In the morning, when the milkman came to deliver milk, Lin Mai changed his address and asked him to deliver milk to the villa in the future. He also bought two empty milk bottles from him.
The milkman scratched his head and asked puzzledly: "Why do you want an empty milk bottle?"
Lin Mai told him the purpose.
The milkman hesitated and said, "I can get fresh milk for you, but it's more expensive than the fresh milk supplied."
Lin Mai's eyes lit up. How could she forget that Yangzijiang Dairy employees had internal quotas?
"Money is not an issue, can you help me get three places?"
Now that she can get a quota, she will definitely get one for Fang Zhuoran.
Let him drink a bottle of fresh milk every day to replenish his physical strength.
The milkman was a little excited: "Of course!"
Lin Mai paid on the spot and asked him to deliver only one bottle of fresh milk to her every day, and the other four bottles of fresh milk were all sent to the villa.
Only then did she understand why the milkman was hesitant just now.
The price of the fresh milk he sells to her is not only more expensive than the one supplied, but also doubled.
Forget it, as an inland city, being able to drink fresh milk is already pretty good.
Some rich people can't even buy fresh milk with their money.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Lin Mai rode his bicycle to the garment factory.
As soon as I arrived, I held a meeting to learn about the sales of Unique clothing and Lily headwear yesterday.
Ren Baozhu said: "The sales volume of Unico clothing has increased steadily, but the sales volume of Lily headwear has increased sharply."
She handed Lin Mai yesterday's sales list of Lily Headwear: "From the analysis of these data, it should be the poster you took for Unique Clothing that made Lily Headwear popular."
Lin Mai lowered his head to read the sales report.
The sales of several lily headdresses she wore when shooting posters for Unico all ranked among the top.
Tao Zhiyun smiled and said: "If I had known that the headwear you wore was selling so well, I should have asked you to take posters for Lily Headwear.
The poster I took for Lily Tiara didn’t get any response at all.”
Lin Mai smiled and asked Ren Baozhu a little puzzled: "Why are the sales of streamers not good?
I obviously saw girls wearing ribbons all over the street."
Ren Baozhu waved his hand: "Oh, forget it, there are streamers all over the street that are imitating our Lily headdress.
If others sell them cheaper than us, our sales of streamers will naturally be bad."
It is easy to imitate this kind of small product, but it is not cost-effective to crack down on counterfeiting.
After all, profits are limited and the cost of combating counterfeiting is too high.
Lin Mai pondered for a moment and said, "Let's add some identification marks to our streamers."
"Add an identification mark? How to add it?" Ren Baozhu asked.
Lin Mai took a pen and drew an artistic lily on a piece of paper and handed it to Hou Xinyi: "From now on, this pattern will be the logo of the lily headdress.
You take the time to register at the Industrial and Commercial Office, and then notify the employees of Lily Headwear and the tailors who process the streamers for us, and ask them to embroider this logo on the streamers."
Hou Xinyi took the drawing and nodded.
Ren Baozhu said: "It's not much use if there is a logo, people can imitate it very quickly."
"Let them imitate." Lin Mai did not take it seriously, "This situation cannot be prevented, and we must learn to accept it.
If people imitate it, it’s not just the Lily headdress’s signature.
It can be regarded as advertising for us in disguise, so that more consumers can know this brand."
After talking about the Lily headdress, Lin Mai asked Ren Baozhu: "Have you drafted the kindergarten admissions notice yet?"
"It's settled."
Ren Baozhu took out the kindergarten enrollment notice she had drafted and showed it to Lin Mai.
Her admissions notice was well written, highlighting the early childhood education programs and talents of singing, painting and dancing in Xiaohonghua Kindergarten.
The tuition fee is not outrageous, only three yuan per month, and lunch is not included.
Lunch is only 30 cents per meal, and is on a voluntary basis.
Lin Mai nodded and said, "Well written."
Once all the things that need to be discussed have been discussed, the meeting is over.
Tao Zhiyun then told Lin Mai that she had moved back to her home and asked her to rent out her single room.
Lin Mai asked: "Those old beasts didn't come to trouble you, right?"
Tao Zhiyun knew who the old beast she was talking about was referring to: "No, their sons have been arrested and locked up. Their courage has been frightened. How dare they bring trouble to me."
Lin Mai felt relieved now, picked up his bag and wanted to leave.
At this time, the guard uncle walked in with a middle-aged man who looked very shrewd at first sight.
He said to her: "Director Lin, this comrade said he has important business to discuss with you."
The man stretched out his well-maintained, white and plump hands and introduced himself in a Chinese accent:
"Hello, Director Lin, I am Gao Zhiyuan from Jinxing Clothing Wholesale Store on Hanzheng Street. I am older than you, so you can call me Brother Gao."
Lin Mai shook hands with him: "Hello, Boss Gao, if you have anything to do, come to my office to talk."
Two people came to Lin Mai's office.
Lin Mai asked Gao Zhiyuan to sit down, made him a cup of tea, placed it in front of him, and asked with a smile: "I wonder what kind of business Boss Gao wants to discuss with me?"
Gao Zhiyuan picked up the tea and took a sip: "Your Unico clothing is only sold in Jiangcheng."
Unico clothing has just started and is indeed only sold in Jiangcheng.
Lin Mai sat down on the single sofa on the side: "Yes, what's the matter?"
Gao Zhiyuan said: "You don't want your Unico clothing to go out of Hu Province and to the whole country? That way you can make more money."
Lin Mai smiled: "A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a boss who doesn't want to grow his business is not a good boss.
Of course I want Unico clothing to be sold across the country.
But the problem is, Unique has just built the factory and has not yet learned to walk, so he starts running. Doesn’t that mean he will fall down?”
When Gao Zhiyuan heard this, his face was filled with disappointment: "I came to you specifically today because I want to buy your clothes and sell them in my wholesale store.
As you also know, the bosses who come to Hanzheng Street to sell goods come from all over the country.
If the clothes are sold in my store, they will soon be sold nationwide.
But hearing what you say, we can’t cooperate for the time being.”
Lin Mai smiled and said: "There will definitely be opportunities to cooperate in the future."
Gao Zhiyuan asked: "When will it be in the future?"
Lin Mai thought for a while: "After the National Day at the latest."
She now has to deal with the back-to-school season, the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, and the National Day, and is temporarily unable to devote her energy to expanding sales across the country.
Gao Zhiyuan thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll come see you after the National Day."
After that, he stood up, shook hands with Lin Mai, and left.
Before Lin Mai went home, he went to the Human Fireworks BBQ Restaurant.
Ask Wang Xiaoli to help post a notice for house rental and recruitment of nannies at the door of the store, and then go home to write the test papers.
Before half of the paper was finished, the phone on the bedside table rang loudly.
She walked over and picked up the phone to answer it.
As soon as the phone call came through, Ren Baozhu's excited voice came from inside: "Director Lin, almost all state-owned clothing in the shopping mall has increased significantly in price. Should we also increase the price?"
Lin Mai pondered for a moment and said: "It will increase, but the increase will be smaller than other clothing brands."
Ren Baozhu hesitated and said: "Our clothes sell much better than other brands.
If the increase is smaller than other clothing, I’m afraid I won’t be able to supply it~”
Lin Madao: "Half a day's supply is no problem.
I will call Director Tao now and ask her to contact a state-owned garment factory to help us process it. If we can't contact her, we will raise the price again in the afternoon."
Ren Baozhu was a little puzzled: "Why not increase the price in one go, but in two installments?"
Lin Mai explained: “Of course it’s for word of mouth!
Let consumers feel that we don't want to raise prices.
We just couldn’t withstand the storm of rising raw material prices and were forced to raise prices.”
After Responsible Orb ended the call, Lin Mai immediately called Tao Zhiyun and asked her to quickly contact a state-owned clothing factory to process Unique.
The reason why she was chosen to do this was because she used to work in a state-owned garment factory and must know many of her peers.
In a hurry, she asked her to find a contract processing factory that was the most reliable and fastest.
Sure enough, half an hour later, Tao Zhiyun called and said that she had already contacted the garment factory for processing.
She planned to go to the factory in person with the pattern drawings to ensure the quality of the clothing.
Lin Mai continued to study the test paper with peace of mind.
I kept writing until about eleven o'clock, then I put down my pen, got on my bicycle and went to the villa to make lunch for Grandpa Fang and the others.
Passing by Fuduoduo Market, she went in to buy ingredients.
I saw purslane, gray cabbage and small root garlic for sale.
Lin Mai bought some in the past and asked the vegetable salesperson: "Are these wild vegetables easy to sell?"
"Except for small garlic, purslane and gray vegetables are not very popular."
"Will it be sold out every day?"
“These three kinds of wild vegetables add up to only twenty or thirty kilograms per day, so there’s no way we can’t sell them all.”
Lin Mai thought that in her previous life, all wild vegetables sold well.
However, sales in this era were not good because the population in Jiangcheng was not densely populated and there were too many villages in the city.
If citizens want to eat wild vegetables, they can pick them in the open fields. Who will spend money to buy them?
But selling dozens of kilograms a day can subsidize the Fuqiang family.