Back to the Republic of China to open a department store

The effect of the "Shimai Spring Fashion Conference" was astonishingly good, and even Luo Xiazhi himself did not expect the derived effects.

It's not a festival, nor a weekend. People lined up at the door early in the morning on the second day of the press conference, waiting to snap up the ready-to-wear that had been piling up because of slow sales.

The best selling style of women's clothing is the same style as "Little Feiyan" and "Phalaenopsis".Not only clothes, their handbags, shoes, and even accessories were sold out that day.

As for the best-selling men's clothing, it is the American-style casual jacket worn by Liang Shaolong.It is said that it has been fired to 100 yuan a piece on the black market.

Not to mention the pair of imported sunglasses, they were sold out at the Shimai glasses counter that day.In addition, foreign countries are now at war, and HNA is in a semi-suspended state. Only God knows when it will replenish, and there is really a price but no market.

This spring, in the alley where you live, if there is a young man wearing a lapel jacket, wearing American sunglasses and whistling, he will undoubtedly be the most beautiful boy in the entire alley.If his girlfriend wears a lavender stand-up collar dress at the same time, then they are not only the most fashionable couple, but also the one with the "best road (broad road)".People have to give a thumbs up and praise this buddy: friend, model (awesome)!

The most popular clothes were basically sold out on the third day, and the additional pre-orders forced Liang Shaolong to give up his plan of wearing jackets to walk all over the streets of Shanghai every day, and returned to Suzhou to hurry up production.

On the other hand, the turbulent crowd shocked the tellers of Shimai Department Store who were used to seeing big scenes.

Crowds collapsed the glass counters on the second day of the show, and the moment the mall opened its doors, hundreds of men and women ran to the wardrobes, waving banknotes, to snatch clothes they had spotted in brochures.Lest one step behind will be bought away.

The salesperson, who was supposed to provide one-on-one personal service, fell into a state of confusion, running between the customer, the cashier and the warehouse.

And the cashiers in charge of the wardrobe counter were also confused by the huge amount of bills. Hundreds of orders rushed to the window at once, and they didn't know which one to deal with first.

The usual deserted wardrobe counter was now in such a chaotic situation that the floor manager had to mobilize staff from other counters to help deal with it.

Because the fitting room and the checkout counter were too noisy, there were even more than one thefts of scumbags and hooligans who used the excuse of going to try on clothes, and finally slipped away without paying.The salesperson didn't find out that the goods were missing until the night when he was taking inventory, and finally he had to pay for it himself.

For such a disorderly situation, Luo Xiazhi knocked his head, and finally thought of the cashier method of old department stores on Nanjing Road in Shanghai in the 90s and [-]s that he saw in documentaries in the past, facing the influx of passengers from all over the country—— Wire cashier method.

That night, he ordered someone to raise the base of the cashier counter of the wardrobe desk, and directly raised the cashier counter that was originally level with the ground to more than two meters.Then, with the cash register as the center point, two steel wires are drawn above each wardrobe table to connect with the cash register, and three or four iron clips are hung on each steel wire.

After the customer confirms the product to be purchased, the salesperson fills out the pick-up form and payment receipt by hand, and clips the cash and receipts to the clip.Then, just stretch out your hand and push it lightly, and you can see the clip "swish" and fly towards the high cash register.

The cashiers sitting in the high cash register take off the clip, collect the money according to the price on the receipt, give change, and clip the issued invoice, change and bill of lading to another "return" wire , and push it back to the counter.

In this way, the salesperson can complete the order without leaving the counter.The cashier handles the clips one by one according to the order of arrival, and will not lose sight of one another, which greatly improves the efficiency of receiving money and picking up goods.

A few days later, all the citizens who came to Shimai Department Store to buy ready-to-wear clothes raised their heads and opened their mouths, looking in amazement at the spider-like barbed wire above their heads.

On "Spider's Web", a dozen clips fly back and forth along the track, making people dizzy.

After hearing the crisp sound of iron clips "arriving at the station", the salesperson smiled and handed over the clothes and change he had tried on before, without even needing them to go to the cashier to pay - this is simply amazing up!

After the "steel wire cash register network" was installed, the customers who came to buy clothes in the first few days rushed in "murderously" to grab the clothes, paid the money "with a look of confusion", and finally took it "ignorantly". Shopping bag left.

The guests kept their heads up all the way until they walked out, staring at the clips and banknotes flying around with their mouths wide open, completely shocked by the scene in front of them.

Some people even took their clothes and were reluctant to leave. They just stood there in a daze, seeing their necks sore, and their eyes were full of addiction before they left.

After a week of "trial operation", after confirming that this equipment was effective and greatly improved the efficiency of collection, Luo Xiazhi simply promoted it to all the counters on the floor.

"Shenbao" also went to the department store for an exclusive interview, saying that they have "counters that are higher than pawnshops, and money is flying all over the sky."And this "steel wire cash register net" was endowed with a vivid nickname by Shanghai residents - Qianmantian.

In the years since then, tourists from other places have come to Shimailai one after another, just to witness the spectacle of "flying banknotes all over the sky".

After this campaign, not only the concept of ready-to-wear has been promoted in Shanghai, but the semi-annual "new product launch conference" has also become a reserved item of Shimai Department Store.

Not only "Feilong Garment Factory", but also domestic and foreign clothing companies of other brands have joined this team one after another.

In the next decade or so, the major domestic garment factories and designers used their clothing to enter Shimai Department Store and participate in Shimai press conferences as a selling point and glory.

Some rich and powerful garment factories, such as Feilong Garment Factory and Rongshi Garment Factory, actually set up their own clothing model team to tour the wardrobe shows in department stores across the country. Rorschach didn't even think about it.

Unknowingly, Shimai Department Store has become the birthplace of fashion trends in Shanghai, and its "spring summer" and "autumn winter" two-season press conferences have become popular indicators in the whole country and even in Northeast Asia.

After "Paris", "Milan" and "New York", "Shanghai Fashion Week" has also entered the stage of world trends.Chinese design and Shanghai design have attracted the attention of the world with their unique style, and also promoted the development of domestic textile industry.

Under the attack of Japan's "Oriental cloth" and Europe's "Western cloth", the domestic textile industry has torn out an industrial road in such a peculiar form, which is really surprising.

The textile industry in the south of the Yangtze River occupied half of the country's industry at that time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the "root of the country".This is said to be unintentional, but in fact it was a deliberate move, which gradually promoted a "domestic product movement" in the textile industry.

Here, Shimai Department Store has achieved great success through the sales of ready-made clothing, but the Modern Department Store over there has fallen into an embarrassing situation of insufficient inventory due to the obstruction of sea freight.

"Xiaoxia, fortunately we have listened to your words and adjusted our import and export policies in time. Otherwise, we would have nothing to sell like Modern Modern across the street. It would be too embarrassing."

"The Li family is only temporarily stretched. According to the shrewdness of their brothers, I am afraid that they will soon use the way of Hong Kong to switch to export business."

Luo Xiazhi sat opposite him and said.

As the weather got warmer little by little, under the "feeding" and "supplementation" spared no effort by everyone, especially Gu Hanlin and others, his health gradually improved.The little beast's sunken cheeks gradually became more plump, finally causing Bai Fenghuang to let go of a heart that had been hanging on for a long time.

Sitting in the general manager's office of Luo's Commercial Bank, Luo Yunze looked at the first quarter financial statements of Shimai and Luo's Commercial Bank, and nodded with satisfaction.

The early Shimai Department Store, like the modern department store, used mid-to-high-end imported goods as its biggest selling point. The so-called "Global Department Store" collected goods from all over the world, and domestic products were just embellishments.

Today, more than 70.00% of Shimai's goods are domestically produced, including daily necessities, clothing, cosmetics, stationery and other fields.Only some high-end products that cannot be produced in China have to rely on foreign imports.

Not only that, but Roche, which has always been mainly import-oriented, also adjusted its strategy in time, and gradually increased the share of exports since the end of last year.Sure enough, it has gained huge benefits in the western market where materials are scarce.

After seeing this change, other commercial firms and domestic manufacturers have also joined the production and export of domestic products, but the first pot of gold and the largest market share have been indisputably eaten by the Luo family. .

And all this is because of his "son"'s advanced vision and prediction!As expected, "a tiger father has no dogs", seeing Luo Xiazhi being so promising, the pride in Luo Yunze's heart was beyond words.

But no matter what, the "father-son relationship" between him and Luo Xiazhi is a secret that can never be known to outsiders.His paternal love has no place to vent, and he can only replace it with the simplest behavior——

"This, you take it."

Luo Yunze opened the drawer, took out a document bag from it, and carefully pushed it in front of Luo Xiazhi.

"Deed?"

When Luo Xiazhi opened the file, he saw two huge words on it.

Luo Yunze actually gave him an entire garden on Haig Road!

"Here... God..."

Haige Road is the famous Huashan Road in the future, and the adjacent Wukang Road is one of the famous scenic spots in old Shanghai that foreign tourists must check in when they come to Shanghai.

Luo Xiazhi looked at the address of the garden, and compared it with the memory of his "previous life"—isn't this one of the famous "Ten Old Houses" in Shanghai!

This garden has been associated with a series of dazzling names in history, but now, his brother gave it to him so lightly!

"Maid, the car is already bought. You can live there whenever you want. But your mother definitely wants you to live in the 'Luo Mansion'. Whatever you want, the house is given to you anyway, so you can do whatever you want deal with."

Luo Yunze waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

A villa on Chongming Island, and a garden house on Huashan Road—as expected of a father and son, it seems that the men of the Luo family like to express their feelings by giving away houses.

Holding the house deed, Luo Xiazhi couldn't help thinking wildly, if these two houses were put in 202X, it would take hundreds of millions to buy them...

"Master, third master."

Yin Wen knocked on the door and walked in, "Second Master sent a telegram from Tokyo, and it said 'urgent telegram'."

"Oh, it's so rare that the second child actually thinks of us."

Luo Yunze smiled mockingly, and picked up the telegram, "'Urgent telegram'? What's the 'urgent'? I see, eight out of ten times it's money."

Luo Xiazhi was also quite speechless about this second brother whom he had never met so far.

The second brother Luo Muze, who theoretically studied at Tokyo Imperial University, should have graduated and returned to China five years ago.

Who knew that after graduating, this guy neither chose to continue his studies, nor returned to his country to help his family's business. Instead, he traveled around Japan and became a leisurely swinger.Even when Luo Zhenhua died, he didn't come back to attend the funeral, but sent a telegram to express his condolences.Luo Yunze was so angry that he tore up the telegram on the spot.

There was a period of time the year before last when he asked for money so fiercely that the members of the Luo family thought that he had acquired the bad habit of asking for flowers or gambling in Japan.It was only after many inquiries that I found out that this person was tired of playing in Japan, so he simply went to Europe for a long-distance trip.

Compared with him, Liang Shaolong, a former playboy and now an industrialist, is simply a good son who moved China.

"Yo, big news."

Luo Yunze shook the telegram, "Guess what it said—your second brother, the most 'honorable' 'Second Master' of our Luo family, is coming back from Japan at the end of this month!"

"Second brother is going back to China?"

Luo Xiazhi said with emotion, "Speaking of which, I have forgotten (don't know) what the second brother looks like."

"When he left home, you were only over ten years old. Don't talk about you, I'm afraid he is standing in front of me now, and I can't even recognize him!"

With a "snap", Luo Yunze slapped the telegram on the desk heavily, and sighed bitterly.

After leaving Luo's Firm, Luo Yunze got into the car and was going back to Shimai Department Store for the manager's meeting in the afternoon.It didn't take long for the car to drive to the main road, when I heard the noise of the crowd in the distance, the traffic flow gradually stopped, and the horn sounded one after another. I don't know if there was a car accident ahead.

A few minutes later, the car was completely lying down, and Ah Le got out of the car very cleverly and went to the front to check the situation.After a while, he walked over in a daze, leaned over to the car window, and knocked on the car glass.

"Young master, get out of the car. Let's get a rickshaw and go back by yourself. We can't go ahead. I'll drive the car back after the team of xxx is gone."

"What? What are they doing?"

Just now a newsboy passed by the car, and Luo Xiazhi bought a newspaper out of boredom, and Ah Le came back before he opened it.

"What objected to President Yuan's signing on October 21, or [-]...I didn't understand it. Anyway, it was against the president in the north."

A Le touched the back of his head and said uncertainly.

"Sixty-eight..."

Luo Xiazhi gasped, and the next second, he suddenly thought of something and opened the newspaper.

Sure enough, the front page of the newspaper used the largest font and clearly read "Against traitors and thieves signing <21 Articles> for the loss of power and humiliation of the country, those who betray China's interests will die!" "

Luo Xiazhi's hand holding the newspaper trembled. The inevitable thing he had been worrying about finally happened.

"It's really a coincidence that the second brother returns to China at this time."

Putting down the newspaper, Luo Xiazhi fell into deep thought.

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At the end of May, gulls and birds shuttled and danced among the bright foreign buildings on the banks of the Huangpu River.Amidst the long whistle of the whistle, the huge cruise ship moved towards the shore.

Luo Yunze and the whole family looked at Luo Muze who was slowly coming down from the side of the boat.

"Little mother, elder brother, younger brother..."

Against the sun, a thin man in an English suit and carrying a suitcase walked up to them, showing a warm smile.

Contrary to Luo Xiazhi's expectations, this second brother who was already a "flower-flower-boy-son" image in his mind now looks like a handsome man who can fully bear the words "Pianpianzi". man.

Counting this second elder brother is now 35 years old, maybe because of his fair complexion, he can't tell that he is a man who has passed his age.

His appearance is completely different from Luo Yunze and Luo Xiazhi's. His pair of slender willow eyebrows and the same narrow eyes make him look like a figure from a Japanese Ukiyo-e painting.Perhaps in order to conceal this overly feminine appearance, he also wore a pair of round tortoiseshell eyes, somewhat softening his frail temperament.

With a slender face and a slender figure, this second brother looks like a boy even more than Luo Xiazhi from behind.I don't know if it is born like this, or if I went to Japan, I ate too much Dongying rice to grow like this.

Anyway, it's completely different from the wretched-looking dude that Luo Xiazhi imagined in his mind.

"Brother, your 'Shimai Department Store' is very famous, and I often hear it mentioned in Japan."

The three brothers shared a car to go home.Not long after getting in the car, Luo Muze complimented Luo Xiazhi, "When I left home, you were just a junior high school student, not as tall as my shoulders. Now you have become the king of department stores in China. It's unbelievable."

His tone of voice is also slow and waxy.

The Shanghai dialect accent combined with the Japanese tone makes people feel fresh and weird.It is completely different from the Tianjin native Fan Dongli who also came back from studying in Japan but still maintains a crisp local accent.

"Brother, brother, why don't we go home first. How about you take me to the department store to open my eyes?"

Luo Muze said slowly but could not refuse.

The author has something to say: Regarding the wire cash register method, I saw it when I was very young. At that time, [-]% of them were still in kindergarten or just in primary school.In the past, every time I went to Nanjing Road Department Store, I had to watch the spectacle of banknotes flying around for a long time before returning home.It is said to be a special product in Shanghai. I don’t know if department stores in other places will have it.

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