Chapter Thirty-Eight: Opening a Supermarket

  "Oh? You have another way of making money?" Qin Xuan looked at Mo Shaokun with some surprise.

  "Of course, isn't it just about making money? I can come up with a few good ideas for you in no time!" Mo Shaokun said with a sly smile, pulling out a cigarette from his pocket and lighting it, taking a deep drag. This after-dinner smoke was indeed heavenly.

  Qin Xuan had long known that Mo Shaokun smoked, and at first she had advised him against it, but he didn't listen. Over time, she got tired of caring about it, anyway, he's an adult now, if he wants to smoke, let him smoke.

  "Wow, wow, wow, you're almost blowing the cow into the sky." Qin Qian looked at Mo Shaokun with disdain.

  Mo Shaokun smiled and said his thoughts out loud.

  "Sister, have you heard of supermarkets?"

  "Supermarket? What things?" Qin Xuan looked at him with some confusion.

  Mo Shaokun did not rush to answer, but rather pondered in his heart how to respond. The supermarket is still a fresh word for the current Chinese people, although some large cities in China had supermarkets as early as 1994, they were still using the most backward counter sales method, far from the later warehouse-style one-stop shopping center, and can be said to have only an empty name.

  The real supermarket in China was born in 1995, with the entry of international well-known retail enterprises such as Carrefour into the Chinese market. In just a few years, the domestic supermarket industry developed rapidly, and by 2000, the annual sales of the domestic supermarket industry had exceeded 100 billion yuan!

  Mo Shaokun was well aware that in the future, supermarkets would become one of the most frequently visited places in people's daily lives! How could he possibly miss out on such a big cake?

  "What is called a supermarket is an abbreviation of super market, some large supermarkets almost cover all the necessities of daily life. Supermarkets have long been popular abroad, but at home it is still a fresh word."

  "Sister, after doing business for so many years, you should understand that only by seizing the initiative can we make a lot of money. Taking advantage of the current domestic supermarket market being a blank slate, if we can be the first to enter, I think the prospects will be very promising."

  Seeing Mo Shaokun's serious expression, Qin Xiang also put on a serious face and said, "Tell me in detail."

  "Let me give you an example, when buying vegetables, you go to the vegetable market, for toothbrushes and toilet paper, you go to a convenience store, and for nails, hammers, and screwdrivers, you go to a hardware store. There are many more examples like this. But if there was one place that sold all of these things at once, so you could buy anything you needed in just one trip, would you rather go there or waste time and energy running around everywhere?"

  Qin Xuan didn't speak, she lowered her head and pondered for a moment. She raised her head and looked at Mo Shaokun with a strange expression: "Shaokun, where did you learn these things from?"

  "I used to read books during my free time when I lived alone. The concept of supermarkets was something I saw in several translated foreign books, where it has become an indispensable part of their daily lives abroad. Although the development is slower domestically, I believe that with the continuous growth of our national economy, we will also be like this." Mo Shaokun said casually.

  Qin Xuan nodded, she didn't suspect Mo Shaokun's words, this guy really liked reading books, when collecting this house, there were at least over a thousand books of various kinds! However, Qin Xuan didn't know that most of these books were collected by Wang Nainai in the past.

  Wang's grandmother, in order to supplement the family income, would also collect waste books and miscellaneous items from the streets when her body was still good. After sorting them out, she would sell them to recycling stations for a meager profit. However, Mo Shaokun liked reading books, which is true, and it was precisely because he liked reading books that Wang's grandmother did not sell those relatively intact books.

  "It sounds like a good idea when you put it that way, but I'm afraid it won't be that easy to implement. Not to mention other things, just the sources of goods alone, where are we going to find them?" Qin Xing indeed lived up to her reputation as a seasoned businesswoman, quickly pinpointing the difficulties involved.

  "This is currently the biggest problem, but it's not unsolvable. We can advertise and recruit merchants, even visit some manufacturers in the province to invite their products into our supermarket. As for those products that are not produced by manufacturers in our province, we can first purchase them from their distributors."

  He flicked his cigarette ash, and a smile appeared on Mo Shaokun's face: "When we reach a certain scale, we won't have to look at the faces of these factory owners anymore. They will flock to us, eager to put their products on our shelves! At that time, the initiative will be in our hands, and we can even ask them to deliver goods first and pay later. This way, we'll have sufficient liquidity to continue expanding our scale!"

  Qin Xuan stared blankly at Mo Shaokun, wondering how his brain was wired. Could he really come up with so many ideas just from a few foreign picture books?

  "Shaokun, do you really have the confidence to make it happen? After all, Chinese people are already used to buying things at vegetable markets and street stalls. What skills do you have that can make them willing to enter your supermarket to buy things? I think just relying on having a wide variety of goods is not enough, right? And with so many things placed together, how can you guarantee that nothing will be lost?" Qin asked.

  Mo Shaokun chuckled and shook his head, "Having a wide variety of products is just a supermarket's business model, what really attracts customers is the price! What we need to do is run a low-priced supermarket. As long as our prices are lower than those of street vendors and small shops, people will definitely come to buy from us. It seems like we're losing out, but actually, we're not losing out at all! Because our procurement volume is large, and in the future, we can even get direct supplies from manufacturers, getting a much lower procurement price than street vendors! As for shoplifting, it's not difficult either. We just need to introduce advanced identification systems from abroad. If someone hasn't paid and scanned their items at the door, an alarm will go off."

  Qin Xuan lowered her head and thought carefully, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this thing could really be done!

  "Alright, I admit you've convinced me, sister is in on this with you! How much money do we need?"

  Mo Shaokun shook his head and said, "For the time being, I don't need you to put in any money. The money I made from the stock market should be enough to open the first supermarket. However, when we expand our scale after the first supermarket is on the right track, that's when we'll have to rely on you, a big rich man."

  "Now the top priority is to find a suitable place first, the venue should be at least several thousand square meters, if it can have tens of thousands of square meters that would be even better, and preferably in a densely populated residential area."

  Qin Xuan heard this and couldn't help but slightly furrow her brow: "Where can you find such a big house? Unless it's those old factories or warehouses."

  "Wait a minute, you said factory?" Mo Shaokun's eyes suddenly lit up as he stared at Qin Xuan.

  Qin Xuan saw her brother's appearance and was somewhat perplexed, but she still nodded and said: "Right, except for the factory and warehouse, where else would there be such a big house?"

  "Haha! How come I didn't think of that?! Sister! You're a genius!!" Mo Shaokun suddenly burst out laughing.

  "Rebirth: The Life of a Proud Person" latest chapter is released by Yunqi Book House, the fastest and most popular online release site! (This site provides two modes: traditional pagination and waterfall, which can be selected in settings)