Chapter 64

Chapter 64 Jiulian Food Store

In Jiulian Non-staple Food Store, in the afternoon when customers are sparse, the owner, Lao Li, is trembling comfortably with his legs high on the glass counter.

On the mobile phone is the young man singing and dancing in the short video software. Old Li's eyes are staring straight through the reading glasses, and he is criticizing while sliding his fingers.

Today's young people are becoming more and more unable to let go. What do I, an old man, look at if this continues? It's boring.

Two figures gathered outside the door, entered the door of Jiulian Non-staple Food Store, and greeted him.

"Old Li, are you busy!?"

Lao Li picked up his eyes and saw that it was the old Huaitou from the half street next door. I heard that his fruit shop had lost business recently, and it was going smoothly and triumphantly.

Lao Litou quickly stood up and walked around the counter to greet him.

"Hey, isn't this old? What's the matter, finally have time to catch up with my brother?"

Huaiyuanshan shook hands with him cordially: "You know about my brother's situation recently. The store is too busy to leave. Didn't I just come to my brother's shop to chat with you when I was free? I hope you Brother, don't dislike brother."

Afterwards, Huaiyuanshan waved behind him, and He Luo understood, greeted Lao Li with a smile, and put two full fruit baskets in his hand, and put them on the counter for him.

Old Li smiled and said: "My brother came to my brother's place, what else do you bring, it's too strange."

Huaiyuanshan patted his chest and said seriously: "Brother, a small gift is not worth mentioning. Yuanshan has always remembered my kindness to me, and it is really hard to repay."

According to He Luo's understanding, although Lao Li's Jiulian non-staple food store is on the same street and the end of Miaoguo in Yongping Street, they are far apart, but the relationship between the two is quite good.

After going through the most difficult period in Huai's fruit shop in Huaiyuan Mountain, Lao Li often brought home vegetable oil, soy sauce, vinegar, canned food, and pastries to Huai's house.

It can be said that it helped him a lot when he was in trouble.

One must not forget one's roots, Miaoguo's business has improved in the past two days, and Huaiyuan Mountain has always been thinking about Old Li, who is half a street away, but the store just got idle, so he brought a fruit basket and said he wanted to visit his brother.

He Luo said it's okay to visit, so let's walk the whole Yongping Street by the way, send some fruit baskets, and make a good relationship.

After all, if you do business in the same street, you can't see up and down, and one more friend will only lead to one more road.

So after walking almost the entire street, in the evening, we finally arrived at Jiulian Food Store.

Lao Li dragged Huaiyuanshan and He Luo into the back room, brewed a pot of Longjing tea, and the tea was fragrant.

Huaiyuan Mountain praised the tea, saying it was good, green in color, fragrant and fragrant.

Lao Li said that this is the best West Lake Dragon Well tea that he entrusted someone to bring to him. It is like the relationship between our two brothers. It is thicker than water and lighter than wine. It is refreshing in the throat and moderate in taste. We are friends of gentlemen.

Huaiyuanshan shook his head and said that he couldn't agree more. In the past, when I was depressed, my elder brother helped me to clear the way and relieve my fatigue. Now my elder brother sees the sky through the clouds and mists. The only thing I can't forget is my elder brother's back.

Lao Li took a sip of his tea and said with a smile, "From now on, I have to take care of me as a big brother."

Huaiyuanshan waved his hand: "Where, the eldest brother is always the eldest brother. You and I have a deep friendship and should take care of each other."

He Luo, who was sitting silently by the side, took a sip of tea without saying a word, then looked at the green liquid in the cup, thinking it was tea, why did the two old brothers talk as if they had drunk wine.

As for tea, He Luo is not interested.

Compared with tea, he prefers coffee, and compared to coffee, he likes warm and sweet cocoa, but in the end, he likes wine and spirits the most.

The two talked about the past for a while, Huaiyuanshan found an opportunity, and introduced He Luo to Old Li.

It is said that He Luo has great ambitions and is promising at a young age. He went out to work hard before he was young. With his unique vision, he has accurate and appropriate control of the market. As an old man, he has to lament that the times are still dominated by young people.

He had long heard that Huaiyuan Mountain had found a young and naive student as a partner. Unexpectedly, it was the sullen young man drinking tea in front of him. Upon hearing this, Lao Li crossed his legs and his eyes lit up when he heard that he was interested.

"Little brother, I have been in the world at a young age. At your age, I only know how to step on the sewing machine in the factory!"

He Luo bowed his head modestly: "Where is it, the sewing machine workers back then can now be regarded as white-collar workers no matter what, much better than me."

Huaiyuanshan also joked appropriately: "I introduced my little brother to you, but my brother actually carried private goods and showed off that he went to the factory before. You are so deep in the city, brother!"

Old Li didn't deny it, and laughed heartily. The three men huddled in the crowded back room, chatting about the past, and there were endless topics to talk about.

On the way, Old Li turned his eyes and suddenly spoke out about his problem: "Comrade Xiao Luo, to tell you the truth, since my Jiulian Non-staple Food Store was opened 13 years ago, the business has been tepid. In the past few years, I have relied entirely on the old customers in the nearby community to survive, and there are no new faces at all.”

He knocked on the table with sharp and narrow eyes: "From the perspective of you young people, how can my Jiulian non-staple food restaurant become popular again?"

Afterwards, he quickly added: "Let me tell you first, I don't have the energy to renovate the entire store."

He Luo was overjoyed, he didn't expect that the fish would take the bait before he cast the bait.

But on his face, he exchanged glances with Huaiyuan Mountain beside him pretending to be entangled.

Huaiyuanshan nodded lightly, and patted He Luo on the back.

"Brother Luo, although it's the first day you know Brother Li, Brother Li and I have known each other for a long time. There are no outsiders among the three of us, so it's okay for you to say."

He Luo nodded slightly and snapped his fingers, as if this was the main purpose of his trip.

"Then let me briefly talk about two points. Even if Brother Li doesn't say anything, I personally don't recommend considering renovations, because non-staple food stores are different from fruit stores. The superior of non-staple food stores is a supermarket. , and it’s hard to compare to chain stores with a fixed business model like Family Mart, 711, and Meiyijia.”

He held out a finger and waved it in front of his face.

"What we have to do is use our own advantages."

Old Li was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

He Luo smiled: "That's what we Miaoguo are striving for recently: customer bonding"

"As you said before, Jiulian Food Store has always relied on repeat customers to survive, but these repeat customers who have identified Jiulian Food Store are our most valuable wealth."

Hearing what he said, Lao Li's face was full of confusion, as if he knew everything, and some light shone in along the window paper.

Then, He Luo continued: "First of all, it is essential to increase the variety of products and expand the scope of sales."

"Add variety?" Lao Li was a little confused: "You mean like a supermarket, selling some toothbrush towels, panty liners and other things? But I am a non-staple food store!"

He Luo shook his head: "No, the non-staple food store is small in the first place, and selling those things will only make you feel nondescript."

"I mean, other foods."

"I wonder if Brother Li has heard of a snack from the Kanto region of the island country, Oden?"

"Or closer to us, fried snacks, sausage hot dogs?"

(End of this chapter)