Chapter 222 Industry Concerns

Chapter 222 Industry Concerns

Chapter 222 Industry Concerns
The Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin area, which are coastal regions, were the first sales areas to receive Little Mike bananas.

Currently, the Qiongzhou branch harvests 2300 to 2400 tons of green bananas every day, which are transported in large refrigerated containers by sea.

In order to ensure that the bananas can be put on the shelves in time after they arrive, special ripening rooms have been established in storage centers across the country.

In fact, it usually takes 7 to 10 days for bananas to get from Qiongzhou to the Tianjin Port warehouse. Even if the temperature is maintained at a suitable 13 degrees Celsius, these bananas are already very close to maturity.

Therefore, after bananas from the Beijing and Tianjin areas arrive at the port, they basically do not need to be ripened a second time and can be shipped to specialty stores.

Tianjin Port South Warehousing Center.

The workers started unloading the bananas using a forklift.

"Lao Qin, this batch of bananas are quite ripe. Put them on the shelves immediately." Xiaodong, the quality inspector in charge of random sampling, shouted.

"understood."

The bananas were packed in cardboard boxes with a layer of plastic wrap inside. Several workers in charge of carrying the goods quickly moved the boxes of bananas onto a cart.

On the shelves of the warehouse supermarket next door.

They are all unopened bananas.

"Waiter, give me 50 boxes, and I want the greener ones." A middle-aged man in a leather coat shouted directly to the waiter.

The waitress immediately recognized him as the fruit shop owner who had bought 20 boxes of bananas from her a few days ago: "Boss Li, the green ones need to go to the warehouse. Can you tell me how ripe you want them? I'll adjust the stock for you."

"Can you transfer the goods? That's great, take me to have a look!"

"no problem."

Enter the warehouse area.

Boss Li looked at a large warehouse full of bananas, ginseng fruit, strawberries, tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables from farmers contracted by Hailufeng Company.

He was very surprised: "How can you make so many fruits?"

The waiter smiled and introduced: "The agricultural products with black labels are produced by our company's own farms, and the agricultural products with red labels are grown by cooperative farmers. The quality of all products is controllable."

"I sell premium fruits. If I want to get the goods from you, can I make a reservation?"

At this time, the marketing director of the storage center came over and said, "Hello, I'm He Xiaoshu, the director of this storage center. What's your name?"

"Um, my last name is Li. Hello, Director He!" Boss Li smiled and extended his hand.

After the two shook hands, Boss Li asked, "Can your warehouse ship directly to the big city next door?"

"If you're not shipping in large quantities, you might as well come here and transport it yourself. We charge for cross-city delivery," He Xiaoshu suggested.

For this kind of boutique fruit store in the county town, it is profitable because Hailufeng Company has not yet opened a franchise store there.

But for the surrounding big cities, there are basically no fruit stores coming to Hailufeng Company's storage center to get fruits. The reason is very simple: even if they get the fruits, they cannot compete with Hailufeng specialty stores in terms of price.

As long as the Hailufeng franchise store covers the area, its prices are much lower than those of its peers.

Of course, this depends on the transportation costs. If it can be transported by sea or inland waterway, the price can basically be maintained uniform across the country. If it cannot be used in a certain area, the price will definitely have to be adjusted.

For people like Boss Li who specialize in running fruit shops in small counties, if they are willing to come and pick up the goods themselves, the profit can be relatively considerable.

After a while, Boss Li took back fifty boxes of bananas and a lot of other fruits.

Over here at the warehouse supermarket.

There are quite a few customers coming to consume.

Mainly because the number of registered users of the Hailufeng specialty store APP during the Spring Festival finally exceeded 9000 million, and is currently stable at around 9324 million.

These users form a large private domain.

Through these users, Hailufeng Company has a relatively stable customer base.

With low prices, excellent quality and same-city delivery, it is hard to find any competitor.

"These bananas are so expensive! Ten yuan per pound..." a girl complained in a low voice.

Her boyfriend pointed at the label and said, "Look carefully, it's ten yuan a kilogram, five yuan a pound."

"This is quite expensive, isn't it? I only paid two or three yuan per pound in Qiongzhou."

"You said it was Qiongzhou, where is this place?" Her boyfriend was speechless.

"Don't you love me anymore? Baby..."

The young man spread his hands and said, "I'm just telling you the truth, don't talk nonsense. Do you want to buy something? If not, take it back."

“Buy, buy, buy…” The girl took a large bowl of strawberries.

"Damn! You only pick the expensive ones!" Looking at the vanilla strawberries that cost 99 yuan per kilogram, the big pot was 5 kilograms. Although there is a 5% discount in the warehouse supermarket, the amount of a pot is not enough.

"Do you want to buy it or not?"

"Okay, buy, buy, that's all!" The young man who was asked back could only accept this result and took a large box of bananas.

A box of 10 kilograms of bananas like this costs 100 yuan, but after a 90% discount at the warehouse supermarket, it only costs yuan.

In fact, this box of bananas weighs more than 10 kilograms. Because the supermarket has to consider the problem of water loss, they often add 5% more weight as a reserve.

JN District.

Old Zhao, who had just driven back, received a call from his son as soon as he parked the car. He hurried to the gate of the community.

As soon as he arrived at the west gate of the community, he saw a van on the side of the road. The van had a label of Hailufeng Specialty Store on it. "Brother, take the things."

The deliveryman asked: "Do you have a QR code for receiving the goods?"

"Yes." He handed the screenshot of the QR code his son had just sent him to the deliveryman.

The deliveryman scanned the QR code with his mobile phone and said, "Customer, you have a lot of stuff. Let me help you carry it all up!"

"A bit too much?" Lao Zhao was a little unconvinced, and was about to say no: "No..."

The deliveryman took out a box of Little Mike bananas, a box of Gannan navel oranges and a box of Black Pearl cherry tomatoes from the van.

Then he took out the cart and put the three boxes on it.

"So many?" Old Zhao almost wanted to hit someone.

"That's all. Uncle, lead the way!"

"well…"

Deliver three boxes of fruit to your home.

After thanking the delivery man, Mr. Zhao called his son and scolded him as soon as he closed the door.

His wife just came back and saw her husband, who was furious, and three boxes of fruit in the living room: "Lao Zhao, who offended you?"

"You are such a good son. He bought three boxes of fruit without telling me. How can I eat them? Can I eat them as a meal?"

Gan Limei smiled and shook her head: "Calm down, I'll scold him later."

She put her coat away, took a utility knife, and cut open the linen straps of the packaging on top. Inside were shiny black pearl tomatoes.

"What kind of fruit is this? Grapes?" After taking a closer look and seeing the shape of the fruit stem, Gan Limei realized that it might be a tomato: "Is this a tomato?"

The box below contains bananas, and at the very bottom are navel oranges.

"Lao Zhao, try the banana."

Taking out a row of bananas, Gan Limei broke one for herself and another for her husband.

While watching TV, Lao Zhao peeled a banana and took a bite nonchalantly: "Hmm?"

The couple were both slightly stunned.

"Lao Zhao, why does this banana taste a little different?"

"You think so too? I thought it was just my illusion." Lao Zhao took another bite. He finished the smaller Little Mike in just two bites.

Gan Limei washed the cherry tomatoes and cut a navel orange. The couple tasted them and found that the fruits were very delicious.

At six o'clock in the evening, Lao Zhao's son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter all came back.

"Biao, how much are those fruits today?" asked Lao Zhao.

Zhao Biao, who was peeling a banana for his daughter, said: "It's just over 300 yuan."

Lao Zhao looked like he was telling you to continue making this up: "Do you think I don't go to the vegetable market?"

"Dad, why would I lie to you?"

"Dad, this banana is so delicious." The little granddaughter was taking a banana and eating it in big bites.

"The cheapest bananas in the vegetable market are 7 yuan per pound. Your box weighs pounds, plus navel oranges and cherry tomatoes, and you tell me it costs more than yuan?" Old Zhao sneered.

Zhao Biao shook his head, took out his phone and took a screenshot and sent it over: "You can see it yourself! I'm too lazy to explain."

After opening WeChat on his phone and looking at the screenshots for a while, Lao Zhao looked incredulous: "200 yuan for bananas? 10 yuan for 60 kilograms of navel oranges? 10 yuan for 80 kilograms of cherry tomatoes? Something is wrong! How can products of this quality be so cheap?"

"Old Zhao, what's the bargain?" Gan Limei came out with a plate of navel oranges.

Old Zhao said in surprise, "I mean these fruits are very cheap, so cheap that it's a bit shocking! Old lady, you often go to the vegetable market, how much are the small tomatoes, navel oranges, and bananas sold in the vegetable market now?"

"Dad, stop guessing." The daughter-in-law rolled her eyes at her husband and explained, "These fruits were purchased from the Hailufeng Company's supermarket in the suburbs. Their company's products are famous for their cheap prices and good quality."

"Hailufeng Company? Is it the company called Senzu Bean?" Old Zhao had some impression of it.

"It's that company." The daughter-in-law nodded: "This navel orange is good, Mom and Dad, you guys should eat it quickly..."

"I just ate."

Gan Limei shook her head: "Let Xiaona eat it! I had my teeth cleaned a few days ago, and now I feel a little uncomfortable eating sour food."

Zhao Biao, who works at the Agricultural Bureau, said at this time: "This banana is a good thing."

"Good stuff? Doesn't it just taste better?" Old Zhao said while eating navel oranges.

"Haha, this variety is an improved one from an old variety. In the past, there was a banana called Big Mike, and its taste was different from the bananas on the market today." Zhao Biao explained clearly.

Lao Zhao agrees with the taste of Little Mac bananas: "This banana tastes really different from ordinary bananas. If that old variety is so good, why didn't they plant it later?"

"Of course..." Zhao Biao explained the past and present life of the Big Mike banana.

The whole family also listened with great interest.

As Little Mike bananas were gradually put on the shelves in Hailufeng specialty stores, this matter naturally attracted a lot of attention.

In particular, those working in the agricultural sector bought Little Mike bananas to try as soon as possible and found that the taste was indeed fundamentally different from ordinary bananas.

(End of this chapter)