Lao Hu Ting carefully learned how to scan QR codes, how to use the cash register, how to clear, how to settle...
I prepared a lot of them, but I never expected that there was no code scanning gun.
Seeing that he was still looking, the middle-aged customer spoke: "I haven't scanned the code to find out the price. There is a price on the shelf, four and a half yuan."
After saying that, he took out his mobile phone, and with a beep, a computer-synthesized female voice sounded throughout the supermarket: "WeChat payment is 4.5 yuan."
After that, he left gracefully.
Qin Xiaobao went to the shelf and took a look. Indeed, almost all the products had price tags on them. Some of them were blurred. It was estimated that they had been used for a long time.
"I know what we are going to do." Hu Ge found a book with prices written in categories: "I want to endorse it."
"How can I carry so many things?" Qin Xiaobao squatted down and picked up an apple: "This has no price tag, how much will it cost?"
Hu Ge finally asked: "Six yuan and a pound."
"Okay, fortunately, those scales from decades ago were hard to read." Qin Xiaobao found an electronic scale on the side: "I guess when we leave, we won't be able to memorize all the prices. How can we remember them clearly?
What is important is where it is. Check to see if there is a price tag. Let’s fill in the blurry or unmarked items first.”
"Okay." Lao Hu couldn't find a better way for the time being. He had to memorize hundreds of products, large and small, and there was no need to do other things.
Seeing that they had found something to do, the director quietly left.
The monitoring room is right next door. Normally, unless the batteries are replaced, no staff will show up, leaving everything to the two of them.
Lao Hu took a bunch of things here and started looking for prices. Qin Xiaobao was not idle either. He went to the back room to find a broom and mop and started cleaning.
I don't know if it was the hot weather or some other reason, but in these forty minutes, I received a customer, a cigarette buyer, who also quoted the price and bought something.
While Qin Xiaobao was doing hygiene, he saw some grandmothers passing by the door of the store. After he smiled at them, they said a few words in an incomprehensible dialect and walked away.
After a while of busy work, the two sat down again.
Hu Ge's eyes kept glancing away and he was still muttering silently.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm taking note of the approximate location of the product." He turned around and said, "Hey, do you feel that you've only been here for an hour and you're already very tired."
Qin Xiaobao nodded, the phone rang, he got up and walked over: "Hello!"
"Why hasn't the rice been delivered yet?" A voice came from the other end of the phone: "There is also a barrel of oil."
"I'm sorry, what's your name, and where are you sending it to?"
Seeing Qin Xiaobao's eyes asking for help, Hu Ge remembered: "I just looked through the book and there are records in it. Let me look for it."
"My surname is Wu, and I live next to the primary school."
Hu Ge flipped through the notebook quickly, while Qin Xiaobao talked about other things and wasted his time. At this time, there was a perfect tacit understanding, which made the staff in the monitoring room next door laugh.
Fortunately, Lao Hu had an impression and quickly found the place. After checking, there was no mistake.
"Hello, we will send you there right away."
After hanging up the phone, Qin Xiaobao felt that his back was wet. It was a bit hot in the supermarket, and there were only fans above and beside his head.
"No way, grandma is already seventy years old, so she still has to be responsible for delivering goods?" Hu Ge couldn't understand.
"Someone should help." Qin Xiaobao has no time to worry about this at the moment: "They said they would send rice and oil, but they didn't say how much they would cost. Should we just carry a bag over there?"
Just as the two were considering whether to ask for help from the sidelines, a young man wearing glasses walked in: "Grandma Wu..."
When he saw Qin Xiaobao and Hu Ge, he was completely stunned: "You, you..."
"Hello!" Qin Xiaobao explained again that they were only here to cover for ten days and grandma was on vacation. It is expected that they would have to say it many times in the future.
Once we communicated, the person who came here was a big help.
The young man's name is Xiao Fan, and he is a clerk in the township. He is both a customer and Grandma Wu's helper. He usually comes over after get off work to make deliveries and other things.
There is a tricycle at the door, which is exclusive to Xiao Fan, which also solves Qin Xiaobao's doubts.
Xiao Fan walked to the corner with familiarity, and the two celebrities followed him like followers: "The grains, oils, rice and noodles given to the five-guarantee households are all sent from the county. They are placed in the store twice a month, and they can be collected or delivered at the same time.
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As he spoke, he took down the book hanging on the wall and said, "Here are the details. There are seven households in total. They all have the same things. Just make a check when you take them away."
"Understood." Qin Xiaobao nodded: "If you are free, can you come with me to see him off? We only arrived in the afternoon and are not familiar with the village."
"Of course!" Xiao Fan agreed happily.
With this arrangement, Lao Hu was naturally in charge of the supermarket, Qin Xiaobao took the initiative to carry a bag of rice, and Xiao Fan walked out with a barrel of oil.
Along the way, the two kept chatting, mainly Qin Xiaobao asked questions and Xiao Fan was responsible for answering.
The town's permanent population is estimated to be less than a thousand at this time, and it's not far from the site, only half an hour's drive away. Some people like to go to the county town to buy things, so there aren't particularly many supermarket customers.
When it's good, the turnover is only two to three hundred, which are all cheap things.
The old lady is mainly because she can't sit still. She has been in small shops almost all her life and is used to it.
I heard that in the early days, I just sold some oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, and then gradually expanded, relying on the supermarket, I raised three children.
After her husband passed away, her children often came to visit her, hoping to live together in the city.
The old lady was in good health and was used to living in the countryside. There was no one in the village who didn't know her and she didn't want to leave.
The child couldn't help it, so he could only come often and ask the neighbors to help take care of it.
Qin Xiaobao also noticed that there was cash in the cashier drawer and a QR code on the table. I believe it was for the convenience of the elderly in the village.
There are still many people who don’t know how to use QR codes and use elderly phones.
Moreover, sometimes vegetable farmers would put their own vegetables in front of the supermarket and ask Grandma Wu to sell them on her behalf, and the business was also booming.
The delivery was quite simple. Under the leadership of Xiao Fan, we quickly found a place and carried the rice oil into our house.
Returning to the supermarket again, Lao Hu was a little worried.
Today is Friday, and many children who go to school in the county have returned. This is the bus stop. Many children will choose to come in to buy some snacks before going home.
In particular, Hu Ge was recognized by the older children, and the supermarket suddenly became very lively.
When he saw the two people coming back, he seemed to have seen a savior and waved quickly, and Xiao Fan was no exception and came to help.
When the children left, the three of them let out a sigh of relief at the same time and smiled when they looked at each other.
Qin Xiaobao sighed: "It's really not easy to open a supermarket!!!"