My owner, I must pamper!

Stepping inside, there were three long rows of multi-tiered shelves.

One row held various room-temperature beverages and alcohol, another had instant noodles, ham sausages, bread, biscuits, and the like, and the third was stocked with all sorts of snacks.

While not as diverse as a typical convenience store, it was more than sufficient.

After all, people were still accustomed to buying staples like rice, flour, oil, salt, and various condiments at large supermarkets, where convenience stores typically had very low sales for such items.

Looking at the nascent "convenience store," Xu Ning nodded in satisfaction.

"Send out the notice!"

Following the usual procedure, the housekeeper directly posted the notice in several large group chats.

To our esteemed residents:

Haoding Property Management is committed to providing the highest quality and most thoughtful service to all residents.

In light of some residents' dissatisfaction with the service of a certain convenience store, our property management will be launching a resident convenience store to facilitate everyone's shopping needs.

The resident convenience store is located in Public Building Room 105, and its inventory largely meets everyone's demands.

We solemnly reiterate that the property management does not operate for profit. All goods (excluding cigarettes) will be sold at cost price.

If any resident has better suggestions, we welcome you to put them forward, and we will treat them seriously.

Sincerely, All Service Personnel of Haoding Property Management...

As soon as the notice was issued, the group chats became lively with discussions.

"The property management opened a convenience store? That's fantastic, it'll be so much easier for everyone to buy things!"

"Selling at cost price? Not making a profit? Isn't that a scam?"

"Haha, is the property management openly challenging the convenience store outside the West Gate?"

"Support, support! I'm out of cigarettes, I'll go buy some in a bit!"

"I'm going to check it out for everyone right now and see if they're really not making a profit!"

"I still trust the property management's promises now, after all, my parents have already enjoyed the supermarket shuttle, my son has enjoyed the free school bus, and I've also enjoyed the free car wash!"

"The person upstairs really hasn't missed out on a single benefit!"

...

Soon, out of curiosity, residents began to arrive at the convenience store one after another.

Seeing Xu Ning at the entrance, they cheerfully greeted him.

"Manager Xu, are the things inside really cheap?"

"You're doing this, aren't you afraid of those two at the West Gate convenience store giving you endless trouble?"

"Haha, you're really afraid of us residents suffering even a little bit of injustice!"

After a few casual chats, everyone successively entered the convenience store.

The variety and display of goods were nothing new, but when they saw the price tags, everyone was truly astonished.

They had initially thought that "not making a profit" simply meant prices would be relatively lower, perhaps genuinely not making money.

But now, seeing the prices, they knew that the property management truly wasn't making any money!

A 500ml cola, which sells for 3.5 yuan at the supermarket, was only 2 yuan here;

Braised beef instant noodles, which sell for 4.5 yuan at the supermarket, were only 2.5 yuan here;

Pure draft beer, which sells for 6 yuan at the supermarket, was only 3 yuan here;

Not only these few items, but the prices of all goods in the store were roughly half of what they were at other convenience stores or supermarkets.

The residents were truly shocked!

After recovering, they quickly took photos from various angles and sent them to the group chat, which caused even more of a stir!

"Manager Xu... what's your motive for this?"

A resident asked in puzzlement, as there is no unprovoked giving in the world, unless it's from your parents.

Xu Ning shrugged, speaking in a seemingly joking tone.

"I just can't stand to see my residents suffer!"

"Since that convenience store doesn't treat our residents as their bread and butter, then I'll teach them a lesson!"

"My residents, I must spoil them!"

Upon hearing this, the resident couldn't help but give Xu Ning a thumbs up.

When checking out, it was all self-scanning, but for the first few days, a housekeeper would be nearby to show everyone how to use it, and later it would be entirely self-service for residents.

The first resident to check out, carrying a bag full of items, still felt incredulous as he walked out of the convenience store.

Because he had just roughly calculated that the bag of items he bought would have cost over 30 yuan at other convenience stores, but he had only paid 18 yuan.

It had never been so cheap, that feeling of buying being equivalent to earning!

At this moment, he had already begun to mourn for the West Gate convenience store.

Thinking of the desolate state of the West Gate convenience store, with no customers and almost on the verge of bankruptcy, he felt a surge of schadenfreude.

Serves them right!

...

After the resident convenience store opened, it immediately became the designated shopping spot for residents.

After all, it was both convenient and cheap, so who would still buy overpriced items!

Meanwhile, the convenience store at the West Gate noticed something was amiss.

Their turnover had dropped by more than half!

And compared to the car wash, they found the problem more easily.

Because residents would either enter their store to buy things when leaving the Residential Complex or when entering the Residential Complex.

These past two days, almost no Binjiang Centennial residents had entered their store; all sales were from the Residential Complex across the street.

This shouldn't be happening!

Why weren't Binjiang Centennial residents coming to their store anymore?

Initially, the couple thought it was due to new convenience stores opening near the main entrance and the North Gate, causing a diversion of customers.

But they looked around and found no other competing convenience stores.

Naturally, they again attributed the cause to the supermarket shuttle bus operated by Binjiang Centennial Property.

If it was easy to go shopping at the supermarket, then there was naturally no need to come to a more expensive convenience store.

This conjecture made them very uncomfortable, because they had no way to stop the property management.

"What the hell are you smoking!"

"Aren't you going to hurry up and think of a solution?"

"If no one comes into the store, goods won't sell, and we're practically going to be out of business!"

The proprietress looked at her husband, who was sitting at the store entrance sighing and smoking, and her anger flared.

The boss couldn't help but glare at his wife, grumbling, "What the hell am I supposed to do?"

The proprietress's eyes darted, and she snorted, "Go to the property management and talk to the Property Manager, see if you can convince him. If not, secretly slip him some money and get him to stop the shuttle bus!"

The boss was stunned, then his eyes lit up.

That's right!

Anyway, the Property Manager was also just an employee, so why wouldn't he take some illicit income?

Besides, property management is good enough as it is!

What, are you really going to treat all residents like gods and serve them?

Shuttle buses like that are just a gimmick; do it for a couple of days to build a reputation and then stop!

With an idea in mind, the convenience store boss went to find Xu Ning.

"Manager Xu, hello, hello!"

As soon as they met, he shook Xu Ning's hand very enthusiastically, which caught Xu Ning off guard.

"You are...?"

Xu Ning asked somewhat confusedly, as he truly didn't know who the Middle-aged Man in front of him was.

"I'm the boss of the convenience store by the West Gate; my surname is Bao." The Middle-aged Man immediately smiled and introduced himself.

Hearing that he was the boss of the West Gate convenience store, Xu Ning couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

It seemed that the convenience store he had set up had caused this man's business to plummet, making him restless, so he had come to find him?