Back to the Republic of China to open a department store

"Falling flowers cover the moonlight,

Borrow a cup and recommend Fengtai. "

On the record player next to the sofa, there is a Cantonese opera "Xiang Yao".

Princess Changping's mournful voice was like weeping and complaining, like strands of thread.

There are a lot of Cantonese living in Shanghai, and there are Cantonese restaurants everywhere inside and outside the concession. The famous movie queen Ruan Lingyu is also from Xiangshan, Guangdong.

Although the two Li brothers are 15 years apart in age, their faces are almost identical.Slightly chubby cheeks, double-raised chin, not tall but lean body, and the unique deep-set browbones, slightly larger eyes, and almost completely black pupils, revealing shrewdness. of gloss.

"Brother, this move of yours completely fooled the two brothers of the Luo family, hahaha."

Lee Shau Kee was smoking a pipe, squinting his eyes and laughing loudly.

"These Shanghainese feel that they have been in the mall for a long time and have encountered all kinds of scenes. Unexpectedly, we can use their well-designed sales strategies to attack them in turn."

Li Zhaoye responded with a smile, while casually flipping open the newspaper delivered early this morning.

He really wanted to see how the third young master of the Luo family, a business prodigy praised by Shanghai people, planned to fight back against them.

"What's this? A one-dollar discount? Don't know what you're getting?"

Looking at the Shimai department store advertisement published in the "Times", the Li brothers looked at each other in dismay.

On the advertisement page, there was a picture of a zongzi-shaped bag, with the words: Dragon Boat Festival Lucky Bag in four large characters, and next to it were a few lively characters: One Yuan One Yuan, Dragon Boat Special Offer, all one-yuan lucky bags are on sale.One yuan may buy five catties of wool, or two vinyl discs, all of which are worth the money, come and try your luck!

What is a lucky bag?

The point is how can they copy it?

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There is a saying in Shanghai that "Business clears up on Monday".

After all, it was the beginning of the week, and everyone was running around for food rations. Those who had the leisure and time to stroll the streets were, after all, a minority.And this part of people is still immersed in the aftertaste of the party, salon or dance last night, and may not even wake up from the hangover.

But early this morning, at the gate of "Shimai Department Store", there was already a long queue. When I looked closely, there were men and women, old and young, all holding up the banknotes in their hands. It seems that it is actually "unkempt".

"Yang Gelu, what's the matter?"

Two clerks in suits and ties, with briefcases in their pockets, were hurrying past Shimai's door. Seeing that the counter had been placed at the door, they couldn't help asking curiously.

"Who knows? What's going on this early in the morning. Zhang Gelu, I told Nong that my wife said in the past few days that a new department store will be opened there soon, and there are many discounts, even cheaper than Shimai. Maybe Shimai's Third Young Master Luo can't sit still anymore, and he's starting to do some sort of 'flower head essence'."

"The third young master of the Luo family is a formidable person. He must have done something interesting. He's going to be a Shanghainese again."

The two were laughing and preparing to continue their journey when they saw a middle-aged man walking towards them carrying two big cloth bags. The cloth bags were quite cute, shaped like triangular zongzi, and the green bags were covered with A "Fu" character is pasted on the red cloth.

"Sir, please tell me what this is? Is it a new gadget from Shimai Department Store?"

"This is the 'lucky bag' released by Shimai today."

The man didn't mind being stopped, but instead happily raised the bag in his hand, "One dollar each, and I didn't know what was in it when I bought it, just like buying a lottery ticket. Hehe, my luck is pretty good. Two dollars. Look at this..."

The man opened the two bags separately, and the two clerks moved their heads curiously.

"In this bag, look—three pieces of soap, five towels, and the most important thing is a pen! Where can I buy a pen for a dollar? My second child just started middle school this year, so it's the best gift for him."

"The style of the pen is a bit old, but the brand is pretty good."

Yang Geli said matter-of-factly, "One yuan is definitely worth it. When I bought it a few years ago, it cost more than one yuan."

"And this bag, this bag is amazing, my wife will die of joy when she sees it."

The man opened the bag with a smile.

"Five balls of wool, pure wool, very soft, feel it. And this one - a child's coat! The size is a bit too big, but I will ask the tailor at the entrance of the alley to collect it for me. .One dollar, all of these are only one dollar. Also, don’t say this bag is pretty, take it home for the festival!”

The man said, and left happily.

The two white-leading gentlemen looked at each other, and in the next second they strode away and ran towards the entrance of Shimai Department Store.

"Don't miss it when you pass by. Come and have a look, take a look, all the products cost one dollar. You can't buy it for one dollar, and you can't be fooled. Buy it and leave it, no refund or exchange, pay at the counter Banknotes. One yuan is a lucky bag, and there is everything in the lucky bag, come and try your luck!"

It turned out that Uncle Xiang, who sold southern goods at the counter, was dragged to the door today to yell. He is from Shandong, with a strong body and a loud voice. He holds a big horn in his hand, and the yelling can be heard across the road.

"Ah!! Look what I bought? I wanted to buy this American nylon stocking last winter, and I got it today hahaha! What is this? Lipstick? Is this lipstick? It's Max Factor's! You made it, you made it."

A young lady started laughing after opening the lucky bag she just bought, causing the people next to her to cover their mouths and look at her "crazy".

"It's due in half a year...it's okay, it's only one dollar anyway, so I'll go on a date tomorrow with this on."

The woman took a closer look at the expiry date on the package in her mouth, and found that it would soon expire, but even so, it didn't matter.

Please, a dollar too!Can't buy even a piece of domestic rouge for a dollar?

Happy happy, happy to die!

She immediately took out another ocean from her wallet, "Another lucky bag!"

"Ah, look what I bought? This is Boss Mei's out-of-print record! I went to the music store to look for it for a long time, but I didn't find it here, and it only sells for one yuan! My God! Is this a photo of 'Kirin Boy'? How come I don't know when this album of famous Peking opera masters will be released!"

A movie fan friend was so happy that he almost fainted.

"What is this? Last year's moon cake gift box? Or three... Now it's the Dragon Boat Festival and let me eat moon cakes. Forget it, you can still eat it before it expires, and the iron shell looks good with needlework. No, I want more try again!"

A housewife gritted her teeth, turned around and made another investment.

However, there are also those who are not lucky and unsatisfactory.

"Hey, what's the matter, I got a woman's head flower. There are also women's gloves. I don't even have a girlfriend, so why do I want these? Scam money!"

"Bah! Smoked a pack of cigarettes? What the hell! What are these, tie clips, and men's cufflinks. I don't even have a boyfriend. What do you mean by giving me this?"

The two young men and women got the lucky bags and stood aside and began to complain. After hearing each other's conversation, they looked at the bags in each other's hands.

"This gentleman..."

"This lady..."

The two then happily exchanged bags.

Maybe, in exchange for something else? (#^.^#)

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze. There are a lot of things. We are going to hold this event for a week. Don't get excited, there are still a lot of good things!"

Seeing more and more people queuing up to buy the lucky bags, the scene got a little out of control, so Uncle Xiang simply jumped onto the piled up boxes.

"You can only buy two yuan for one time in line. If you want to buy again, please queue again! Sir, please be conscious. I see that you have already bought four bags. If you want to buy them, go to the line again, otherwise the people behind will have to wait." When will you wait? Let’s all show some understanding to each other? Over there, don’t gather people there, and don’t block other people who want to exchange bags. Please go to the side to exchange.”

Looking at the bustling scene downstairs, Zheng Jiesen nodded in admiration, "Third Young Master, that's amazing. Look at the 'shaggy head' below. The people in line have turned three corners."

Luo Xiazhi let out a haha, and thought: What do you think, the magic power of this "lucky bag" is far-reaching, and after more than 100 years, grabbing a lucky bag in a department store will be a repertoire.

Speaking of which, the reason why I came to this world is because I participated in the reopening ceremony of an old department store with my mother, and unfortunately encountered a stampede accident in order to grab the lucky bag for the opening...

Tsk, it's really hard to look back.

"According to this momentum, the old inventory accumulated in our warehouse can be cleared in almost a week."

Jason Zheng said excitedly.

Shimai's warehouse is located on the first basement floor. Although the business has been good these years, there are inevitably slow-moving and expired products.In addition, more and more Chinese and foreign goods have been imported, which has caused the underground warehouse to be overwhelmed and can only be transferred outward.

What Luo Xiazhi meant was that it was enough to prepare three days of movable inventory in the entire department store, so it was too wasteful to use every inch of land as a warehouse.

When he first rented the land of Shimai Department Store from Shatong, he also rented a piece of land next to the racetrack. Second-hand landlord money.

Now, according to his intention, the inventory in the underground warehouse is cleared first, and then the rented warehouse is taken back and used as Shimai's own warehouse.

Although the price of the land in the racetrack hall will be a prime location in gold 100 years later, it is still acceptable now, and it is not a pity to use it as a warehouse.Moreover, it is also very close to the department store. It takes only 2 minutes to drive there. It is very convenient to pick up and store goods.

According to Luo Xiazhi's thinking, at least the land will not be used until the third phase of the department store plan is launched.

The second issue...

Rorschach looked up.

The sound of construction work on the other side of the road and the coming and going of cement trucks covered up the movement here. Except for the employees of Shimai, no one seemed to notice that the roof was also under construction recently.

"By the way, young master, what should I do if there are still many large items that cannot be put into the lucky bag? Such as bicycles, outdated audio record players, and many musical instruments."

Speaking of which, these are the bulk of the warehouse space.

"Then let's hold a 'one yuan auction' event on the weekend."

Luo Xiazhi smiled and said, "Tomorrow, the atrium will be vacated, and the things that were originally on display will be removed first. Polish those bicycles and accordions, tie them with ribbons, and write a notice next to them: All products start at one yuan, and weekends are welcome." Come to bid."

"Absolutely! There are already a lot of people on weekends, and it will definitely attract a lot of people!"

Shanghainese, I like this kind of new activity the most.It is certain that there will be more people bidding in the auction, and the original price of the product can be auctioned!

"In a while, you write a copy and send it to the advertising departments of various newspapers, asking them to give us a warm-up from today. I want to see if Modern Department Store dares to use the latest inventory to give me this 'one dollar' arena."

Luo Xiazhi pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said proudly.

The author has something to say: "X leather shoes" is an authentic old Shanghai saying, which is basically unheard now. When I was a child, I heard someone call my father a "leather shoe". Today's young people probably don't know it.Leather shoes refer to male white-collar workers who work in foreign firms, foreign commercial firms, and banks. Because they wear suits and leather shoes every day, they call each other "leather shoes", which is more playful and foreign than the word "Mr."

I'm finally home. Hey, I walked the streets for six hours today, from Sixing Warehouse to Nanjing East Road, to the Bund, Waibaidu Bridge, and then walked back to Nanjing Road.It is really a sea of ​​people, and the forward speed is almost the same as the crawling speed.

God, I have to visit three times! !