Spring Thunder Chapter 0292 Retail
At Narita Airport, a mercenary codenamed Poison Master boarded a plane bound for Africa.
His mercenary team was on a mission in Africa, but he deserted and ran to Tokyo to do some private work. If he didn't go back quickly, his captain would tear him to pieces.
Nan Yi visited the trainees for several days and went to see where they worked and lived .
After reading it, he felt more at ease about charging the trainees 1.8 million yen. He did not mistreat the trainees, and neither did Ikeda in his trainee dispatch.
At the same time, he is also planning a new business, which is to continue to provide services to trainees after the three-year contract expires, charging them 30,000 to 50,000 yuan per month and providing them with legal aid, job renewal, introduction to new jobs, introduction of guarantors and other services.
By connecting with the Bank of the South, remittance and deposit services can be handed over to the Bank of the South, which will also increase the number of potential customers for the bank.
On the other side, Qiu Daming was still happy about saving a lot of money, but he didn't know that his troubles would come soon.
At this time, trainees and international students going to Tokyo from China need a guarantor who is a Japanese citizen or has permanent residency. The guarantor needs to have a stable income, which is not something a trainee who is unfamiliar with Tokyo can easily find.
Nan Yi has lost money on Qiu Daming. 150,000 yen is not enough to make up for the cost of sending Ikeda as a trainee to him. How could Nan Yi continue to provide help to Qiu Daming and undermine its own business? Nan Yi did not deal with Qiu Daming out of consideration for his compatriots.
Nan Yi had just come out of a factory when the school beauty who played the role of secretary beside him handed a two-pound mobile phone into his hand.
"President Nagao, I have completed what you asked me to do. Do you need me to send the information over now?"
"How about this, you go to Ginza and I'll treat you to tea at the teahouse Nonohana."
"Hayi, I'll be there right away."
An hour later, Nan Yi met Kikuchi Takayuki at the Nonohana Teahouse on Chuodōrō, Ginza.
Kikuchi Takashige sat down and said, "President Nagao, I have collected the information you requested."
While handing the information in his hand to Nan Yi with both hands.
Nan Yi poured a cup of tea for Kikuchi Takayuki and asked him to sit for a while. He opened the document and started reading it. He found that the document not only recorded the prices in different areas of Tokyo in detail, but also indicated his own views on the reasons for the different prices.
For example, near Ginza, the reason why prices are higher than in other areas is mainly due to high rents, few stores selling goods, and the relatively high incomes of nearby residents, which are enough to afford the high prices.
As I kept flipping through the documents, I found that the information recorded in the documents became more and more detailed. In addition, Kikuchi Takayuki classified different products according to their types and made them into tables with indexes.
At the end of the information, there is a list of suppliers for each product. Among similar products, there is a list of the three most suitable merchants based on price-performance ratio (high, medium and low end), and the contact information and purchase price are all marked on the list.
After reading the information, Nan Yi looked at his watch. Two hours had passed and Kikuchi Takayuki, who was sitting opposite him, had already taken a nap.
When Kikuchi Takayuki first arrived, Nan Yi noticed that his face was full of fatigue. In just a few days, he was able to come up with such detailed information by himself. He must have not had a good night's sleep these days.
For Kikuchi Takayuki, Nan Yi's request to collect information was the best opportunity for him, who came from a low-income family. Kikuchi Takayuki believed that the olive branch Nan Yi handed him was his biggest opportunity at the moment and the best chance for him to overcome the qualifications barrier.
Nan Yi did not wake up Kikuchi Takayuki, but gently closed the documents, moved the tea set on the table to the side, and sat there to slowly ponder the key details of the supermarket chain.
Nan Yi himself has never worked in the retail industry, and his understanding of supermarkets is only superficial. He has to make up for most of his knowledge in this area through cramming. Kikuchi Takayuki alone cannot support the Nan group's retail business, and he needs to poach some high- and mid-level talents from other supermarket chains.
Nan's company not only operates supermarkets, but also operates vegetable, meat, grain, oil and oil chain stores. Akesa Vegetable Company is an exploration of vegetable stores. In the future, Nan's company will definitely build its own vegetable, meat, grain, oil and fish supply system.
Shennong Nanliang not only has to engage in bulk trade, but also has to be involved in chain retail that directly faces end customers as well as the supply to restaurants and large canteens. Without good shipping channels, it will be easy for others to strangle it in the future and dump its grain into the sea.
"Nagao-kun?"
"Shh!"
Nan Yi raised his finger, hushed to Sayuri Hagiwara who greeted him, and then pointed at Kikuchi Takayuki.
Sayuri Hagiwara nodded in understanding and pointed to a seat by the window.
Nan Yi put away the information, quietly left his seat, and walked to the table of Sayuri Hagiwara. "It's only a little after two in the afternoon. Does Sayuri usually get up so early?"
"No, I usually sleep until about 3:30 in the afternoon, wash and put on makeup, and then go out at 4:30. Today is a little special because I went to attend a funeral."
"I can see it, she's wearing all black, and she has this." Nan Yi pointed to the envelope that Sayuri Hagiwara placed on the table. There were words on the envelope, and Nan Yi knew at a glance that it contained exorcism salt.
There is a custom in Japan that when you attend someone's funeral, the deceased's family will give the guests a packet of salt. In their eyes, salt is very pure and can be used to remove evil.
"Nagao-kun, are you free today? If you are, let's go bowling together." Sayuri Hagiwara made a formal invitation.
"Okay, but I still have work to do." Nan Yi looked at his watch and said, "At six o'clock, I'll treat you to a meal at Jiudanxia, and then we'll go play ball. What do you think?"
"Nagao-kun, there's no need to spend so much money, an ordinary restaurant will do."
"I haven't been there either. It's a good opportunity for me to try some traditional Edomae sushi. Yuri-chan, please take your time. I'll go back first."
"Please."
Sayuri Hagiwara stood up and bowed slightly to Nan Yi.
Nan Yi returned to his seat, and Kikuchi Takayuki had already woken up from his nap, "I'm so sorry, I actually fell asleep."
"It's okay, Kikuchi-kun, the information you compiled is very good, very detailed and intuitive, and it can be seen that you put a lot of effort into it. I believe that when you were collecting information, you should have discovered that Japan's retail industry is still in a barbaric era and growing wildly.
No chaebol has noticed this fertile land yet, so this is a great opportunity for us to enter the retail industry.
Kikuchi-kun, you are very capable. President Ikeda thinks highly of you, and I think highly of you too. So, you should go back and rest for two days, and then go find President Ikeda and rent a single-family building suitable for office use from Ikeda Company.
Then, you go and investigate and find three locations suitable for opening chain supermarkets. After these things are done, we will set up the company's framework and start formal operations.
By the way, before opening our supermarket, you can go to China to check out Walmart and Costco, as well as the Sam’s Club that Walmart just established this year.
I am talking about our Yi Retail. By the way, our company is called Yi Retail.
In my plan, Yi Retail will have three brands: 365 Supermarket, 007 Membership Store, and 996 Convenience Store. I hope that 365 Supermarket will be similar to Costco’s affordable model, 007 Membership Store will be similar to Sam’s Club, and 996 can learn from FamilyMart and 7-Eleven.”
When Kikuchi Takayuki woke up, his first reaction was panic. He didn't expect that he would fall asleep in such an important occasion. But Nan Yi's next words made Kikuchi Takayuki's eyes well up with tears. Kikuchi Takayuki felt that his sleepless efforts in the past few days had paid off.
A few days ago, when Kikuchi Takayuki was sorting out the information, he had imagined that the information he collected would enable him to be reused by Nan Yi. Kikuchi Takayuki did not expect that his fantasy would become a reality.
Kikuchi Takayuki quickly bowed to Nan Yi many times, his lips trembling. For someone like him who came from a lowly family, such an opportunity was simply a blessing from Amaterasu.
Nan Yi raised his hand to call a waiter over and pointed at Sayuri Hagiwara, "Take the bill for that lady."
"Okay, the total is 14,000 yen." The waiter quickly calculated the bill.
Nan Yi paid the money and said to Kikuchi Takayuki, "Kikuchi-kun has worked hard these past few days. Go back and have a good rest for two days. Two days are enough for you to have a short vacation at the beach in Okinawa or Naha.
If you don’t want to go far, you can also go to Yui Beach in Kanagawa. The warm autumn is about to pass, so take your girlfriend and catch the tail of the sunshine.
Enjoy yourself, and when you come back, you can claim back 500,000 yen in vacation money.”
"Thank you, thank you." Kikuchi Takayuki kept bowing to Nan Yi.
Nan Yi waved his hand and left.
When Kikuchi Takayuki saw Nan Yi leave, he pinched the back of his hand and found that everything he had experienced was reality and not a dream.
He sat there blankly, and soon tears began to flow. As a man from the bottom of society, he had suffered too much and endured too much pain since he started school.
He swallowed all these hardships one by one. Since he matured mentally, he has only cried twice. The last time was the day he received his first salary.
The University of Tokyo is a famous and good school, but the expenses are also not small. In order to raise tuition, Kikuchi Takayuki worked three jobs at the same time. He had to get up early in the morning to deliver newspapers, help serve food in the cafeteria during meal times, and work as a cleaner in a love hotel at night.
In this way, Kikuchi Takayuki grew up slowly. He told himself that he must be capable, only in this way could he truly escape from the quagmire of the bottom of society.
The opportunity given by Nan Yi is the chance for Kikuchi Takayuki to cross class, and he must seize it.
Nan Yi had no idea that Kikuchi Takayuki had so many inner thoughts. If he knew, he would definitely slap this guy twice. Damn, he really thinks he is the protagonist, right?
Nan Yi returned to the car and immediately called Liang Huiwen. After a few words, the Motorola DynaTAC-8000X ran out of battery. He threw the broken phone down, slapped the satellite signal receiver on the roof of the car, and called back using the satellite phone.
After finishing the call with Liang Huiwen, Nan Yi called Rachel again. He instructed her to register an independent retail company in New York, and then register the three brands 365, 007, and 996.
Then these three brands were authorized to a Japanese company and a joint venture company registered in Shenzhen for joint operation. Three independent companies operated three common brands at the same time, and one of them sold them retail and collected usage fees from the other two brands.
On the surface, this looks like brand licensing and OEM, just like when you search for "thermal underwear" online in the coming winter, you'll see "Mr. Nan" everywhere, all of them are OEM. In fact, Mr. Nan himself doesn't do this at all.
The advantage of doing this is that it can easily become a "local enterprise". In Nan Yi's view, a local enterprise is one that is registered locally, pays taxes locally, keeps the money earned locally, and recruits workers locally.
The benefits remain in the local area and will naturally be favored by local policies.
Of course, there are disadvantages as well, which is that it is not easy to develop a retail business into a large multinational enterprise with business operations all over the world.
However, this disadvantage is not a disadvantage for Nan Yi. He has never thought that there would be any large enterprises under the Nan Group. Nan Yi has a special liking for small and micro enterprises. Whoever likes large enterprises can go for large enterprises. Anyway, he is determined to fight with small and micro enterprises.
"Campus belle, has Dewen called? Where is she on vacation now?" After finishing the call, Nan Yi asked the school belle.
"She called yesterday and said she was in Izu."
"one person?"
"Two people."
"Oh, then let her have a good vacation. If she can give birth to a baby, I will raise it for her."
Hearing Nan Yi's words, the school beauty couldn't help but roll her eyes. It would be strange if Dewen could make her girlfriend give birth to a child, unless she found a boyfriend.
"Ha, drive." Nan Yi amused himself.
"Where are you going?"
"It's still early. Let's find a place to sit for a while. I need to take care of some things." After Nan Yi finished speaking, he turned his head and looked out the window. As the car moved forward, the buildings on the roadside passed by.
After a while, a huge poster came into his sight.
There was a man with long hair on the poster, holding an electric guitar in his hand. Nan Yi turned his head twice and looked carefully before he realized that the person on the poster was Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi.
"How are the lyrics of Dragonfly written..." Nan Yi hummed in his heart. He could hum 80% of the melody, but he couldn't remember a single word of the lyrics. It was not surprising. In his previous life, he only knew a few Japanese words and couldn't understand the lyrics, let alone remember them.
“Forget it, it seems that this song hasn’t been released yet.”
Nan Yi thought of the Shonentai from Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi. The Shonentai probably hadn't released a record yet and were dancing as backup dancers for Matchy; when he thought of Matchy, he thought of his "ex-girlfriend" Nakamori Akina.
I don't know if these two will get together...
"I have a fairy wand that can make me bigger, smaller and prettier. Only Doraemon can help me realize my dream. I have a cute round face and a fat face. Doraemon hangs on my body and always helps me when I don't know what to do..."
As he was thinking, Nan Yi hummed a song from Doraemon called "The Enemy Built It for Us" and his mood became very relaxed.
The car did not drive to any cafe or teahouse, but just drove to a small garden, and Nan Yi sat on a chair by the roadside.
"Campus beauty, go buy me a can of coffee from the vending machine."
"OK."
The school beauty walked towards a vending machine on the roadside and quickly bought a bunch of drinks. When she gave the coffee to Nan Yi, she said, "President, when I was shopping, I saw someone put 500 Korean won into the vending machine, and it actually worked."
Nan Yi took the coffee, put it aside, and said, "It's normal. The size and material of South Korea's 500-yen coin are the same as those of the 500-yen coin, but it's a little heavier. The person you saw should have put the coin on the ground and rubbed it before inserting it, right?"
"I didn't see it when it was being sharpened, but the coin seems to have been sharpened."
"The recognition system in the vending machine can only judge the weight and size when identifying the item. As long as the two match, it can be used.
School Beauty, the person you saw spending Korean won probably got it from the local biker gangs here, and it probably only costs 100 or 200 yen each."
“Is the profit high?”
"The current exchange rate between the Japanese yen and the Korean won is about 1 to 3.2. In addition, this is illegal, so there will naturally be a lot of extra costs. The profit is not that great. I guess it's just a bunch of bosozoku or punks who are doing this."
Nan Yi replied and continued to look down at the documents in his hand.
The first transaction with Takefuji has been completed. As Japan's largest loan shark company, it actually holds bad debts of more than 6,000 acres of arable land. Normally, the bad debt rate is only 20% to 30%, which means that at least 20,000 acres of arable land have been pledged by Takefuji.
This batch of farmland was purchased at a 25% premium. Takei Yasuo could earn at least 60% profit from the difference between the price. With such a high profit, Nan Yi didn't believe that Takei Yasuo would not think about buying more farmland.
Most of the acquired arable land is concentrated in the three prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa and Gunma, with the largest area in Kanagawa, which is 2,700 acres.
1,200 acres of Kanagawa's arable land are located in Hiratsuka City. The original owner was a wealthy landlord who squandered his fortune playing pachinko. He is considered a talented person.
These 1,200 acres of land are connected. Nan Yi wanted to take some time to go to Kanagawa to see this land and see if it is possible to flatten it for large-scale agricultural mechanization operations.
The plain area in Japan is very small, and most of it has become cities in the process of urbanization.
There is not much flat land left that can be used for farming. Most of the arable land is hilly, with ups and downs. Moreover, the land is privately owned, so large-scale mechanized agriculture is simply unrealistic.
Japan's agriculture is developing micro-tillage technology, and in the field of agricultural machinery, micro-tillage machines are developed, with different planting and harvesting tools used in different terrains.
After reading the document, Nan Yi drew a red circle on his own land based on the map of the city where the land was located. After marking, he began to look through the Japanese agricultural layout map to see what type of planting zone his land was in.
Japan is already developing a refined and specialized agricultural development path based on regional divisions. Different counties and cities within the Tokyo metropolitan area will choose a suitable variety to plant, artificially creating tomato towns and cabbage towns.
Concentrated planting, with different varieties planted in different regions, to avoid internal competition.
