Chen Feng kept his word and was waiting at the gate of the Jiefang Road market before eight o'clock the next morning.
Lin Mai took him into the market.
There was no one in the market, and leftover vegetable leaves from yesterday were strewn all over the floor.
At first glance, it turned out that after the workers at the market were laid off, they didn't even want to do the aftermath and just left.
In the huge market, only the manager was waiting in the office. He went through the handover procedures with Lin Mai and left without saying a word.
Lin Mai patted the chair where the manager had sat and said to Chen Feng: "Okay, this chair will be yours from now on. Are you willing?"
Only then did Chen Feng understand that Lin Mai's intention in calling him here was to hand over the management of the market to him.
He grinned, showing his big white teeth: "You have good intentions, how can I not be willing?"
Lin Mai also laughed, took him out of the office, and began to plan the market.
“This area sells fruits, this area sells vegetables, and this area sells aquatic products.
This area sells seafood, this area sells dry goods, this area sells meat, this area sells soy products...
I don’t know if the higher-ups will allow the sale of grains and oils. If they allow the sale of grains and oils, they will have to leave an area to sell grains and oils..."
She explained clearly how to renovate and decorate each area.
They are all simple modifications and decorations, and Chen Feng, a layman, can completely understand them.
After talking about the renovation and decoration, Lin Mai said: "When the food market opens, it will need a lot of salespeople.
You can arrange for some of your less fierce-looking younger brothers to come in, and you can solve a small number of employment problems."
Chen Feng thought for a while and said: "Warehouse security guards, porters, fish killers, meat sellers, these positions can be filled by my younger brother.
Selling dry goods, soy products, fruits, etc., these are all done by women. If my little brother stops in front, people may not buy them."
The two returned to the office and discussed how many employees they would need and what goods they would purchase.
This state-owned food market has a very large area and used to have more than 100 employees.
However, the number of staff in state-owned units exceeds the standard. It is normal for two or even three people to work in one position, and this state-owned market is no exception.
Linmai is contracted and operated by itself and will definitely not allow such a situation to happen.
But even if the staff is streamlined, there will still be almost this many people.
Because she plans to run this market like a fresh food supermarket in her previous life, the only difference is that she doesn’t pay at the cashier uniformly.
Because there are neither cameras nor alarms in this era, all payments are made at the checkout counter. If a customer steals something, there is no way to call the police. If things continue like this, all items will not be stolen!
So no matter which stall you buy something from, you have to pay for it and deliver it at the same time.
Since it is based on the business model of the fresh food supermarket in the previous life, the working hours must be the same.
The morning shift is from 6 am to 2 pm, and the middle shift is from 1 pm to 9 pm.
To implement two shifts, the number of employees needed is at least sixty or seventy.
Lin Mai wrote the recruitment notice by himself and gave it to Chen Feng to post at the gate of the market. Then he discussed what dry goods to import from the coast and how much.
As for vegetables and other seasonal crops, they are purchased from the countryside in Simei Town.
Her original intention in contracting the vegetable farm was to help the folks in Simitang get rich, so she would not leave them behind.
Lin Maiquan and Chen Feng discussed everything that came to mind, and discussed the unexpected ones later.
Lin Mai stood up and was about to leave.
When she walked to the door of the office, she remembered something. She stopped and asked, "What do you think is a good name for our market?"
Chen Fengzheng looked down at the purchase list they had just drawn up.
Hearing this, he raised his head and said, "Isn't the original name quite good? People will know where Jiefang Road Food Market is when they hear it.
If you choose a fancy name, people won't know the address at all, and it will be self-defeating."
Lin Mai had her own plans. Since she was running the vegetable market as a fresh food market, she needed a resounding sign to lay the foundation for opening a supermarket chain in the future.
Although supermarkets did not appear in China until 1993 in the previous life, it is still early 1993 now, but it is always good to plan ahead.
"I think - let's choose a nice name, the original name is too rustic!"
"You are the boss and you have the final say. What name do you want?"
Lin Mai originally wanted him to help her think about it, but seeing that he didn't intend to use the thing on his neck, he had to think of a long list of names by himself.
Chen Feng helped with the selection, and finally chose the name Fuduoduo, which was auspicious, festive and catchy.
When Lin Mai left, Chen Feng suddenly asked: "How did you do in the high school entrance examination?"
Lin Mai was stunned for a moment and looked at him blankly.
She never mentioned to him that she was going to take the high school entrance examination, but he knew it well, which meant that he had been secretly paying attention to her.
When he did this, she felt awkward and weird.
She took a deep breath: "It's okay." She nodded and left.
Chen Feng looked at her graceful back and felt a little uncomfortable.
He just deliberately asked her how she did in the high school entrance exam, just to hint to her that he had been silently caring about her and wanted to see her reaction. She seemed a little disgusted~
Lin Mai left the market and went to the district chief Ouyang.
District Chief Ouyang received her warmly and asked kindly: "Are you encountering difficulties?"
"There are no difficulties at the moment." Lin Mai smiled and sat down in front of him, "I just wanted to ask you, I want to sell grain and oil in the market, I don't know if it is possible."
District Chief Ouyang was silent for a moment and said, "I'll have a phone call with the Grain and Oil Bureau."
He called the director of grain and oil.
The Director of Grain and Oils said on the phone that they could be sold, but at the market price, and definitely not at the price planned by the grain and oil store.
If the prices are the same as those in grain and oil stores, I'm afraid the grain and oil in state-owned grain and oil stores will not be sold.
The market price mentioned by the director of the Grain and Oil Bureau is the price on the black market, which is naturally more expensive than state-owned grain and oil stores.
District Chief Ouyang conveyed the words of the Director of the Grain and Oil Bureau to Lin Mai.
Lin Mai thought about it in his mind and concluded that this grain and oil could be sold.
Because she knew that almost no one had sufficient supplies of grain and oil.
Especially oil, only two taels per person, and only vegetable oil.
If she sells cooking oils such as vegetable oil and peanut oil and various grains at the market, there will definitely be many people buying them.
Before going home, Lin Mai took a look at the single room on the road ahead.
Master Zhang had already renovated the water and electricity a week ago according to her request, whitewashed the walls, and repainted all the doors, windows and furniture.
But when it was just renovated, the smell of paint in the house was very pungent, so Lin Mai didn't dare to let Li Mingcheng move in for fear of being harmful to his health.
I went back today and there was no smell at all. The harmful substances in the paint had almost evaporated, and I could let Li Mingcheng move it over.
After leaving the single room, Lin Mai went to the small foreign-style building with a facade.
Master Zhang is leading a few guys to decorate non-stop.
After confirming with Master Zhang that the entire house would be decorated in half a month, Lin Mai posted a recruitment notice at the door of the snack bar he currently operates, recruiting employees for the upcoming Baohaoshi noodle shop.
We don’t recruit at the entrance of the new store because we are afraid that too many people will come to apply for jobs and the rush of people will affect the work of Master Zhang and others.
The snack bars currently operating do not have this problem.
Her snack bar is overcrowded, and those applicants will only rush in unless they are crazy. Under normal circumstances, they wait outside the store.
The clerks were surprised when they saw the recruitment notice and asked Lin Mai: "Our store has enough manpower, why do we need to recruit so many employees?"
Lin Mai blinked and said, "Prepare for opening a new store."
Except for Zhou Caiyun, everyone asked where the new store was.
Lin Mai was vague: "It's nearby."
After finishing these tasks, Lin Mai called Li Mingcheng upstairs.
Lin Mai did not ask Li Mingcheng to go upstairs easily, but now he suddenly asked him to go upstairs. Not only Li Mingcheng was very surprised, but even Zhou Caiyun was also surprised: "What's wrong with you asking Mingcheng to go up!"
Lin Mai saw the gossip on her face and said, "Since you are so curious, come up too."
The three of them went upstairs and sat down in the small living room.
Lin Madao: "That's right, I bought a single room with an independent kitchen on Qianqian Road and it has been renovated.
I want Mingcheng to move here so that he doesn’t have to sleep on a temporary bed in the shop every night.”
Li Mingcheng smiled happily: "I'm looking forward to moving!"
Ever since Lin Mai told him that he had bought a single room for him, he had been looking forward to the stars and the moon and wanted to move there.
Although he comes from a rural area and is a boy who doesn't pay much attention to privacy, setting up a makeshift bed in the shop every day still makes his stay uncomfortable.
If you have your own room, you can live comfortably.