Chapter 2610 The Shopping Agency Is Open!
In June, Xiaoyao Mall proposed a plan to set up a Xiaoyao Mall purchasing agent in every large town in Huaguo.
There are more than 40,000 villages and towns in Huaguo. Except for some towns that are too remote, and some towns that are too small and not many people live in, the first batch of Xiaoyao Mall has set up a total of 15,760 purchasing agents, employing more than 40,000 workers.
Of course, it is impossible for the shopping agent to store too many things. First, the shelf life of the goods is limited. Second, this does not conform to the rules of centralized use of resources, which will cause great waste.
Therefore, the experts of Xiaoyao Logistics selected locations across the country to build Xiaoyao Logistics warehouses at the center of a few or more than a dozen neighboring towns. These logistics warehouses are basically located in county towns, and there are about 2,000 logistics warehouses.
After confirming the location, we started to buy land for construction, because these places are already the fifth-tier counties in Huaguo, so the land is very cheap, and the labor and material costs are also relatively cheap. Naturally, the construction is like flowing water, very fast.
For these 2,000 Xiaoyao Logistics warehouses, Xiaoyao Logistics has recently mobilized a large number of manpower from second- and third-tier cities to serve as managers and captains, and to train more than 200,000 newly recruited employees.
In the days to come, they will spend their days on the run almost every day. Unlike the Xiaoyao logistics staff in other cities, they have to walk a lot of mountain roads, the environmental conditions will be worse, and the degree of fatigue will be greater many.
But this group of newly joined employees is not some squeamish city kids.
For my own income, to support my wife and children, what can't labor do?
What's more, Xiaoyao Logistics is a company owned by Xiao Qi, the richest man in the world. Although it is the hardest, even harder than the people in Xiaoyao Mall and Xiaoyao Express, their salary is also the highest.
In such fifth- and sixth-tier counties and towns, more than 6,000 jobs with a monthly salary, as well as various comprehensive welfare systems, are enough for most people to desperately want to get them.
Because the car has to go to the shopping agent in the township all day long. So they have traveled back and forth many times in large trucks and small trucks. Practice day and night, very hard.
Then, inside the Xiaoyao Logistics warehouse, there are very strict unified standards for receiving goods, placing goods, sending goods, parking vehicles, etc. All Xiaoyao Logistics warehouses across the country are the same, at most the difference is the size. Familiarize yourself with these within a few months. It also takes a lot of hard work and research.
As I said before, Xiaoyao Logistics pays a high salary, and 100% of the salary is paid during the training period, which makes them full of energy. They are afraid that they will be eliminated if they don't work hard enough, which will live up to the expectations of the family.
Therefore, in just two or three months, they have basically been trained as qualified transport personnel and cargo handlers, no worse than those in big cities who have been employed for more than half a year.
In addition to training these employees of Xiaoyao Logistics, there are also training tasks for purchasing agents over there. It seemed a little troublesome.
Of course, it does not mean that there are any obstacles to the establishment of purchasing agents. In fact, all the towns and towns where purchasing agents are located all raise their hands to welcome them. Welcome to Xiaoyao Mall.
They also saw the advertisement of Xiaoyao Mall on TV and knew about it through chatting. The things in Xiaoyao Mall are good and cheap, definitely not like those super inferior goods that are sold exclusively in rural areas, they are definitely conscientious products.
To be honest, most of the farmers are not well-off, otherwise those products that are cheap but of absolutely inferior quality will not be popular in the countryside.
In the past, there were no conditions, but now Xiao Qi has so much money and the ability to help them. Of course, Xiao Qi will try his best to suppress these black products, so that farmers can enjoy a healthy and happy modern life.
Purchasing goods from purchasing agents is only the first step. In the next step, Xiaoqi will expand more products, including food, clothing and housing.
In the next step, Xiao Qi also hopes to establish a regional-level commodity circulation, that is, to sell the agricultural products of farmers to nearby areas, so that they can increase their production and income.
It's not that Xiao Qi is unwilling to sell it all over the country, it's because many agricultural products have a shelf life, and the transportation conditions are very harsh, so there is no way to transport them to farther places.
Well, back to the topic.
Since farmers and officials welcome the plan of Xiaoyao Shopping Center, why bother?
The main reason is that the people who stay in the villages and towns are generally middle-aged and elderly people, as well as young people with little education, so they have no experience with the Internet or with all kinds of new things.
This kind of online shopping, which can be enjoyed by any white-collar worker in the city, has become a problem here.
The employees of Xiaoyao Mall, together with some college students recruited temporarily, have spent a lot of effort to let the middle-aged people in these purchasing agents know how to shop.
A shopping point has at least five computers and two staff members. After the common people tell them what they need, they will call out products of this category on the Xiaoyao Mall page for the common people to check and choose.
If there is anything they don't understand, they are also responsible for asking the online customer service staff of Xiaoyao Mall to answer the questions of ordinary people.
If there is no problem with the price, size, etc., then ordinary people will place an order, wait for three to five days, and the staff of Xiaoyao Logistics will deliver the goods to the purchasing agent. After the ordinary people check it out, they will take the money pick up.
Ordinary people also have the normal 7-day dissatisfied right to return the goods, as long as they return to the purchasing agent, after the staff of the purchasing agent confirms with the website, they will apply for a refund, and the Xiaoyao logistics staff who came to take back the goods will refund give them.
What satisfied the common people the most was that the county government, town government and other units put up the signs of "Integrity Enterprise" and "Government Guarantee Enterprise" directly at the door of Xiaoyao Mall's purchasing point.
Although such a brand is a bit exaggerated, the simple people still recognize it. The more straightforward and simple you say it, the more they believe it.
After all, when buying things, no one wants to buy fakes, nor does anyone want to suffer a loss.
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That's it, a series of measures for Xiaoyao Mall's purchasing agents have been prepared from June to October, and now it's finally time to blossom and bear fruit!
Tuesday, October 20.
Zhou Bo, the vice president of Fairy Company and the director of Xiaoyao, unveiled the signboard of "Xiaoyao Shopping Center" in front of three large tile-roofed shops in a township in Qianzhou Province. Millions of firecrackers were set off like this. The festive sound of beating gongs and drums followed, and Xiaoyao Mall's purchasing agency plan officially opened for business!
Since a lot of publicity was done before and various leaflets were also sent out, many ordinary people flocked to the shopping agent.
They don't necessarily want to buy things, most of them are watching the excitement, but there are also people who like to try new things.
Tens of thousands of commodities in all aspects of food, clothing and housing appear in front of them, and there are only things they can't think of, and nothing they can't see.
In terms of price, in order to benefit farmers in these towns, Xiaoyao Mall only set a minimum price of 38 yuan for free shipping, which is even lower than the 58 yuan in the city.
In the early stage, it will definitely lose money. Only as people in the township trust Xiaoyao Mall more and more, can it become a stable profit, and it is not high.
Because in addition to the 39 free shipping, Xiaoyao Mall also specially made a special price for the purchasing agent. As long as you use the account of the purchasing agent to enter the purchase, the price will be about 10% cheaper than in the city.
Don't underestimate this 10%. Usually, the net profit of Xiaoyao Mall is about 30%, which is basically one-third of the profit.
Xiao Qi has never been a person who does good deeds without leaving his name, so he publicized the discounts and conveniences he could enjoy early on.
For this reason, people in the big cities still have a lot of controversy.
Many people think that the city and the countryside are the same, and the cost of transporting to the countryside is even higher. Why is it cheaper?
But more people feel that this is a manifestation of Xiaoyao Mall's sense of social responsibility.
Originally, the income gap between urban and rural areas is huge, so why not make some profits so that ordinary people can live a better life?
Let alone the endless debate.
The first day's turnover of Xiaoyao Mall's purchasing agents came out soon.
There were 15,760 purchasing agents, and the total sales on the first day were 126 million, with an average of less than 10,000.
This data is not good.
Because in this era of high prices, many things are not cheap, especially in addition to daily food, the price of many small commodities is very expensive, and any item can cost dozens of dollars.
The shopping agents selected by Xiaoyao Mall are usually relatively large-scale, and there are huge crowds of people during the festivals and festivals.
Therefore, the average purchase point is less than 10,000, which means that there are not many ordinary people who actually place orders to buy.
But Xiao Qi was not worried at all.
First of all, the shopping agent itself is not for making money, but just for the convenience of the people to enjoy a better quality of life, and resolutely let those unscrupulous goods have no market.
Secondly, any business has a process. It is rare that it is booming as soon as it opens. Many of them need time to cultivate and gradually become better and better.
Three, this can completely increase the brand reputation of Xiaoyao Mall and even Fairy Company, and when those children who have used the products of Xiaoyao Mall since childhood grow up, they will also become loyal supporters of Xiaoyao Mall.
Therefore, even if it is losing money now, there is no problem with Xiao Qi's financial resources.
Do a good deed, but you have to do it for a long time, so as to help more people!
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