Chapter 94
Seeing that white flour is so popular, I thought of corn flour again. The corn produced on the space island should have a unique taste. Although I have never tasted it, I must not be wrong.
Cornmeal is a niche food. People may not eat it in large quantities except for making porridge and making desserts. I thought this was a selling point, so I decided to give it a try.
I sold all the corn to the feed mill, but the flour ground there could not be sold to customers as food. So I contacted the flour mill again, but the flour mill did not process corn. The manager recommended a place to me, not far from the flour mill.
There are individual businesses that specialize in processing cornmeal, mainly for the surrounding residents.
I found this uncle and asked him to help process a cart of corn. There was no problem with this, but when it came to selling, packaging was a problem. Bulk selling was equivalent to retailing, and no matter how busy the salesperson was, he couldn't sell much.
Now it's a trial sale, so I didn't think too much about it, so I shipped the processed cornmeal to the wholesale station. The store ordered a batch of 5kg small packaging bags, packed them myself, and put them on the shelves, which made it much more convenient to sell.
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At first, people had the attitude of giving it a try, and a store owner purchased a small batch. A week later, the sales of cornmeal increased significantly, triggering another sales climax. Bai Luoxue had to mobilize people to help again. 2,000 kilograms of cornmeal,
It was sold out on the same day.
I quickly went to process another car. Workers were packing in the back and salespeople were selling in front of the store. The second car was sold out again.
Bai Luoxue suggested that I process more at a time to save the trip, but I did the opposite. I thought of the principle of hunger marketing, not to do so much, and only supply one car a day.
This whetted the appetite of customers. Vendors who queued up to buy cornmeal every day waited until it was sold out and had to come early the next day, otherwise there would be no more goods to pick up.
Some vendors were dissatisfied, saying that they had waited in line for three days and still couldn't buy it. If they hadn't seen that the product was selling well, they wouldn't have been willing to waste so much time.
Selling goods is also to serve the people. A clerk fed back this information. Bai Luoxue and I decided to adopt order management, which can not only accurately grasp the quantity that needs to be processed, but also reduce the waiting time of those vendors and make them more able.
Maintain a stable customer base.
This is not only true for cornmeal, but also for white flour.
As soon as the measures were implemented, the results were immediate. The work had a clear goal, and there was no longer a rush to recruit people from the cannery. The 10 clerks could completely handle it. It seemed that the flow of customers was reduced, but the turnover increased instead of falling, and the sales efficiency was greatly improved.
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Seeing that the salesmen had a lot of free time again, Bai Luoxue suggested that they put some of those vegetables and fish in the wholesale station.
I rejected it immediately.
What I do in Warehouse No. 1 is wholesale. If I distribute this business to the wholesale station, it will not only affect the passenger flow there, but also affect the sales of convenience markets and even large shopping malls. It is really not advisable. Put vegetables in the wholesale station.
It's impossible to achieve real wholesale, at most it's retail. I don't want to do this business.
Seeing that I disagreed, Bai Luoxue did not give up. She told me that if the employees rested half the time, she would consider laying off employees. You look at the work of those people, and one of them took the lead.
Others will be lazy. Over time, the enthusiasm for service quality work will decrease, which will be greatly detrimental to the image of the mall and ultimately affect the operation.
I really haven't thought about it so much. I have to take this opinion seriously. It has not been open for a long time, so layoffs will definitely have a bad impact. The layoffs are postponed for the time being, and we can consider adding other businesses.
When I was worried about what to sell, Ruxue brought me amazing news.
The 50 chicks on the island have grown up. The growth rate is really amazing. I am not surprised, it is expected. I was still surprised when I saw them.
The hens are as big as roosters, a dozen roosters are as big as geese, and the eggs laid by hens are as big as goose eggs.
I held it in my hand and couldn't believe it.
I tried frying one and it tasted great. It was fresher, tenderer and smoother than ordinary eggs, and especially the aroma was very strong.
What surprised me even more was that Ruxue had collected thousands of them and placed them one by one in the small house. A group of chickens were following behind her, running around, and the chickens would go wherever she went.
"What's going on?"
Ruxue explained.
If there are roosters and hens on the island, chicks will hatch naturally, but it can't explain it clearly. According to convention, it takes 21 days for an egg to hatch into a chick, but here, the chick hatches in two days.
Hearing this, I asked him to sort through the collected eggs again, and put those with particularly smooth surfaces back into the ground, where they would be hatched naturally by the hens.
A little Ruxue made it clear. Sure enough, two days later, another group of chicks appeared on the island.
I couldn't finish these eggs myself, so I decided to buy them at a wholesale station.
For this reason, I specially customized a batch of egg trays. Ordinary egg trays are simply unusable and cannot hold such large eggs.
The eggs are of a strange variety, so the price is naturally higher. As soon as they were put on the wholesale station, people were like seeing monsters. At first, no one dared to buy them. Eventually, some brave ones bought a few. Once they ate them, they became addicted, and they came one after another.
Buy. People are curious and follow the crowd. If you eat, I will eat. If you buy, I will buy. It spreads from ten to ten, and the eggs are out of stock.
When I was thinking about how many eggs to supply every day, I discovered a strange phenomenon. Those hens didn't just lay one egg a day. I asked Ruxue to pay attention. Each hen would basically lay about 10 eggs, and the least was
Seven or eight. This is why it collected thousands of them in a few days.
The number of chicks on the island is increasing. There is no need to buy them separately. They grow very fast. After a while, the supply of eggs will increase, which can completely satisfy the supply of the wholesale station.
The half bag of millet I put on the island had already been eaten up, and Ruxue didn't ask for it from me. I asked it, what did the chickens eat during this time?
For the big chickens, in addition to foraging for food on the island, you can also feed them some wheat and corn. Bai Xue told me that he and Rufeng mashed the vegetables from the seedlings and fed them to the chickens, which they loved to eat.
The big chickens eat too, and those shapeless vegetables have a use. The chickens grow faster as a result.
This is a good idea to reuse waste.
Thinking of this, I saw those dry vegetable seedlings, which had been stacked in several piles. When there were few, I didn't consider the issue of disposal, but now the more they accumulate, the more they become garbage.
Rufeng gave me a suggestion, which is to crush it and sell it to feed mills or breeding farms.
I asked him to crush part of it with a corn harvester and try it in a cattle farm.
When the owner of the cattle farm heard that they were melon seeds, he was stunned.
"My cow won't eat this!"
At my insistence, I let him give it a try. He seemed extremely reluctant. When I gave the crushed vegetable seedlings to the cows, they were all taken away at once, just like the scene when I tried feeding corn stalks as green feed.
The owner was very surprised!
"I've fed vegetable seedlings before, but the cows barely even smelled them, let alone ate them. What's going on today?"
No matter how he wondered, he finally agreed to ask for the feed.
If there is a market, let's talk about it. Entering the space, I asked Rufeng Ruxue to grind all the vegetable seedlings into powder and send them all to the cattle farm.
Chapter completed!