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Chapter 594: 30 Hours, 600 Million Units! A Grand Entertainment Vision! The Soon-to-Open Orange Supermarket!

Hanoi, inside a high-rise apartment building.

Tang Zhenzhe lay on the edge of the bed, looking somewhat embarrassed. Recalling the long three minutes that had just passed, he couldn't help but feel regret: he should have gone to Bao Ge's room to get the medicine first.

"Brother Zhe, three minutes is actually quite impressive."

Ruan Shuiling nestled against Tang Zhenzhe's chest, gazing at the undisguised dejection on her boyfriend's face. She didn't speak immediately, but after a moment's hesitation, she gently comforted him in a soft voice.

Tang Zhenzhe's lips twitched slightly. It would have been better if his girlfriend hadn't offered any comfort, but the moment she started saying something comforting, his defenses crumbled instantly, and he felt even more like crying.

"Thank you. You are the most beautiful Annamese girl I have ever seen. Your eyes seem to hold stars."

Tang Zhenzhe took a deep breath and responded earnestly.

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Bihu Yunxi, Villa Area No. 6.

A dozen or so plump koi fish were vigorously wagging their tails by the pond, eagerly hoping their owner would sprinkle them some more midnight snacks.

In an instant, water splashed everywhere, and the surface of the water made a constant splashing and rustling sound.

Chen Yansen lay sprawled on the soft couch, reached into the jar, grabbed a handful of fish feed, and tossed it toward the direction where the fish were most concentrated.

"Boss, if you keep feeding them, there will be an extra dish of steamed koi on the dinner table tomorrow night."

Three or four meters away was a small swimming pool. Ye Qiuping, wearing a champagne-colored swimsuit, swam back and forth a few times before sticking her head out and jokingly said...

"Such a good fish, it's such a waste to just steam it. Making it into sauerkraut fish is the only way to avoid wasting the ingredients."

Chen Yansen put down the fish feed, clapped his hands, lay down on the soft couch, and looked at the dark night sky and a few dim stars.

Ye Qiuping chuckled, stepped out of the pool, wiped the water off her body, took off her swimming cap, and slowly walked to Chen Yansen's side.

She pulled up a chair and sat down, staring intently at Chen Yansen's profile.

"Boss, I'm sleepy," Master Ye suddenly said.

"Hold a short meeting?" Chen Yansen raised an eyebrow and suggested with a wicked smile.

"How about a shorter meeting?" Master Ye asked with a grin.

"I'm not good at holding short meetings; that's my weakness."

Chen Yansen said seriously.

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The next morning.

Evergrande Group has made a high-profile announcement of its entry into commercial real estate, aiming for a scale of 100 billion yuan, and is cooperating with the UK's Bangpu Group to build a five-star hotel in Pudong New Area of ​​Shanghai.

Following this, Tencent announced that it would invest 5 million yuan in cash for the marketing and promotion of App Store.

From April to June, users can receive WeChat red envelopes of varying amounts simply by scanning a QR code to install and download the Tencent App Store.

Pony Ma's intention is clear: he wants to spend money to acquire more users of App Store in order to improve his position in the mobile app distribution field and increase the usage rate of WeChat Pay.

"Pony really doesn't learn from his mistakes. Did the billion yuan he spent on Weishi help? The daily active users still dropped back to the original level."

In the Senlian Science and Technology Park, in Building 1, Chen Yansen sat in his top-floor office and shook his head when he saw the news.

He and Ma Wenteng mostly collaborated, but they also had a lot of competition.

For example, electronic payment tools, online literature, e-commerce, and short video platforms.

Because Liu Qiangdong rejected Tencent's strategic investment, QQ Group Buying, Yi Xun, and Paipai all went bankrupt under Pony Ma's control.

Keeping it will only be a waste of money;
They chose to shut it down directly, but were also constrained by the sunk effect and were unwilling to give up the large amount of capital invested in the early stages.

In the short video industry, despite Tencent investing over 2 billion yuan in Weishi and using QQ and WeChat to drive traffic to it, users still don't like using it.

The daily active users used to be over 3000 million, but now they're only a little over 2000 million. The harder we try, the worse the data gets.

As for the field of online literature, Ma Wenteng specifically renamed QQ Comics to Penguin Comics.

On the surface, it's just a name change, but the treatment it enjoys within the group and the corresponding resources it can allocate are completely different from before.

Afterwards, he added a short drama channel on Tencent Video. This series of actions was clearly paving the way for the novel's film and television adaptation and comic adaptation.

However, Chen Yansen didn't pay much attention to it.

Because Orange Literature, Orange Short Drama, Douyin, Kuaishou, Toutiao, and Lingxi Browser can complement each other in terms of business, traffic, and ecosystem.

The more active users Douyin and Kuaishou have, the more beneficial it is to increase the popularity and reach of literary works, short dramas, and film and television works.

Take Mimo for example. Although it also uses music copyrights from record companies such as Universal, Sony, and Warner, the cost is much lower than Spotify's.

The reason is simple: in the eyes of the four major record labels, Mimo is more like a music promotion platform that can bring huge traffic to the new works of their artists.

Just like "Let It Go," which was released last November, it generated a lot of extra box office revenue for "Frozen."

Songs like "Happy," "Adore You," and "Fancy" also leveraged Mimo to significantly boost their popularity.

Weishi has only 2000 million daily active users, and the user time spent on it is less than one-third of that of Douyin and Kuaishou, which will greatly reduce its promotion and sales.

Therefore, Chen Yansen is also considering hiring a professional manager who understands operations and the cultural industry to integrate the businesses of Orange Literature, Orange Short Drama and Kuaiying, and then add products such as music, long videos and comics, and finally form Senlian Capital's large entertainment group.

He thought about it for a long time and had the personnel department submit another list, but he still couldn't decide on the final candidate.

Imagine needing not only a macro-strategic vision, but also strong internal coordination and resource management capabilities, business integration and ecosystem building capabilities, and business operation and market experience.

How easy is it?

Even after lowering his standards, Chen Yansen still couldn't find a candidate he liked.

Therefore, in the end, we can only broaden the search scope and carefully select the best options.

at the same time.

In Shanghai, there are two large-scale Orange Supermarkets currently under preparation in the Sun Moon Light Center and Changtai Plaza.

In addition, there are 6 mini neighborhood supermarkets in Xuhui, Pudong and MH districts, with store sizes ranging from 200 to 600 square meters.

These eight Orange Supermarkets are the product of Byron and Hou Yi's planning over the past six months, and can be considered the first batch of pilot stores.

From site selection to supply chain setup, the two barely rested, spending the first three months exploring the market.

The large stores in Sun Moon Light Center and Changtai Plaza target young white-collar workers and families, and have specially reserved a "fresh food experience area" where customers can not only select imported fruits and fresh seafood on the spot, but also set up a processing station where chefs can cook the ingredients they have selected on the spot.

At this moment, the store employees are busy stocking the shelves, neatly arranging the goods according to the pre-defined areas.

Hou Yi was squatting in front of the refrigerated display case in the fresh food section, his finger tracing a row of packaged steaks. He looked up and instructed the stock clerk next to him: "Put the steaks in the most conspicuous place. In addition to the price, remember to write the cooking time and temperature on the label as well."

Many young customers buy these products but don't know how to fry them. Writing it clearly will reduce the return rate. The stock clerk nodded quickly, took out a pen from his pocket, and added a note to the blank space on the label.

After giving his instructions, Hou Yi continued his inspection.

He communicated with Byron and reported to the boss, preparing to officially open for business on April 7th, the third day of the Qingming Festival, which coincides with the holiday and will bring a significant increase in foot traffic.

Byron was at the supermarket entrance, looking at a poster.

The poster prominently displays in orange lettering: "Grand opening on April 7th! Order now and receive four eggs free, 50% off fresh food processing fees, and a free fruit gift box with orders over 88 yuan."

Below is a Douyin QR code, prompting customers to scan the code to follow the supermarket's official account and participate in a "store visit video lottery" activity, with prizes ranging from 100 to 4999 yuan.

The prize money will be awarded based on a comprehensive evaluation of the video's views, likes, and comments; the better the data, the higher the prize.

In fact, Douyin and Kuaipao had already started pushing out opening day promotional information and group-buying deals to users in the surrounding area a week in advance.

譬如90代100、180代200、450代500的优惠券，草莓、冬枣、橙子、基围虾、红酒等商品的特价团购，最低三折，最高六折。

In addition, the most traditional promotional methods include distributing flyers at subway entrances, residential areas, and office park entrances.

The group of people worked until 6:30 before gradually leaving get off work.

Xu Botao patted the dust off his arms, let out a long sigh, and walked out of the Orange Supermarket. He didn't rush back to his rented room, but went straight to the Kuai Pao Canteen in Changtai Plaza, planning to have dinner first.

As a subsidiary of Senlian Capital, Orange Supermarket employees, including cleaners, receive a monthly meal allowance of 500 yuan, plus a 40% discount, meaning a meal costs only 10 yuan and can be quite substantial.

In particular, in the past week, the cafeteria has launched three new dishes: braised beef brisket with potatoes, braised beef shank with soy sauce, and braised beef ribs with white radish, priced at 7 yuan, 9 yuan, and 7 yuan respectively.

Employee prices are only 4.2 yuan, 5.4 yuan, and 4.2 yuan.

Order another serving of seasonal vegetables and steamed egg, and the total comes to only 7.8 yuan, because rice and soup are free.

Of course, this is an employee benefit; the price for external customers is 2 yuan per serving.

Xu Botao found a seat by the window with his plate and sat down. Just as he picked up a slice of beef shank and put it in his mouth, he heard someone call his name from behind.

Looking back, I saw my college classmate, Yang Dawei.

"Dawei! What are you doing here?" Xu Botao waved and asked after the other man sat down.

"I work at 2345."

After Yang Dawei sat down, he glanced at Xu Botao's plate out of the corner of his eye.

Steamed egg, braised beef shank, vermicelli with cabbage, and rice—this meal must cost at least 17 yuan, right?
If it were any other restaurant, it would cost at least 30 yuan.

This is why he insists on taking a detour of several hundred meters to go to Changtai for dinner after get off work.

For the same price, you can eat your fill at Kuai Pao Canteen, while outside you can only afford a duck leg rice from Shaxian County.

"By the way, where do you work?"

Yang Dawei asked casually.

Xu Botao scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed to say that he worked as a stock clerk in a supermarket. But he was an honest man, and after thinking for a few seconds, he said frankly, "I found a job as a stock clerk in a supermarket on B1."

"Huh!? Are you kidding me? Shanghai Business School is at least a second-tier university. You could at least find a job at an internet company. There's no need to do such a low-level job. You'd only make three or four thousand a month at most. After deducting rent and food, how much would you have left?"

Yang Dawei was slightly taken aback, then angrily advised him.

"Five or six thousand, I guess."

Xu Botao spoke the truth.

"Five or six hundred a month, less than ten thousand a year, what are you after?"

Yang Dawei questioned.

“Dawei, what I mean is, five or six thousand a month,” Xu Botao emphasized again.

"How much? Five or six thousand? Are you kidding me?"

Yang Dawei stared in disbelief and asked in return.

He works in operations at 2345, earning 7000 yuan before tax and 5400 yuan after tax each month.

A shared apartment in Chuanyang Xinyuan costs 1400 yuan a month. Transportation costs 200 yuan, and food costs 1200 yuan. Even if you don't buy clothes, use water and electricity, use toiletries, socialize, or have a girlfriend, you can still save 2600 yuan a month.

But Xu Botao said that he could save five or six thousand yuan a month as a stock clerk. Isn't that bullshit?
"I'm not lying to you!"

Xu Botao could tell from Yang Dawei's expression that the other party did not believe him, so he put down his chopsticks, counted on his fingers and said: "My base salary is 4000 yuan, plus a 500 yuan meal allowance, a 200 yuan transportation allowance and an 800 yuan housing allowance every month. I get 1.5 times the salary for overtime work on weekdays, 2 times the salary on weekends, and 3 times the salary on holidays."

There are four year-end bonuses each year, ranging from a minimum of 8000 yuan to a maximum of 16000 yuan. Holiday allowances and travel funds amount to only 3000 yuan a year, so I won't include them in the calculations.

Is the year-end bonus paid four times a year?

The more Yang Dawei heard it, the more familiar it seemed. In China, only one company liked to do this.

"The supermarket you're talking about, could it be Orange Supermarket, which is under Senlian Capital?"

Yang Dawei asked tentatively.

"Of course it's Orange Supermarket! I'm not stupid. A regular supermarket stocker only makes four or five thousand a month, even if they work themselves to the bone."

Xu Botao chuckled.

Yang Dawei felt a mix of emotions and suddenly realized that his job at 2345 wasn't so appealing anymore.

I spend all day typing on my computer in the office and only earn 5400 yuan after tax. After deducting rent and food, I can't save as much money as my old classmate who works as a stock clerk in a supermarket.

He forced a smile: "Your company's benefits are really good, but moving goods and organizing shelves every day must be much more tiring than sitting in an office, right?"

Xu Botao put down his chopsticks, pointed to the muscles on his arm, and said with a smile, "It's definitely a bit more tiring than sitting in the office, but it's not as exaggerated as you think."

Our supermarket has dedicated forklifts for unloading, so we don't have to move heavy items ourselves. We also have trolleys for stocking shelves; our main job is to arrange the goods neatly and replenish the shelves—we don't have to think too much about it.

Upon hearing this, Yang Dawei felt even worse.

He recalled that last month, due to rushing to complete a project, he didn't get off work until 10 p.m. for a week in a row. When he got back to his shared apartment, he didn't even have the energy to wash up. Occasionally, he would be scolded by his boss, but his salary was less than what Xu Botao had saved.

He hesitated for a long time before finally asking, "What are the salary and benefits like for operations positions in your supermarket? I'm currently in operations, dealing with data every day, and there's not much room for advancement. I'm starting to think I might quit."

“The operations positions are already full, but we’re short-staffed for sorting, and the base salary is 4000 yuan,” Xu Botao replied.

"Does it include the five social insurances and one housing fund?" Yang Dawei pressed.

"Which of Brother Sen's employees doesn't have social security contributions paid?"

Xu Botao said with a smile.

the other side.

After Orange Technology's three new models went on sale through offline channels, sales surged again, with total sales exceeding 600 million units in just 30 hours.

　Godfathers, I'll finish Chapter 3 tomorrow. I tried to push myself, but I failed.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)