Chapter 302

After the banquet, Sugihara Aisa said goodbye to the drunk crowd and took the car back home.

Not long after she got home, she heard the sound of the phone ringing.

Who would call so late?

She was a bit confused, but still picked up the phone directly.

Just after picking it up, a gentle female voice came from the receiver.

"Is this Miss Sugihara Aisa of Yamazaki Bookstore?"

Sugihara Aisa was stunned, but quickly responded: "Yes, who are you?"

"I am Satake Maki, I have cooperated with you before."

Hearing this name, Sugihara Aisa subconsciously recalled it.

At that time, for Akiwara Yuto's new book signing event, she seemed to have cooperated with this Miss Satake.

But so late, why did the other party call?

She was a bit confused, but still exchanged pleasantries and then asked her question indirectly.

Satake Maki responded with a smile: "Miss Sugihara, have you considered changing jobs? Still working in bookstore-related work."

Sugihara Aisa didn't expect this intention, but she weighed it and planned to refuse.

The bookstore industry is now in a downturn, it's good that she has a stable job at Yamazaki Bookstore.

After all, for everything at Yamazaki Bookstore, she is an old employee and knows the bookstore's business inside out.

If she rashly jumps to a new enterprise, who knows what consequences there might be.

Some of her "old friends" at the time jumped jobs rashly, and as a result, they became unemployed in the blink of an eye.

But just when she intended to refuse, Satake Maki continued: "Miss Sugihara, the annual salary for this job is 8 million, please consider it."

Hearing this number, Sugihara Aisa, who originally intended to refuse, immediately hesitated.

In Tokyo, the average salary of an ordinary bookstore clerk is only 3 million a year; even for an official old clerk like her with many years of work experience, the salary is only 5 million.

And the originally promised salary increase was not mentioned again by the store manager because of the industry downturn.

She weighed the amount and said in a polite tone: "Miss Satake, may I ask what work I need to do?"

Satake Maki said with a smile: "It's still the same work content as your previous work, just that the work intensity is greater and the business is broader."

Sugihara Aisa was a bit confused, but still indicated she knew.

Then she asked clearly about the time and place of the interview and hung up the phone.

After putting down the phone, she clenched her fists lightly.

This is an opportunity, she must grasp it well!

Three days later at 9 am, Sugihara Aisa specially asked for leave, changed into professional attire, and came to the interview location, which was a conference room on the third floor of the Tsutaya Bookstore Association.

But in this conference room, she saw an unexpected person.

Akiwara Yuto, why is he here?!

Although confused, Sugihara Aisa quickly remembered her identity, immediately calmed down, and submitted her resume.

Then she bowed, "Hello, I am Sugihara Aisa who came to apply, and I have 8 years of work experience at Yamazaki Bookstore."

Akiwara Yuto still had an impression of this "acquaintance," so he nodded with a smile and then flipped through her resume.

These paper things had been seen in the email before; what he most wanted to know was the other party's judgment on the future development trend of bookstores.

After all, his plan later is to build a bookstore brand all over the country.

The person executing this plan must have a clear and flexible mind.

"Miss Sugihara, as far as I know, during your tenure as the person in charge of literary books at Yamazaki Bookstore, the sales volume of literary books increased by 30 percentage points. Can you tell me how you did it?"

Sugihara Aisa organized her thoughts and began to talk.

"What I did was just to maximize the saving of readers' time. Or rather, I just let most readers see the books they most wanted to buy."

Akiwara Yuto became interested and continued to ask: "Please elaborate."

"Generally speaking, the patience of most readers is very limited; they often don't stay in the book area for most of the time.

So I put the most famous or popular books on the market in the most conspicuous position, so that they can see them at the first time.

Besides that, I also put up a weekly book recommendation on the wall to attract readers' interest."

Akiwara Yuto asked: "Then for those unpopular books, how do you handle them?"

According to Sugihara Aisa's claim, she would put popular books in conspicuous positions, but for some readers who want to find specific books, it is not particularly friendly.

Sugihara Aisa replied: "Generally put one or two copies, insert them into the upper or lower layers of the bookshelf, and if no one buys them for a long time, I will ask the distributor to return them later."

She paused and added: "I think, since these readers need specific books, they should also have more patience; if they can't find them, they can go to other bookstores to find them."

Akiwara Yuto glanced at her, "I remember many bookstore clerks' slogans, aren't they claiming to treat all readers equally? What do you think about this."

Sugihara Aisa showed a bitter smile, "Teacher Akiwara, a bookstore is a business after all, we must maintain profits. If the bookstore profit is too low, then it might not continue to operate later, isn't that the loss of all readers?"

Hearing these words, Akiwara Yuto showed a satisfied smile.

He was worried that the other party was that kind of pure idealist, constantly advocating treating all readers equally.

The second-hand chain bookstore he is preparing to open later, a very important point is book placement and book procurement.

If he found a stubborn person who insisted on stocking unpopular books and giving up important display positions, it would undoubtedly destroy the overall profit of the bookstore.

Someone like Sugihara Aisa who knows how to maximize interests is his best choice.

"Miss Sugihara, ask a question, if you were to operate a chain bookstore, what method would you use to increase its profit."

Sugihara Aisa thought deeply for a while and then said: "Teacher Akiwara, my suggestion may not fit the current market, but I would adopt a diversified form."

"Diversified?"

"Yes, while selling books, introduce coffee, groceries, and even CDs, and extra empty a piece of position to operate these businesses.

In this way, we can obtain more profits outside the book business."

Akiwara Yuto didn't expect the other party to give this opinion, and was a bit surprised for a time.

In his past life, chain bookstores like Fangsuo, Yanyouji, and Xisifu all took this path.

But now it is the Nihon of 93, bookstores on the market are still chasing floor efficiency, and the other party's vision is undoubtedly beyond the era.

It seems that this Miss Sugihara recommended by Satake Maki indeed has something different.

Akiwara Yuto smiled and then continued: "Miss Sugihara, I have a second-hand chain bookstore plan..."