an.

Although those three stores would also close down, most of the employees there would come to Lin’an to work in the new Yongxing Supermarkets.

The five stores needed 3000 people, which was an average of 600 employees per store. There was no store in the world that needed such a high number.

Supermarkets generally opened at seven in the morning and closed at 10 at night.

Adding the two hours of preparing to open and closing, it was 15 hours of work in full, which was around two shifts worth.

Each shift had at least 300 people working, although the supermarkets had a surface area of 12 000 square meters, it was still a lot.

But in Chen Huan’s plan, the number of employees was directly related to the quality of service so it absolutely couldn’t be diminished.

The expense would inevitably increase with more employees.

With more expenses, the pressure would increase also.

The most worrying issue for the pair of mother and daughter was whether they would be able to attract a large number of customers after their reopening.

If it didn’t work, they could only ask Zhang Duocai to give up being an entrepreneur and become a landlord instead.

Obviously, the mother was more worried in general as Zhang Yaya had more confidence since she often came to check the stores.

She brought Chen Huan with her this time to see if the renovation and structure of the stores reached his expectation.

The car arrived at the underground parking lot as they talked.

The previous two generations of the Zhang Family sure had some forethoughts.

When they bought the lands to build the five buildings, they also built the three floors of underground parking lots.

It was to say that the people back then were looser and that construction was cheaper back then so it was quickly approved and allowed to build.

So the entire 18 000 square meters parking lot could accommodate 1500 to 2000 cars, which was very convenient for the customers and the workers in the office above.

There was even some nearby resident that came there to rent parking spaces.

With so many parking spaces, they didn’t have to worry that the customers wouldn’t be able to find parking spaces when the business was good, which prevented people from being unable to consume.

They walked to the renovated supermarket.

The materials used weren’t bad and although there was a smell, it wasn’t strong.

They had been ventilating a lot to reduce the smells of formaldehyde and others.

The height of the floor for this type of building was obviously different from normal houses.

At the beginning, since the buildings were for commercial purposes, the height for each floor of the five buildings was 6 meters, except for the parking lot.

Such a high floor height was the most suitable for big commercial facilities and it would be a waste to use it as an office.

The reason why Chen Huan gave the plan to Yongxing Supermarkets was because he visited it and felt it really looked like Costco.

At least the high story height and the spacious shopping area were similar.

However, Costco’s market was North America where the land was sparsely populated and everyone had a car so they could just build a single floor building with an 8000 square meters parking lot on ground level.

It wasn’t the case in China.

Let’s take IKEA for example, which operated in the suburbs, their business in China was definitely not as good as in the other countries.

Chinese people were accustomed to living in the city, which was more convenient.

However, places were limited in a city so Costco’s model was destined to fail.

For example, Yongxing Supermarket had 6000 square meters on one floor and it would be 12 000 square meters with two floors, so plenty of space.

Now, Yongxing Supermarket was empty.

The usual supermarkets such Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Ito Yokaido, all adopted a compact shelf structure.

Their supermarkets had two rows of shelves everywhere and left a little space where two shopping carts could pass at the same time at most, the rest were all products.

But looking closely, each of the products only took a little space.

It was just filled with products from different manufacturers.

Thousands of them were densely packed together for the customers to choose.

It includes frozen products or fresh products.

There were at most around twenty packs of each product for you to buy.

The clerk would replenish it when there weren’t any more.

Although it was cumbersome, it was the standard supermarket model.I Know Everything Chapter 467