SFS Chapter 156: Expired Bread Can Be Replaced
Chapter 156: Expired Bread Can Be Replaced
After leaving the supply and marketing company, even Li Youcai, who had seen the efficient office work in later generations, had to sigh: Awesome.
Today's trip to the supply and marketing company really taught Li Youcai a lesson.
When it comes to state-owned enterprises, Li Youcai’s fixed understanding is always inseparable from three things and three sentences.
The three things are: newspaper, thermos and lunch box.
The three sentences are: It’s not our responsibility, you should go to XX department, we can’t do it if we don’t have XX things.
Read the newspaper at work, drink water when thirsty, and eat on time.
When you meet someone who comes to do something for you, you will try to push them away if possible. If you can be asked to come twice, you will never let them come only once, otherwise the importance of those people will not be highlighted at all.
This was the first time that Li Youcai encountered such a clean stream as the Supply and Marketing Company.
"Brother Cai, leave the rest of the things to me. I will contact the truck to deliver the samples to them when I get back. You will be the one in charge when the negotiations begin." Wang Qiang volunteered.
In Wang Qiang's view, he is the deputy factory director in charge of sales, and it is his job to contact the supply and marketing company. What he has to do next is some trivial work, and he is embarrassed to let Li Youcai help him all the time.
"Okay, that's settled then."
"But I still have to remind you that this matter is very important to our factory's sales. Everything must be done as quickly as possible, not a second later. Every link must be controlled well, and there must be no mistakes."
Although Li Youcai was very confident in Wang Qiang, he still gave him some special instructions.
"Well, don't worry, Brother Cai, I will keep a close eye on it." Wang Qiang replied seriously.
A loud drum does not need a heavy hammer. In fact, Wang Qiang himself knows very well that this negotiation with the supply and marketing company on product listing is his first formal business job since joining Li Youcai's team.
In the past, all he had to do were odd jobs. Although Li Youcai also valued him, he was more like a runner.
Now that he holds the title of deputy director of the bakery, Wang Qiang also wants to achieve some real results so that he can gain a better foothold in this team in the future.
Li Youcai could guess a little about Wang Qiang's thoughts.
Li Youcai now has three industries in his hands. The farmers' market has been handed over to Li Youjie for management. It can be said that it is currently thriving. The occupancy rate of merchants at the stalls has reached 75%, and it has become an old hen that lays golden eggs.
The construction of the restaurant has been completed, and Gao Dapeng is now working day and night to complete the interior decoration.
Everyone knew that once this restaurant opened, with its luxurious interior decoration and well-trained waiters, it would become the most luxurious restaurant in Taihe City.
Now Li Youjie and Gao Dapeng are both capable of standing on their own.
As the deputy director of the bakery, Wang Qiang naturally wants to perform well.
Li Youcai was also happy to give him this opportunity.
The group returned to Teng County. As soon as they arrived at the bakery, Li Youcai saw many peddlers gathered outside the factory gate.
As he got closer, Li Youcai found that there were some familiar faces among these people.
We used to go to the old factory often to buy ice cream from them.
Now that they see that the bread and pastries in their factory are new and novel, they all come here to buy bread.
These people also saw Li Youcai. Some of them who had spoken to Li Youcai before bravely stepped forward and said, "Boss Li, you're back."
"Boss Li!"
"Boss Li!"
Several peddlers who thought they looked familiar also came forward to greet him.
"It's you guys. How's your business lately? Everything is pretty good, right?" Li Youcai smiled and talked to those people.
"Thanks to Boss Li, we all made a lot of money in the winter, so we're a lot more relaxed this year."
"Yes, last time we sold your ice cream, Boss Li, we all made a profit. This time we also want to sell you bread and cakes from your factory. If you make a fortune, we will follow you and drink some soup."
"Of course I welcome you to come and buy goods from us. As long as your selling price strictly follows our fixed price, there is no room for negotiation. The factory will supply you with as much goods as you buy."
When they were setting up a small ice cream workshop, Li Youcai and his team were only responsible for wholesale, and they didn't care at all about the prices the peddlers sold the goods at privately.
But the bakery nowadays is not like that.
Li Youcai is planning to build "Spring Breeze" bread into a brand, and for a brand, stable product prices are very important.
If the same product has different prices, this will reduce consumers' trust in the product and may even cause them to have doubts about the product, such as its quality and authenticity, or even suspect that its true value may be lower.
This will greatly damage the value of the brand.
Li Youcai's bakery has just opened. Although he is eager to expand sales, he pays more attention to the brand image.
Hear what Li Youcai said.
The peddlers around all had different expressions.
One of the peddlers who was familiar with Li Youcai said with a bitter face:
"Boss Li, you know we're a small business and can't afford to suffer any setbacks. What we're most afraid of is not being able to sell the goods in the short term. The shelf life of bread and pastries is so short. If we can't sell them after the expiration date, we'll lose a lot of money. And you won't let us lower the price now. Even if we want to sell them at a low price, we won't be able to do that. We don't dare to do that."
The peddler spread his hands, feeling helpless about the bakery's rigid requirement of a fixed selling price.
If it weren't for the fact that the bread sales in the market were so hot and these peddlers were not coveting the profits, they wouldn't have gathered outside the bakery, hesitating.
Everyone wants to make this money, but they are all afraid of losing it.
Li Youcai nodded silently, as if he understood the concerns of these peddlers.
The breads they produce now do not contain any preservatives. They only use vacuum drying, desiccant and deoxidizer to extend the shelf life. Therefore, the longest shelf life of the bread they produce is 21 days, and the shortest is only 7 days.
The production date and expiration date are printed on the packaging, so it is difficult for these people to fool others.
However, Li Youcai had already considered this problem when he was building the bakery, and had already prepared measures to deal with it.
"I understand what you mean."
"Well, you can sell them with confidence. As long as the goods are purchased from our factory, you can return them to our factory if they are expired. Our factory will replace them with new bread for you, one for one, and you don't need to pay any extra money. How about it?" Li Youcai said with a smile.
When these words were spoken, the peddlers were visibly stunned.
"Really?"
"Boss Li, you are not kidding us, right?"
"No additional payment, one for one?"
Everyone asked questions at once.
This was the first time they had encountered such a thing, and they were all a little bit unbelievable.
Li Youcai smiled and said, "Of course it's true. I wouldn't lie to you. And it's not just you who receive this kind of treatment. All our factory's dealers receive this kind of treatment."
"Boss Li, you're so generous! With what you said, we don't have to worry about anything anymore."
"Yes, I was worried that if I bought too much and couldn't sell it all, I would end up with expired goods. Now I don't have to worry about anything."
“Let’s go, let’s go buy some goods, let’s go buy some goods!”
Led by the peddlers, they all rushed to the wholesale window on the side of the factory gate to line up.
Li Youcai and Wang Qiang entered the factory together.
Wang Qiang had refrained from asking until now, when no one else was around. Then he asked, "Brother Cai, that separate feed workshop you asked me to set up was for those expired bread, right?"
"Correct."
"In fact, many bakeries also have this problem, but they usually crush the expired bread, wrap it in new ingredients, and make it into bread again. We don't need to do such unethical things."
"I turned expired bread into feed, which also happened to have other uses."