Yongxing Supermarket now has only 5 stores.
But Yongxing Supermarket Company, which owns five supermarkets, has a capital of 8 billion.
This is absolutely unprecedented among all small and medium-sized supermarkets.
There are many regional supermarkets in China, especially if there are two, three, or three or five supermarkets, there will be even more.
However, such supermarkets usually have great limitations and are not under strong pressure to withstand declines.
Usually when there is a little disturbance, it is easy to become turbulent.
Therefore, the upgrading of the supermarket industry is also very large. Sometimes, within a few months, dozens of supermarkets in a city will all change their employees, or directly change their business operations.
But if a supermarket has a capital of 8 billion and only has 5 stores, it will be very conspicuous.
There will definitely be no pressure on their funds and they will be able to perform better in operations.
So on the one hand, colleagues in the supermarket and department store industry are laughing at Yongxing Supermarket, which is now trying to survive and will never be the same again. On the other hand, they are also watching their actions closely.
"My dad has lost more than ten kilograms during this period, and my mom is a little scared." Zhang Yaya told Shen Huan, "He leads his team to negotiate with suppliers during the day, and has to attend classes with employees at night. One day I wish I could just sleep in the company. It’s almost the Chinese New Year, and my grandma hasn’t even met her son yet.”
"Did it work?" Shen Huan asked with a smile.
"have!"
Zhang Yaya nodded and smiled happily: "The appearance of the supermarket now is completely different from before. Not only the structure, furnishings and style of the supermarket itself, but also the spirit of the recruited employees also impressed me. be surprised."
After a pause, she added: "It's just that I spent more money. My mother feels bad, and so do I. But my father, who used to be a stingy man, doesn't feel bad and is happy with it."
In fact, most of the Yongxing supermarkets in the Zhang family's past were opened around the Lin'an area.
For example, there are 5 stores in the urban area of Lin'an, and 3 stores in the two counties and one city under Lin'an.
Although these three stores will also close, most of their employees have come to Lin'an City to work in the new Yongxing Supermarket.
In the past, the total number of employees in the five stores in Lin'an was about 1,300, but now the number has increased by 700. There are also 1,000 employees in Yongxing supermarkets in other counties and cities who are willing to work in Lin'an.
Five stores require 3,000 people, and an average store has 600 people. No supermarket in the world has such a dense employment.
Supermarkets usually open for morning market at 7 a.m. and close at 10 p.m.
Including the two hours of preparation and closing, the working time is 15 hours, which is two shifts in full.
Each shift employs 300 people. Although the supermarket area is 12,000 square meters, it still seems to be a lot.
But in Shen Huan's strategy, the number of service personnel is directly related to the quality of service, so the number of people is absolutely impossible to be small.
If there are more people, the expenses will inevitably increase.
As expenses increase, cost pressure will also increase.
After reopening, whether the business can have a breakthrough is now the biggest concern for the mother and daughter.
If that didn't work, they might just ask Zhang Duocai to stop doing business and become a rent collector.
Of course, in general, the mother is more worried. Zhang Yaya often comes over to see new stores, and her confidence will be much stronger.
This time she brought Shen Huan here just to let Shen Huan test whether the supermarket, which had been initially decorated and sorted out, met the young man's expectations.
The two of them talked and the car arrived at the underground parking lot.
The two generations of heads of the Zhang family are really very discerning.
When they bought the land and built these five buildings more than ten or twenty years ago, all the underground parking lots were built with three floors.
That is to say, the environment at that time was very relaxed, and their overall building was not very high, so they were given approval from above to allow them to build.
Therefore, the entire 18,000-square-meter parking lot is enough for 1,500 to 2,000 cars to park in it, which is convenient for consumers who come to shop, as well as for the office buildings upstairs.
Now, residents nearby come to rent parking spaces on weekdays.
With so many parking spaces, even if business is good in the future, there is no need to worry about whether there are enough parking spaces or preventing people from coming to spend money.
We walked into the supermarket that has been renovated.
The ingredients used here are not bad, and although there is some flavor, it is not overpowering.
In the past few days, I have been working hard to ventilate the air to reduce the smell left by decoration such as formaldehyde.
The floor height of this kind of commercial building is naturally different from ordinary housing.
Because they were originally used for commercial purposes, except for the underground parking lot, the height of each floor of the five buildings of Yongxing Supermarket is more than 6 meters.
Such a high floor height is most suitable for large-scale commercial facilities, but it is difficult to use it as an office building.
The reason why Shen Huan wrote such a prescription for Yongxing Supermarket in the first place was because he saw the stores here and felt that they were really similar to Costco.
At least the high floor height and spacious shopping area are the same.
However, Costco’s base is in North America, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, and everyone has a car, so they are wealthy and only build one floor, plus 8,000 square meters of ground parking, it’s that simple rough.
Not so in China.
If we do this, for example, if IKEA opens in the suburbs, its business in China will never be as good as that of abroad.
Chinese people are used to living in cities, so this will be convenient.
But the area in the city is limited, so this Costco model is destined to fail.
For example, Yongxing Supermarket has 6,000 square meters on one floor and 12,000 square meters on two floors, which is already very good.
Now inside Yongxing Supermarket, everything is empty and seems very empty.
Ordinary supermarkets, such as Wal-Mart, Carrefour, and Ito-Yokado, all use compact shelf structures.
It was a supermarket, filled with two rows of shelves everywhere. There was only an open space for at most two shopping carts to pass by at the same time. The rest were filled with a dazzling array of products.
But if you look carefully, you will find that each of these products actually occupies only a small amount of space.
It is surrounded by the same products from different manufacturers.
Thousands of products are densely displayed in front of consumers.
This includes the refrigerated, frozen, and fresh vegetable, meat, and fruit sections.
But the weight of each product is, at most, ten or twenty pieces, or ten or twenty packs, left there for you to buy sporadically.
If there is no more, the store clerk will restock it.
Although it is a bit cumbersome, it is also a very normal supermarket model.