Chapter 233: The Eve of the Opening

Now that Li Dong has made up his mind, Sun Tao will not stop him anymore.

Although Sun Tao's decisiveness is lacking, he does things vigorously and resolutely.

Seeing that the situation was unstoppable, he immediately said: "Then the top priority now is the recruitment of personnel and the supply of goods. Will there be a meeting later?"

Li Dong nodded and said, "Let the heads of the commodity department and the personnel department come over."

After finishing speaking, he added: "Ask Shen Qian to come along, and see you in the meeting room in half an hour."

Sun Tao nodded and hurried out of the office.

...

An hour later, Li Dong assigned the task.

The directors of the personnel department and the commodity department all had bitter faces. This time the task was not usually difficult.

Ten stores are to be opened, eight stores are ready to open, and the remaining 16 stores will also strive to open by the end of the year.

More than 30 stores want to support this scene, recruiting at least 2,000 employees. This time, the first batch of ten stores will be opened. According to the plan, 700 people will be recruited. In addition, manpower needs to be prepared for the next opening. At least nearly 1,000 people will be recruited at one time.

Now that the end of the year is approaching, it is not easy to recruit so many people at once.

Fortunately, Pingchuan is the capital of the province, so the recruitment this time is not about recruiting professional talents. There are more job fairs and more advertisements. Although the task is a bit difficult, it can still be completed with hard work.

What the personnel director complained about was that he seemed to be working overtime this month, and he might even be deprived of his days off.

Compared with the personnel side, the person in charge of the merchandise department is called bitter.

Recruitment only needs to run around the city. This time to develop new channels, those suppliers are all over the world, and there are not many old people in the commodity department, so he may have to go on a business trip to run the channels himself.

Li Dong didn't care what they thought, as long as he could complete the task.

These people are usually supported by high salaries. If they can't even do this well, then what's the use of them.

After dismissing the heads of the two departments, Li Dong said to Shen Qian, "Are you free recently?"

Shen Qian rolled her eyes and said, "What do you mean? Do you think I'm not working? The PR department is fine.

I have to want to do it, how about you give me a promotion? "

Li Dong coughed dryly, and said quickly: "Since you are fine, I will give you a task."

"What task?" Shen Qian was a little wary.

"It's not a big deal. I want to take another loan. You are familiar with the bank. You should try to make the loan as fast as possible."

Hearing what Li Dong said, Shen Qian was slightly relieved.

The loan is indeed not a big deal, but Shen Qian still said: "White wolf with empty gloves can't do it, I don't have that much face."

"Don't worry, I'll take the land in Washington as a mortgage. The land price has risen again recently. The land in Washington is estimated to be worth at least 150 million. Is this okay?"

"no problem!"

Shen Qian immediately gave an affirmative answer, there is collateral, the bank is eager to give you a loan.

"How much are you going to borrow?"

"A base of 40 million yuan is just enough to make up 100 million yuan. If you can have more, you are short of money now."

Li Dong rubbed his forehead, and now the foundation in the distance is empty, and it's really not good without some money reserves.

Soon Yuanfang may face a big war. Those supermarkets have a much stronger foundation than Yuanfang.

In addition, the distribution center also needs to prepare a sum of money.

Although it may not be possible to negotiate well in the near future, it is still necessary to prepare in advance.

Apart from other things, he has to prepare part of the money for the land, and the rest can be delayed until next year when Baidu shares can be sold, and Li Dong will not panic at that time.

After entrusting the task to everyone, Li Dong didn't care about it.

Speaking of opening, Yuan Fang now has experience.

The reason why it feels difficult this time is because the time is too tight, but it is not that everyone has not made preparations in the early stage.

Although it is a bit difficult now, it is not impossible to complete.

...

In November 2005, Yuanfang's name reappeared in the eyes of Pingchuan people.

The recruitment sections of major newspapers are full of recruitment advertisements from Yuanfang, and advertisements for the opening of new stores in Yuanfang are everywhere in the streets and alleys.

In every talent market, almost all employees from far away are resident.

The city TV station also advertised Yuanfang for half a month, Yuanfang Supermarket, everyone's ears were numb after hearing these words.

When it comes to publicity, Li Dong is willing to spend money.

Originally, several other supermarkets were planning to make trouble when the new store in Yuanfang was not open, for example, asking the industrial and commercial fire department to add some congestion.

But Li Dong personally talked with several leaders in the city for a while, and soon these small actions died down.

Speaking of which, Yuanfang is now the big household in Hirakawa.

In Pingchuan alone, there are forty stores in Yuanfang. In addition, Yuanfang's headquarters will soon be located in Pingchuan, and the distribution center is also likely to be located in Pingchuan. The Pingchuan government is not stupid, so it is natural to protect Yuanfang, a large taxpayer.

Without the intervention of the government, several supermarkets knew that they could not stop the opening of new stores in Yuanfang.

Since you can't stop it, you have to look at the real ability.

In the following time, all major supermarkets became quiet, but Li Dong knew that this was the calm before the storm.

You don't need to guess to know that these people are suffocating, and nine out of ten these people will make moves when it opens.

After all, if Yuanfang is not defeated, there will be no living space for them in Pingchuan. The purpose of doing business is to make money. Yuanfang is robbing their bowl of food now, who is willing to be willing.

As time passed day by day, Li Dong was also tense.

You can't relax at this stage, who knows what will happen to the other party.

Even in order to prevent several supermarkets from hacking, Li Dong even sent out the security department that had not yet fully trained.

Each of the several stores that are about to open now has more than three security personnel guarding them.

Li Dong was mainly afraid that those people would cause damage. If the store site was damaged the day before the opening, it would be a big trouble.

Now that the opening time has been publicized, if it fails to open, Yuanfang will not only be ashamed, but will also create the impression of being untrustworthy, which Li Dong cannot tolerate.

Of course, these supermarkets are all well-known enterprises, so they may not be able to do such a thing.

But people's hearts are unpredictable, and there are some small and medium-sized supermarkets in Pingchuan, who knows if someone will take advantage of the fire to rob them.

Needless to say, Li Dong's worries are not unreasonable.

Within two days, Li Dong received a call from Zhou Haidong in the middle of the night. The security guards had caught a few people who wanted to sabotage.

There were a total of four people who came to make trouble. They brought axes and other tools to the door of a new store in the middle of the night. Several security personnel didn't pay attention for a while, and the anti-theft door was knocked open, and the glass door was not smashed.

Fortunately, before they could do anything else, several security personnel subdued them.

Send people to the police station, and the rest of Li Dong doesn't care.

The smashed glass door was quickly replaced with a new one, and Li Dong became more vigilant, these people really dare to play tricks.

Just in case, Li Dong sent all the security personnel out one after another.

Maybe it was the first time that he was caught by mistake and made the people in the dark give up, and the subsequent sabotage never happened again.

The opening time of the ten stores in the distance is getting closer and closer.

At this time, Li Dong was not nervous anymore. When the situation came to an end, he had made all the preparations that should be done. The next thing everyone was looking at was strength.

...

November 30th, the last day before opening.

Although the weather had turned cold, Sun Tao was still sweating profusely when he entered the office.

In order to make preparations, he inspected all ten stores in the morning, and then rushed back to the company non-stop, exhausted.

Li Dong poured him a glass of water and asked, "How is it?"

Sun Tao took a sip of water, took another long breath, and then smiled: "It's been a long time since I worked so hard. I remember when the first store in Dongping opened, I was in this mood at that time. Later, when Fucheng and Tongshan opened, I I’m used to it, and I don’t feel any nervousness, and now I finally experience it again.”

Li Dong also felt similar to Sun Tao.

When the Dongping store opened, he couldn't sleep all night.

Even on the first day of opening, in order to wait for the business results, he didn't close his eyes until twelve o'clock, and after knowing the results, he was so excited that he didn't fall asleep all night.

But when the store opened later, even if Fucheng set a record, Li Dong was not so excited and looking forward to it.

Sun Tao just talked about his feelings casually, and then said: "The preparations are done, there is nothing wrong with it, I asked them to rectify some minor problems, it is not a big problem."

Li Dong breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "The next thing is to see the result. If we can encircle and suppress those few families, then we can just follow the gourd painting, and Jiangbei will be dominated by our family in the future."

Sun Tao smiled, this idea can only be said to be anticipation.

I really want to dominate Jiangbei, but Yuanfang doesn't have the strength yet. After all, those supermarkets with deep heritage are still there.

Compared with the exclusive stores of Carrefour, those stores have a much stronger foundation in Jiangbei, and there are no fewer stores than those in Yuanfang.

To defeat them, Yuan Fang has to work hard.

The two had a conversation, and Liu Qi hurried into the office.

Seeing Li Dong and Sun Tao, Liu Qi immediately said: "Mr. Li, Mr. Sun, there is news."

"what news?"

"Several other supermarkets will have activities tomorrow, and now they have started to promote, and the discounts are not small."

"That's it? What else?"

Li Dong asked a question, it is certain that there will be activities, he has already guessed this point, it is not surprising.

When I was in Qingyang, other supermarkets did it.

But those supermarkets have held back until now and have a discount event, which seems to be a bit thunderous and rainy.

But Liu Qi hurriedly said: "Mr. Li, they have a huge discount this time. Our new store only has a 50% discount when it opens, and they will directly discount 10%!"

Li Dong's face suddenly changed. He knew that he might face a price war, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

In the retail industry, especially supermarkets and stores, profits are generally not low.

Like Yuanfang now, the general profit is maintained at about 20%. Of course, this is gross profit.

After deducting taxes and other expenses, it can barely maintain a net profit of about 10%.

You can still make money with a 50% discount, but if you get a 10% discount, this is almost the cost price.

Upon hearing this, Li Dong hurriedly said, "Is it a discount for the whole audience, or part of it?"

"The audience!"

Both Li Dong and Sun Tao's expressions changed, and the audience was 10% off. This is to fight themselves desperately! (To be continued.) Enable new URL