When the auspicious time came, the red cloth was unveiled and "Guangfeng Shui North and South Cargo Store" was opened.
The crowd of onlookers was buzzing, "North-South goods store? Selling goods from South and North?"
"It should be. I'm afraid that all the goods from the south of the Yangtze River have been transported here. I heard that the Crown Prince's wife has a fleet and a large ship that goes out to sea. Maybe there are people's belongings in it." The speaker's eyes were bright, and he wished he could squeeze in now.
Go and feast your eyes.
"Really? Then I have to go in and take a look."
"I'll go in and have a look too!"
Whether you want to buy it or not is one thing, but watching the fun is a must. And the leaflet doesn’t say you can’t go in to watch the fun.
Seeing everyone swarming towards the door, Yang Fu, who was watching all this from a height, was a little frightened, fearing that someone would fall down, causing a stampede and turning a good thing into a bad thing.
"How many people are here!" It must be that everyone in the city is here. Oh dear.
Yang Fu really didn't expect so many people to come to the new store when it opened.
Huo Xi was not worried at all, "The village has many soldiers and can maintain it."
She was very satisfied with this wave of momentum. Just now, she saw Jun Xiangjie and several of his confidants in the crowd from a high place. I am afraid that many merchants came to watch the fun today.
She originally wanted to unite various merchants to break the monopoly of the Jun family and destroy the Yiyantang dominated by his family, but unexpectedly she failed. After being suppressed by the Jun family, even the Yu family could not hold on.
Then I have to think of something else. Since I don’t want to give business to each family, and distribute Jun’s business to each family, and no family dares to ask for it, then I won’t want it.
Let her earn the money.
She doesn't want too much.
Zhuang soldiers maintained order at the door, and the crowd entered the gate in an orderly manner.
The yard has seven entrances. The rockery pavilion garden has been demolished, and small rooms have been combined with large rooms. The space of each entrance is large enough. The last two entrances are used as warehouses and residences for the stewards, and the first entrance is converted into a carriage house and a waiting room for guests.
There are enough chairs for guests to sit and relax, and there are free tea and snacks.
The remaining four entrances were all converted into shops.
There were a lot of people coming in, and they were led by the clerks to flow into the various entrances. Although there were many people coming, it didn't look crowded every time they entered, and each warehouse had enough space for customers to view and select goods.
As soon as everyone followed the guy in, they were dumbfounded from the moment they entered the gate.
This is a shop? Why is it different from what they saw? Every time they enter, there are different names, such as the north and south warehouse, the cloth and skin shop, the dry sauce room, the tea and wine room, the treasure room, the foreign goods room... and so on.
In the courtyard, each courtyard has different rooms, and various signs are hung at the door of each room.
The dry sauce room is also divided into a dry cured room, a sauce room, and even candied nuts, all of which are dedicated to a room.
Each room is full of shelves, with various products placed on the shelves. They are placed in different places according to their appearance, origin, and price. Each product has a brand on it, using pictures and text to introduce the product name, origin and price.
Even illiterate people can clearly know the selling price of each item by looking at the pictures.
I just can't understand it. There is a salesperson in each room. They are called sales guides. They say they help everyone choose goods.
The sales assistants wear the same clothes, and there are not only men but also women.
All of them are young and energetic, with bright eyes. They have bags on their bodies, which contain pens, paper, bamboo sticks and other items. They all have smiles on their face, and they are not judged by their clothes, their speech, or their wealth or poverty.
Look down on them.
Even if the guests didn't understand something they didn't understand, the waiters would take the trouble to explain things back and forth. The female waiters were even more patient and spoke softly, making people feel very comfortable.
It’s so new. Which shop in the city uses female waiters?
Moreover, these female clerks are very generous and don't care about the differences between men and women. They don't divide the customers into men and women. They are all buyers. This is just their job.
When female customers are accompanied by these female waiters, they feel even more comfortable, and their shopping experience has never been happier.
These guys will also help them choose more suitable products based on their actual situation. They will not specifically ask them to buy products that are in better quality or more expensive.
It makes people feel like they are bathed in the spring breeze.
The visitors were full of surprises.
I didn’t expect that the same thing could come from so many places of origin, varieties and quality. Just one fan could have so many different textures and shapes, which made everyone wonder.
For example, the round fan made of the same silk cloth, the south fan and the north fan are different, and the paintings are very different to laymen like them.
The southern fan is full of characters, animals, flowers and plants, and even the hair of the ladies can be seen, which is very vivid and delicate. The northern fan is full of landscapes, rough and majestic. And there is even a fan made of bamboo silk! That bamboo silk can actually
The chop was as fine as hair! So rare.
It's eye-opening.
What’s even stranger is yet to come.
For each item they selected, they could not pay on the spot or take it away. The salesman only gave them two bamboo sticks, one for the product and one for the quantity. They were asked to take the bamboo sticks to a special accounting room to settle the payment.
, after paying the money, get the delivery voucher, and then use this voucher to pick up the goods.
There is a special inspection office at the pick-up area to inspect the goods on the spot. If there is a problem with the goods, you can choose not to leave it and just go to the accounting room to get the money back. After the goods have been inspected to confirm that the quality and quantity are correct, they will not be returned after leaving the inspection room.
Responsible.
Would you say this is unusual?
The guests were so surprised that even the waiters in uniforms could stare at them for a long time. I heard that their different jobs could be seen by the cloth bags on their bodies.
Everyone was so fascinated by it that they couldn't bear to leave the warehouse or the yard.
If you get tired of shopping after leaving the warehouse, there are rest areas in each yard with free tea, where you can sit and rest, and discuss the products and prices with others.
Where else can this be found?
Everyone walked out of this warehouse and that one with a confused look on their faces, wandering around the various cargo rooms looking at the strange things.
You don’t need to carry heavy goods around, you only need to carry a bunch of various bamboo sticks. The bamboo sticks in each warehouse are different, with various heads, each one is exquisitely made, and you will know which one to choose based on the head.
What kind of goods.
If you get more tickets, the guys will give you a small basket to put them in if you are tired.
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Very good, the quality is good, and more importantly, the price is cheaper than elsewhere.
Not long after, all the guests who came in had a bunch of bamboo sticks in their baskets. Even the people who originally planned to come in just to watch the fun brought a basket of bamboo sticks.
Everyone is happy and reluctant to miss Shu.
Every time you enter the courtyard, there are various warehouses, with major categories and small categories. Finally, you enter the treasure shop, which also sells various handicrafts, jewelry and jade jewelry.
There are dozens of kinds of boxes, which are blinding. They are inlaid with gold, silver, pearls and emeralds. What’s the name of the shiny one? I heard that it was specially brought from the south of the Yangtze River. People who come to my court like it very much.
What is even more strange is what is called a foreign goods house. It is full of things belonging to the Ban people, as well as various items from neighboring countries in Yunnan, such as Pyu, Laos, Siam, and other countries and tribes in the Western Regions such as Xifan and Qiang.
Such a thing is simply too strange.
Is this something ordinary people can see?
In the shops outside, the clerks who sell jewelry and treasures have eyes on the top of their heads, and they cannot enter the shop without a certain identity. But now they can actually see room after room of foreign treasures.
God, it’s so worth it to come in!
An eye-opener and a feast for the eyes!
They just look at it and don't buy it, and the clerk doesn't chase them away. Where can they find this service? They can stay here for a day! No, with free tea, they can stay there for several days without going out!
And you don’t need them to carry all kinds of heavy goods back. If you buy more, they will deliver it to your door for free. God, this service is not worth the hard work of the clerk if you don’t buy one more item.
And when I went to the checkout room to check out, I was told that today is the first day with a 10% discount! There are also discounts and gifts with the flyer!
God, do my second uncle and three aunts still not know the news? I have to go back and tell them!
There are a lot of things here, you can buy everything you want without having to look around. The most important thing is that the price is cheap. It is also a shop opened by the wife of the prince, and the emperor has inscribed it. How can you deceive them?
There was wind under my feet and I ran outside.
Not long after, the first wave of people who came in to inquire about the news hurried out, and those who got the news from outside hurried over, and more and more people came.
"The old man from the Jun family is here too." Yang Fu cooed at Huo Xi and motioned for her to go and see. This old man, with the support of his concubine daughter, dared to assassinate his nephew and son-in-law? He wanted to go up and kick him.
foot!
Huo Xi saw it on the attic as soon as she entered the hospital and smiled, "Let him go." The old man thought she had no means and let him have a look.
The uncle and nephew looked at the crowds of people at the exit and entrance from the high building, and they felt very happy.
Yang Fu admired his niece very much. How did she grow such a head? How could she come up with such an idea and open such a shop?
He can now foresee the days when he will make a lot of money every day.
"Xi'er, how did you come up with the idea of opening such a shop? All the goods are sold together, like a big market. You can buy everything here. I've never seen it in other places.
Pass."
Huo Xi smiled, it's not wrong to call her shop a big market. There are markets everywhere, and there are many here in Yunnan. They are called "going to market" or "going to the street". Every department store is on display.
Competition from all over the world.
Later generations also called this business method a supermarket.
She just used it in advance to deal with the Jun family. What she drew from was not the supermarkets of later generations, but more the business model of Sun Chunyang Nanhuo Store during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.
Everyone thinks that supermarkets are a thing of foreigners. In fact, as early as the middle and late Ming Dynasty, we had a business model similar to supermarkets. At that time, Sun Chunyang of Suzhou was a scholar. After failing to pass the examination for a long time, he gave up his literary career and started a business in Nanjing.
Goods store.
Imitating the six rooms of the county government for officials, households, soldiers, punishments, rituals, and workers, six rooms were set up, including a north and south warehouse, a seafood room, a pickled meat room, a sauce room, a preserves room, and a candle room. This was the beginning of his pioneering work.
Warehouse display business model.
At its peak, even royal tributes were taken from him, making him a wealthy man in Suzhou.
Huo Xi learned from his model, and based on the goods he could get, he divided it into six rooms: the north and south goods rooms, the cloth room, the tea and wine room, the dry sauce room, the treasure room, and the foreign goods room.
She has a fleet at her disposal, and has the advantage of having channels to sell goods from the north to the south. It is also close to Piao State, which is rich in jade, and she also transports the treasures and jewelry styles from the south of the Yangtze River. There are also many noble people here, and there will be no shortage of business. And she
Her fleet can transport a large amount of foreign goods. Coupled with the newly opened trade routes to neighboring countries in the southwest, foreign goods warehouses will become her unique business.
Just one day after opening, Huo Xi's "Guangfeng Shui North and South Goods Store" was known to everyone in the city.