After the meeting, Tao Zhiyun followed Lin Mai to her office.
Lin Mai showed her the clothing styles that she had copied from her previous life.
Tao Zhiyun got the pictures of clothing styles she drew and was so shocked that he fell to the ground:
"You said that you, a person who has never studied fashion design for a day, how can the clothes you design be so good? How can we, fashion designers, live?"
His mouth was full of unwillingness, but his movements were not slow at all.
We need to take the clothing styles "designed" by Lin Mai and make patterns so that workers can produce them.
Lin Mai looked at his watch: "It's almost twelve o'clock. Let's wait until the afternoon to get busy."
Tao Zhiyun shook his head: "Isn't it time to get off work yet? I have to work, otherwise I will get my salary in vain."
Lin Mai ignored her and left alone.
She had to rush back to make lunch.
Although Grandma Fang said she would make lunch, you can't really count on her.
Also, the floor at home has not been mopped today, it still needs to be mopped.
Lin Mai thought to himself, he is getting busier and busier now, should he hire a part-time worker to help with cooking and housework?
Before going home, she first went to Jiangcheng Shopping Mall to look at the clothing designed by Tao Zhiyun for the back-to-school season.
Although it was noon and it was not the weekend, the business at the Unico store was quite good, and several promoters were busy greeting customers.
Most of those customers are female students.
When several promoters saw Lin Mai, they all smiled and called "Hello, Director Lin."
Lin Mai responded gently: "Hello, you are busy with your business, don't worry about me."
She was minding her own business looking at the clothes on the shelves.
Gentlemen really have the same ideas. Unexpectedly, Tao Zhiyun and her ideas coincided with each other.
The clothing designed for the back-to-school season is also in academic and forest style, which is very suitable for female students.
Unico Clothing has captured this strong sales wave during the back-to-school season.
When she was leaving, she passed by the store of a state-owned clothing factory and heard a conversation between two salesmen.
Salesperson A: "I heard that the raw materials for clothing have skyrocketed, causing the prices of various fabrics to skyrocket. Do you know about this?"
Salesperson B: "I know, what's the matter?"
Salesperson A: "Then our clothing prices will also increase sharply."
Salesperson B looked unconcerned: "I don't think so.
Aren’t the prices of raw materials rising as early as half a month ago?
But our clothing prices only increased slightly.
The surge in raw materials this time will not have much impact on us.
After all, the clothes produced by our inland state-owned factories are old-fashioned and not very competitive."
Salesperson A strongly disagreed: "You can't say that. Since the price of clothing on the coast has soared like a rocket, don't you think our clothing is much easier to sell than before?"
Salesperson B: “That’s because we have a smaller increase and have a price advantage.
Without a price advantage, do you think our clothes will sell well?
That’s why I said that the increase in raw material prices will have little impact on us.”
Salesperson A insisted: "In the past, we only raised prices slightly because we wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to digest all the backlog of clothing.
But the inventory has basically been exhausted, and the price of raw materials has increased significantly. I don't believe that the price of our clothing will not skyrocket.
If we don’t raise prices significantly, we can only make money at a loss, so it’s better not to produce, at least we won’t lose money.”
She was talking enthusiastically when she suddenly stopped and looked at Lin Mai suspiciously.
Lin Mai knew that he had overheard their conversation and attracted her attention, so he pretended to leave as if nothing had happened.
Just half a month ago, Lin Mai finally waited for the rising prices of clothing raw materials in Guangzhou to hit Jiangcheng.
But this price-rising wind is like a typhoon, blowing from Guangzhou to Jiangcheng. It seems that it has weakened a lot.
The main reason is that the coastal areas have comprehensively implemented reform and opening up, and prices are determined by the market.
However, inland cities are still dominated by planned economies. The state regulates prices and tries to control the increase in raw materials for clothing production not to be too large. As a result, the increase in local ready-made clothing is very small.
Although Unique, a local clothing brand, has also increased its prices, it has not dared to increase its prices significantly.
After all, it is a new brand, and the price increase is too high, so I am afraid it will cause resentment among consumers.
I wonder if the strong and sharp price increase of clothing raw materials under state control can give her Unico a larger increase, allowing her to make a lot of money.
After coming out of Jiangcheng Shopping Mall, Lin Mai went to the Human Fireworks BBQ Restaurant.
Ask Wang Xiaoli, how was the sales of spicy snails yesterday?
Wang Xiaoli said with joy on her face: "I just called you to report this matter, but you were not at home.
I only have one sentence to express, it’s a great sale!”
Xiaoman's head poked out from Wang Xiaoli's back: "Are you talking about how the spicy snails sold last night?
Oops! The diners almost got into a fight over the spicy snails!"
Lin Mai nodded with a smile and said to Wang Xiaoli: "Since the spicy snails sell so well, then you should hire a chef who specializes in making spicy snails.
Tell me when you're ready, and I'll bring back a large number of snails."
She paused and then said: "Invite the two aunts who used to roast corn back and start roasting sweet potatoes and selling them the day after tomorrow."
Since the corn season has passed and there is no corn to sell, the two aunts have been fired.
Now if we want to sell roasted sweet potatoes, we must invite them back.
Xiao Man clenched his fists excitedly: "Okay! I love roasted sweet potatoes the most!"
Coming out of the Human Fireworks BBQ Restaurant, Lin Mai saw Fang Zhuoran walking over from across the road.
She waved to him happily: "Zhuoran! Here!"
Fang Zhuoran immediately trotted to her side and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Go to the garment factory for a meeting." Lin Mai held his hand very naturally, raised his head and asked him, "Do you still have an industrial ticket?"
Fang Zhuoran's industrial tickets were used to buy a washing machine a few days ago, but the washing machine has not yet arrived.
He asked hesitantly: "Why do you want industrial votes?"
"I want to buy a bicycle." Lin Mai explained, "Every day I either go to the Fuduoduo market or the clothing factory, and I have to go to multiple construction sites in the next two days.
I have to travel to several places every day, so having a bicycle will not be too hard, and I can save time and study more.”
Fang Zhuoran nodded: "I will give you the industrial tickets the day after tomorrow."
Because he didn't have an industrial ticket in hand, but he didn't want to tell the truth to the little girl, so he left two days for himself and planned to buy his colleague's industrial ticket.
Lin Mai nodded and said hello.
Fang Zhuoran frowned and said, "I remember, didn't you register a head office? Why don't you centralize the management of all the branches, so you don't have to run around every day?
We usually hold meetings in the head office to understand the situation of each branch, and under special circumstances we go to the branch to inspect, so we can get twice the result with half the effort.”
Lin Mai nodded: "I have this plan. I didn't build a head office before because there were not many things to manage.
Now that the garment factory is growing, there are more construction sites, and there are more things to worry about day by day. We can't do it unless we build the head office."
Fang Zhuoran reminded: "Remember to assign yourself a secretary. It will be much more convenient to have a secretary to run errands."
Lin Mai deliberately joked: "I want to hire a male secretary, will you agree?"
Fang Zhuoran said very seriously: "As long as it is a legitimate act, I will not get involved in your work, let alone interfere."
The two of them talked and returned home. Grandma Fang had already prepared lunch, which was a sumptuous meal of vegetables and soup.
Fuqiang mother and son ate in a hurry and then went to deliver lunch to Fuqiang's father.