Chapter 037 Because of Technology
Dart Harbour.
As the place where Sapiens started , it is also one of the areas most affected.
After the merger and integration, Fengrao House opened Fengrao Supermarket, Fengrao Hotel, and Fengrao Fast Food here, and also controlled the local farmers' market, wharf, and bus station.
The person in charge of this business is Huang Keming, who previously worked at Watsons in Hong Kong.
He was inspecting the work of various business units in Dart Port at the moment. After all, this place was right under the eyes of the big boss. If something went wrong, no matter how well he did in other places, it would be useless.
After comprehensive integration, House of Abundance has a lot of resources at its disposal.
For example, farmers' markets, warehouses, transportation companies, hotels, supermarkets, and fast food companies can actually be connected into a single industry.
In addition, the various plantations and farms of the Fernando family are also strategic partners of the House of Abundance.
Huang Keming, who worked in supply chain management at Watsons, knew very well that Fengzaozhijia could open up these links, which would mean improved efficiency and reduced costs.
For example, the eggs I bought from the supermarket before cost about 70 pesos per dozen (12 eggs), equivalent to 9 Chinese yuan, and the retail price was around 90 pesos.
After reintegration, the current cost price of eggs has been compressed to around 31 pesos.
The cost prices of various agricultural products have been reduced to varying degrees, which naturally represents profits and competitiveness.
You should know that the average salary of ordinary people in Luzon is between 4,800 and 6,500 pesos per month, which is equivalent to 600 to 800 yuan per month.
The wages are so low, but the consumption level is equivalent to that of second- and third-tier cities in China. One can imagine the living standards of the local people.
Naturally, House of Plenty respects the local wage level, and the wages it offers are not much different from those of local companies.
The reason for not offering high wages is, on the one hand, to avoid hostility from local companies, and on the other hand, to avoid capital outflow.
With low wages, employees' savings are reduced, and those employees naturally will not spend the money on more expensive mobile phones, cars and luxury goods.
While the wages were low, the House of Plenty, or the entire Homo Sapiens system, adopted another supplement, which was employee performance points.
The current model uses 1 point equal to 1 peso, allowing employees to use points to obtain a 20% discount when making purchases in their own stores.
If an employee buys a dozen eggs at the Supermarket of Fusion at a price of 90 pesos, he actually only needs to pay 72 pesos, and the remaining 18 pesos can be deducted from the points.
Moreover, when employee cards are used privately, employees' relatives are basically allowed to make purchases with the cards.
The purpose of doing this is very simple. On the one hand, it is to stimulate employee consumption and to absorb the employees' wages back into the company's hands; on the other hand, it is to suppress other competitors.
The last purpose is to stabilize prices. Even if market prices suddenly soar, the Sapiens company can adjust the price level in the controlled area through performance points, which is equivalent to obtaining a part of monetary sovereignty.
Since performance points can only be used within the company and are circulated in the southern part of Luzon, they have not attracted the attention of Manila so far.
Currently, the performance points issued by various subsidiaries of Zhiren Company to employees account for about 20% to 30% of the employees' income.
Faced with the vicious competition from House of Plenty, other supermarkets, shops and fast food restaurants in Dart Harbour have begun to feel the pressure.
Although other businesses can also give customers discounts or send coupons to customers.
The problem is that behind the House of Plenty is the entire Homo Sapiens enterprise. Those subsidiaries have a lot of employees, and together with their relatives, the consumption power of the entire city has been siphoned off.
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"Have you heard?" a middle-aged woman with buck teeth whispered.
Another woman carrying a basket of vegetables asked: "What did you hear?"
The bucktoothed woman whispered, "Tomorrow the entire store at Fengrao Supermarket will be 10% off, and there will also be special discounted items. Only those who arrive first can get the discounted items."
"Really?"
"My neighbor's relative works at Fengzao Supermarket. This is inside information."
"Working at Fengzao Supermarket? I envy them so much. They get preferential prices and internal discounts."
These things quickly spread among the common people in Dart Port through the mouths of some women.
The owners of other supermarkets or shops looked sad and secretly cursed that House of Plenty would go bankrupt soon.
But it is the nature of many people to be greedy for small profits.
Especially those ordinary people, they will not give up the coupons of Fengrao Supermarket just because this store is a time-honored brand.
In addition, the prices of goods in Fengrao Supermarket are slightly lower than those in other supermarkets, which naturally makes it more attractive.
the next morning.
Before Fengrao Supermarket opened, there was already a crowd of women queuing at the door.
When the supermarket manager and his employees opened the door, the crowd suddenly rushed into the supermarket like a wave, shouting and rushing to buy things.
Faced with this scene, other shops around the commercial street felt extremely distressed and helpless.
Not far from Fengrao Supermarket, a recruitment store affiliated with Coral Construction Company was also crowded with applicants.
Recently, Coral Construction Company has won a lot of engineering projects, and its own employees are unable to meet the needs of engineering construction, so it began to recruit a large number of construction workers.
The act of coral construction also has the purpose of providing work in lieu of relief.
The wealthy Homo Sapiens company approved the construction projects of five employee communities at once, one of which was located in the suburbs of Dart Port.
The construction of these five employee communities is currently being undertaken by Coral Construction. Among them, the Dart Port community has a planned area of 1,000 households in the first phase.
Of course, this kind of staff housing is not allocated to employees, but rented to employees. However, the rent is very low, planned to be 1 peso per square meter per month, and points can also be used to offset part of it.
Perhaps many people would think that when the wage level is higher than that of regional peers, the competitiveness of the enterprise will decline.
There is nothing wrong with this statement .
But there must be a prerequisite, that is, the enterprise is not a giant enterprise.
Many times, enterprises and giant enterprises cannot be completely equated, and the rules that apply to enterprises may lose their effect on giant enterprises.
So what is a giant enterprise?
It covers birth, aging, illness and death, food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care and education, culture and entertainment, energy and minerals, finance, the Internet, military industry and warfare, scientific research, equipment development, etc.
Companies that have controlled the entire industrial chain from upstream to downstream are called "giant enterprises."
Any isolated single-industry enterprise will find it difficult to compete with giant companies.
Just like Fengzaojia at this moment, it is also a supermarket, but the purchase cost of Fengzaojia is only about half of that of other companies. How do other companies compete?
This kind of crushing of the industrial chain is sometimes unreasonable.
Although the Sapiens Company has not yet evolved into a fully-fledged giant enterprise, it already has the prototype of a giant enterprise. Combined with the cooperation with the local Fernando family, it is more than enough to destroy those local companies.
The future will definitely be the era of giant enterprises.
Li Qingye had already seen through the nature of human society at this time, and naturally had accurate deductions about the future of mankind.
Why is he so sure?
Because of technology.
Yes, it’s because of technology.
