20 years ago, what did you usually do on New Year’s Day
Of course, the children happily went to the homes of their grandparents and parents-in-law for dinner.
Then I went out to play with my friends, bought firecrackers, food and drinks, and I felt so happy.
But it's different now.
Life is very joyless now.
Even during the Spring Festival, many children are playing mobile games, while adults are watching news or videos on their mobile phones.
Usually a family sits in the same living room and basically has no communication.
Not to mention hanging out as a family.
Everyone thinks it’s good to do it at home, so as not to have to worry about it.
Of course, not everyone will be like this.
For example, many elderly people go out for a walk early in the morning, wandering around, walking around, and enjoying themselves.
As an elderly person living in Lin'an, there is a big event today.
That was the opening of Yongxing Supermarket’s sixth store, Shui’an Qingqing store.
Just like last year on this day, five stores of Yongxing Supermarket opened at the same time. It attracted the attention of countless people early on.
Opening is at 9 o'clock.
Moreover, Yongxing Supermarket does not have a morning market. It will not open a fresh vegetable area one or two hours in advance for everyone to buy vegetables and meat to take home.
Therefore, if you want to go to Yongxing Supermarket to buy things, you can only wait until 9 o'clock.
But it was only 8 o'clock, and already tens of thousands of people gathered at the entrance of Yongxing Supermarket. Not only did they completely surround the square, but they also blocked the entrances of other stores.
Fortunately, the queuing method adopted is the iron railing queuing method used when Apple launches new products, instead of letting them queue in several rows by themselves, so the safety guarantee can still be maintained.
The number of people is still increasing.
At this time, the police officer responsible for handling security accidents couldn't sit still.
They quickly found Zhang Duocai, who was here to take charge, "Mr. Zhang, are you ready inside?"
Zhang Duocai was also sweating a little. According to this posture, he didn't know how many people would come by 9 o'clock.
Compared to the last opening on New Year's Day, it was much more lively.
"It's almost done. They came here to work at 6 o'clock today." Zhang Duocai replied, "There are just some vegetables, meat, fruits and vegetables, which are still being loaded and processed."
"How about releasing them in advance?" the policeman suggested. "It will take a while for them to enter the store from here. Even if they are buying vegetables, meat, fruits and vegetables, there is still a queue."
After a pause, he added, "Hey, that's weird, why isn't your hot dog takeout window open today?"
The hot dog takeout window is right next to the entrance gate of the supermarket. The window is also closed now, and even the purchased APP machine is not powered on.
Because they have to serve everyone's breakfast, the hot dog takeout window of every Yongxing supermarket opens at 6 o'clock in the morning.
And it never stopped once it opened, and the takeout didn't end until 10 o'clock in the evening.
When the police are busy, in the morning or at noon or at night, they simply come over and buy a few hot dog combos for everyone to share.
There is a clear notice on the hot dog set window of Yongxing Supermarket.
All military personnel, police officers, medical staff, teachers, city cleaners, etc., who have made significant contributions to society, as long as they place an order through binding their mobile phone number for the first time, their subsequent orders will be advanced in time.
The waiting time will not exceed 10 minutes. If you don't select a flavor and it is a fixed flavor that is made the most, you can get it in 5 minutes.
The longest waiting time for an average person is 30 minutes.
Many people don't understand this, but Zhang Duocai said very domineeringly, "If you don't understand, you don't have to buy it. How I want to sell it is my business."
Therefore, if the policemen come here while they are on duty, there will be no delay.
One or two hot dog meals are filling and can be eaten anytime and anywhere, so they are very popular with them.
Not to mention how good it tastes, at least it is much better than those bread and cakes - it contains meat, oil and water, it is still hot when you hold it, and you can also get another cup of happy fat home water, so eating it will naturally make people feel satisfied.
This policeman eats a lot on weekdays, so he has a good impression of Zhang Duocai's preferential treatment.
"Nowadays, people are queuing up to go to the supermarket. If there is another queuing up here for the hot dog set, it will be completely too crowded." Zhang Duocai explained: "Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year again, and I don't have to go to work, so I waited until 11 o'clock. When the crowd disperses, the business will begin.”
"Where's the roast chicken?" the policeman asked with a smile, "Isn't the roast chicken also out of stock?"
"How can this be possible!"
Zhang Duocai shook his hand, "We have been processing it since last night. We have prepared 10,000 roast chickens. According to the queuing and settlement time, it should be almost enough."
There is still a queue for Yongxing Supermarket’s other signature dish, roast chicken.
Only in the first hour, because it had just opened, hundreds of roast chickens were placed on the counter one after another, so there was no need to queue. Each person was limited to one box, so you could just take it and leave.
"Hehe, I'm afraid that's not necessarily the case today!" the policeman said, "Isn't it good luck to eat roast chicken on the first day of the new year?"
"We are not from eastern Guangdong, so we can't." Zhang Duocai also replied with a smile.
"Anyway, I'm already very nervous here. There are only more than 20 people, but we have to look after tens of thousands of people, and most of them are elderly people." The policeman returned to the topic, "I'm afraid your security personnel If you can’t control it, then put it in in batches earlier, it will be better.”
"Okay, I'll make arrangements here."
Zhang Duocai looked at the crowded queue and nodded.
While talking, he called the security guard standing at the door, and asked someone to go inside to deliver the message, asking them to step up preparations.
After this arrangement, the horn soon sounded.
“Happy New Year everyone!” the loudspeaker shouted, “Because there are too many people, we decided to open in batches in advance... Now the staff will block the locations.
The first batch of customers can enter slowly, be careful of the slippery ground and avoid crowding and running. The second batch will come in in 5 minutes, so don’t worry! "
As the loudspeaker shouted, a staff member clamped a strap on the left and right sides of a railing, and people who had been there followed the open gate and quickly poured into Yongxing Supermarket.
Because we were able to enter, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more lively.
The uncles and aunties all started discussing with great interest what they would buy when they went in later.
Although they have already bought the New Year's goods, a new Yongxing Supermarket store opened today and there are a lot of discounted items. Naturally, they have to step up their purchases.
As for whether it is used so much, that is another matter.