As a distributor of the beautiful brand of ham sausages, wouldn't it be a guaranteed win for us?
With the future improvement of people's living standards, there will also be demands for the taste of ham sausages. An extra dollar to buy a beautiful brand with higher meat content and better texture will become an acceptable choice.
Liu Fang is now tasting the sweetness of being an exclusive distributor. Hearing these words, a hint of desire appears on her face, but she quickly calms down and shakes her head, saying:
“Our shop is too small, we can't store that many ham sausages. Also, the business of hand-grabbed pancakes is so good right now, we don't have enough staff to deliver ham sausages to market wholesalers.”
The most profitable part for most distributors is supplying to peers in the market. If each goes through dozens of pieces, the total daily volume will pick up.
Although when supplying to the same market, everyone will make a profit of one or two yuan, but it cannot stand the high sales volume of some single products.
“Then we can hire people!” Liu Chen didn't want to miss such a golden goose.
“Let’s see.” Liu Fang was a little hesitant. The cost has increased so much now, and if she hires another person, it will be another cost.
Liu Chen nodded, but didn't intend to wait and see. She planned to look for nearby warehouses first. If she wants to be a distributor, how can she do it without stocking hundreds of pieces of goods?
“Sister Liu!”
A "Sister Liu" made the mother and daughter look up. It was the procurement person from yesterday's old hot pot restaurant, the man in the suit.
“Twenty pieces of glutinous rice balls, twenty pieces of dumplings, and another twenty pieces of the pancake from yesterday. How much is it? Issue the invoice, and it will be delivered to the parking lot behind at 11:30 AM, truck number 8654.”
“Okay, how did yesterday’s pancake sell?” Liu Fang was a little nervous and couldn't help but ask.
The man in the suit nodded affirmatively, “They said no one ordered it at first, but then someone ordered one, and people around them followed suit. As a result, the pancakes tried yesterday were sold out.”
However, twenty pieces a day is the least sold item for a chain store with dozens of branches. The man in the suit didn’t take it seriously. If it weren't for the boss himself making the request, he wouldn’t have come over, he would have just made a phone call.
With this, twenty pieces out of the one hundred pieces of hand-grabbed pancakes that arrived yesterday were pre-ordered, and then seven or eight more people came, all taking hand-grabbed pancakes.
“Sister Liu, you are the best!”
“Sister Liu, if there are any new snacks like this next time, remember to recommend them to me!”
“Business has been too good these past two days, I’ve even called my wife to come to C City to help.”
“Oh, me too. I was planning to return the shop and go out to work, but now the sales are good, I'm thinking of working until the end of the year and renovating my home when I go back to my hometown for the New Year.”
After this group left, Sister Li also came to work. She first went into the cold storage to count the goods, then came out and wrote an order, reminding Liu Fang to call and order more, otherwise they would run out of stock.
——
Wang Dong sat on the steps, covering his forehead with both hands, the sun gradually rising, and his back was already completely soaked with sweat.
His factory mainly does OEM for large coastal factories. After finishing, they are transported by refrigerated trucks. The large factories then stick their own labels and resell them at high prices.
As an OEM, the profit is very thin. Being able to expand to the current 100-square-meter factory is all due to Wang Dong's careful calculation of profits.
But now…
The large factory, with a casual remark about poor sales, canceled the order, which meant canceling ten thousand pieces of hand-grabbed pancakes.
They were generous with their words, saying that the deposit of one thousand pieces was not needed, and it would be considered compensation.
However, the price he quoted to the large factory was already very low. The cost of each piece of goods was seventy yuan, and the cost of transportation by refrigerated truck added another five yuan per piece. He quoted 85 yuan, making a profit of ten yuan per piece.
Now, for ten thousand pieces, the cost alone is seven hundred thousand yuan, and a deposit of eighty-five thousand yuan is nothing!
What's more…
He made a round of phone calls this morning, but no factory was willing to take this batch of goods. Some people even subtly reminded him that he was being set up because he attempted to break away from being an OEM and wanted to create his own brand.
Cigarette butts with glowing tips were scattered at Wang Dong's feet.
“Am I going to be an OEM for others my whole life?”
His phone, which had been ringing with no one calling after a morning of making calls, suddenly rang. He took it out and saw that it displayed “Sister Liu Frozen Goods.”
Wang Dong's eyes lit up, and he immediately pressed the answer button, thinking that one hundred pieces a day, it would take a hundred days to sell ten thousand pieces. The only problem now is that if these ten thousand pieces are not sold, his factory cannot produce other products, and there is no space in the cold storage.
“Brother Wang, I am Liu Chen from ‘Sister Liu Frozen Goods.’ Can you deliver a thousand pieces of hand-grabbed pancakes today? We have rented a new cold storage, so we can store more goods and save you the trouble of driving every day.”
“One thousand pieces?” Wang Dong’s hand holding the phone tightened, and he swallowed, wanting to confirm again.
“Yes, if you have the goods, it’s best to deliver them this morning, is that okay?”
“We have goods, we have goods! We can deliver as early as 11 o’clock!”
The phone call ended. Wang Dong pursed his lips. Perhaps heaven was also helping him. Sister Liu’s newly rented cold storage, wouldn’t it be perfect for storing his ten thousand pieces of hand-grabbed pancakes?!
After hanging up the phone, Liu Chen tilted her head and frowned at the landline.
Her former employer never stocked up a lot of goods. Logically, with their daily sales of one hundred pieces, based on his personality, he would at most prepare two hundred pieces as backup. Now she was asking for one thousand pieces at once, and he actually said he could deliver them this morning…
There’s something wrong, something is very wrong!
With doubts in her mind, Liu Chen went with Liu Fang when Wang Dong called to say that he and the goods had arrived at the cold storage behind, leaving Sister Li to guard the shop.
Upon arriving at the warehouse, the friendly warehouse aunt they had met a few days ago was directing a refrigerated truck with its rear door opened to its maximum angle to reverse. Seeing Liu Chen and her mother, she smiled and asked:
“Will your own employees unload, or will our employees unload?”
Liu Fang looked at the long refrigerated truck filled with white foam boxes and felt her heart pounding. This full truck was all her, Liu Fang’s, goods!
Liu Chen opened the cold storage her family had just rented with her key. The outer layer was wrapped with thick stainless steel, covering the entire door. The door handle was pulled up and then to the right. A gap was opened in the door, and the fan on the door began to blow strongly, slowing down the leakage of cold air from inside.
In fact, there were several thick plastic curtains behind this door, which were the main force in preventing the leakage of cold air.
Opening the door slightly, she extended the upper half of her body into the 100-square-meter cold storage.
The first feeling was cold. To ensure the quality of frozen goods, the temperature inside the cold storage was below minus twenty degrees Celsius.
The second feeling was spaciousness. The cold storage warehouse was almost twice the height of a residential building. One hundred square meters of floor space multiplied by twice the height of a residential building, and there were no partitions inside.
Taking a deep breath, she felt a cold current rush into her internal organs through her nose. She couldn't help but shiver.
“Liu Chen! Get out here!”
Liu Fang’s voice came from outside. Liu Chen then smiled and returned her body to the outside, where the temperature was thirty degrees.
Outside, a pallet of hand-grabbed pancakes had already been unloaded and neatly stacked, looking particularly attractive.
Liu Fang put on a green, thickened, and lengthened cotton coat, and said to Liu Chen standing by the door, “Okay, you’ve seen our new cold storage. I’ll go in and tell them where to put the goods. You can go back to the shop.”
“Okay, you go ahead.”
After saying that, Liu Chen walked down the stairs and found Wang Dong, who was standing several meters away from the cold storage, smoking.
Wang Dong had also been watching from outside the door while she was looking at the cold storage, and he had subtly asked about the size of her mother’s cold storage. Combined with the fact that a thousand pieces were delivered so quickly, Liu Chen had a guess.
“Brother Wang, my mother asked me to ask you if something is wrong.”
A seventeen-year-old girl always makes people let down their guard, making them think she is easily fooled. Obviously, Wang Dong was no exception. In his opinion, Sister Liu’s daughter was just a bit outgoing and had a sweet tongue when taking orders, so there was nothing to be wary of.
“Chenchen, even if your cold storage is filled with a thousand pieces of goods, it seems quite empty. How big is it?”
“I don’t know. My mom said the bigger the cold storage, the easier it is to store goods in the future.”
“Maybe it can hold ten thousand pieces?”
“I don’t know, maybe.”
While saying she didn’t know, Liu Chen had a clear guess in her mind…
Could this Wang Dong have stockpiled ten thousand pieces of goods?
Impossible, his personality…
Wait!
Liu Chen suddenly remembered that she had heard from an elder in her previous life that Wang Dong was once set up when he first started doing OEM and suffered a great loss, after which he became excessively cautious and never stockpiled goods, often causing distributors to urge the factory to ship.
Could it be…
The time Wang Dong was set up was this time?
Ten thousand pieces of goods could be consumed, but not now. If they were consumed now, it would mean Wang Dong didn't learn his lesson and might be tricked again next time. Secondly, if she easily solved Wang Dong’s problem without making him anxious, he wouldn't remember their kindness.
With this in mind, Liu Chen didn't linger. She simply said goodbye to Wang Dong and turned back to the shop.
After sitting down in the shop for less than half an hour, Liu Chen received a system reward.
“The first time the purchase volume exceeds one thousand pieces, you will receive a red zone lottery ticket.”