Chapter 332

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Protagonist:

Lu Feng

The bespectacled man walked to the Braised Food Shop's door, handed a cigarette to the unloading worker, and grinned at the proprietress: "Big Sis, how are the drinks selling today?"

The Braised Food Shop proprietress saw it was the bespectacled man and a warm smile bloomed on her face as she went to meet him: "That kid surnamed Lu hasn't opened for business yet, so the drinks haven't sold much at the moment, but no rush, they'll definitely sell even faster than yesterday later!"

"That would be great, your spot is still the best, right by the water so you get the moon first!"

The bespectacled man chuckled, pointing at the cargo compartment of the truck behind him: "Yesterday I saw you sell over thirty boxes in half a day, today there seem to be quite a lot of people coming, so you'll sell fifty or sixty boxes for sure. This time when loading I even deliberately packed an extra twenty boxes for you!"

"Of course! Yesterday that kid had already closed up, yet plenty of people still came to buy drinks. I estimate that once these drinks are unloaded, I'll have to go restock."

The proprietress smiled until her mouth couldn't close, her tone full of excitement.

The bespectacled man glanced at the drink boxes piled at the door: "Will these fifty boxes I brought last you until evening? If not, call me anytime, I'll have the worker bring more in the evening."

"Hard to say."

The proprietress looked up at the sky, wiped sweat from her forehead: "Today's weather is hotter than yesterday, there'll definitely be quite a few more people buying drinks than yesterday, might sell out by evening."

"Alright, call me anytime if you run out of drinks."

The bespectacled man smiled and nodded.

"Absolutely. Once you've sold through those ten thousand bottles in your warehouse, I'll have to come order from you again. Next time you've got to give me an even better discount!"

The proprietress said with a face full of excitement.

Hearing this, the smile on the bespectacled man's face became somewhat unnatural.

He looked at the worker still busy unloading at the door, and said quietly to the proprietress: "Sis, let's talk inside your shop."

The proprietress didn't understand why, but still followed the bespectacled man into the Braised Food Shop.

The bespectacled man rubbed his hands together, his tone suddenly turning awkward: "Big Sis, there's something... I have to tell you, don't get angry, okay!"

The smile on the proprietress's face vanished, her heart skipped a beat: "What is it? Is there a problem with the warehouse goods?"

"No, my drinks are all sourced from legitimate manufacturers, guaranteed zero problems."

The bespectacled man shook his head, then said with a bitter face: "This morning a chain supermarket came to our company to place an order, right off the bat they wanted eight thousand bottles. I said yesterday our warehouse stock isn't much either. Now we can't scrape together enough for the supermarket, so we can only transfer five thousand bottles from the ten thousand you ordered. I came this time to refund you the money for those five thousand bottles."

"No way! I don't agree!"

The proprietress got anxious the moment she heard, frowned and said loudly: "That ten thousand bottles' money, I transferred every single cent to you yesterday without holding back a penny. You promised me perfectly fine yesterday that batch would stay in your warehouse. If you transfer it away, what if my drinks sell out and supply can't keep up, delaying my money-making?"

"Sis, I have no choice either!"

The bespectacled man stepped forward, saying with a face full of grievance: "That supermarket has cooperated with our company for several years, decent scale too, I don't dare offend them. This morning our Manager even called me to the office and chewed me out, saying I shouldn't have privately reserved so much stock for a small retailer at a low price, and docked my bonus for this whole month!"

"I don't care, that's got nothing to do with me. Anyway I don't agree!"

The proprietress frowned, tone still firm: "You're the one who told me to order those ten thousand bottles yesterday. I paid every portion, not a cent less. You can't go back on your word. My business is this good, if I don't keep more drinks on hand what will I sell when the time comes?"

"How about this then? Those ten thousand bottles of drinks, you take them at market price, don't count the previous low price. That way I'll have an explanation for the Manager too, otherwise he definitely won't agree, and I might even lose my job."

Seeing she wouldn't yield, the bespectacled man's eyes shifted, he lowered his voice and said.

The proprietress heard this and immediately became unhappy, eyebrows shooting up: "Make me buy at market price? What kind of international joke is that? Who does business like you?"

"I have no other way either. Otherwise I'll just have to let the supermarket people take your five thousand bottles. I don't want this either."

The bespectacled man sighed, spread his hands to show he was powerless too.

"That's even more unacceptable! Anyway you have to figure out a way to solve this for me."

The proprietress crossed her arms, refusing to let up.

"Big Sis, actually if you buy at market price I definitely won't let you lose out."

The bespectacled man pointed at the vending machine at the door, said quietly to her: "Drinks from now on you take from me at market price, every box of drinks I'll additionally gift you two bottles. That works out to still be a bit lower than market price. And look how well you're selling, the selling price is entirely up to you anyway. If you raise the sale price by another one yuan, it'll definitely still sell. You calculate carefully, this way you'll earn even more than you do now!"

The proprietress took out a calculator from inside the shop, roughly calculated it herself.

One box of Cola 24 bottles, originally from the bespectacled man at 2.5 yuan per bottle, she sold at 5 yuan per bottle.

According to what the bespectacled man just said, two extra bottles per box, price raised by one yuan.

It really would earn more than before.

But then she immediately shook her head, looked at the bespectacled man with some dissatisfaction and said: "But if I raise by one yuan directly now, wouldn't I earn even more? Calculated this way, I'm still the one losing out!"

"No way Sis, I'll go back and apply for two more machines from the company. Then you'll have three machines selling together, won't it sell much faster than now?"

The bespectacled man smiled and said.

The proprietress calculated in her mind, eyes lit up, agreed readily: "Fine! Market price it is! I'll transfer the difference to you. But this time you better not pull any more tricks on me! My ten thousand bottles of goods, nobody touches them!"

"Rest assured Sis! This time guaranteed not!"

The bespectacled man's mouth hooked into a trace of a successful smile, promised solemnly.

The proprietress nodded reassured, took out her mobile phone preparing to transfer to the bespectacled man.

The reason she agreed to buy at market price, on one hand was to keep her ten thousand bottles of drinks.

On the other hand, yesterday her drinks sold really too well.

Just look at yesterday's terrifying sales volume and you know.

Going by yesterday's momentum, never mind raising by one yuan, even raising by two yuan, buyers would still be plenty.

If it were in a Convenience Store, at her price there definitely wouldn't be buyers.

But Vending Machines are different.

Riding on the high-tech bonus, selling a few yuan more expensive than Convenience Stores is perfectly normal.

The Convenience Store on this Food Street side is over a hundred meters from Lu Feng's Shop.

Don't look down on this hundred-plus meters of distance, although it's not considered far.

But compared to her, this Vending Machine, convenience is the greatest advantage.