Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 176 New Shop Venue

At around 12 o'clock in the morning, Luo Cheng replenished the goods in the shop on the old street, and weighed and recorded each pot that was classified into different sizes.

That's all he has been doing in the future era recently, and there are also a lot of goods stored in private houses. In the past few days, the farmer's market has also found a shop. According to Liu Xiaofei's opinion, eels and loaches are highly profitable, so they are not afraid of higher rents.

With this idea in mind, basically as long as there are vacant shops in the market, there is really nothing that cannot be rented. But at the farmer's market, you can't just rent a shop and open it however you want. It has to be planned.

The market here has a good flow of people in the morning and afternoon. If the shop rent is not located at the intersection, it is actually not as expensive as the old street. The main reason is that the market here is well planned, with many stalls and shops. Everything sold is grouped together, and the competition is fierce. On the old street, there are actually a variety of snacks. The shops there are more expensive, and they may not only sell fresh vegetables, but they can also sell other things.

If Luo Cheng wanted to sell eels, loaches, turtles, etc., he would have to plan a shop in the row of aquatic products, and people there basically sell a mix of various products, some selling lobsters, fish, etc., as well as eels. Although the price of such a shop is not expensive, Luo Cheng, who only sells a few varieties, is not considered a mass shop. If it were anyone else, even if the rent of the shop is less than 4,000, they would not come here to sell.

There are many customers, but the diversion is also large. The prices are almost the same, as if there is negotiation between the merchants. For the same product, there is no obviously lower price.

In the past few days, Liu Xiaofei's sister was cashiering in the store. Luo Cheng and Liu Xiaofei actually went to several places besides the nearby farmer's market.

The main reason was that there were too many eels and loaches. Luo Cheng wanted to increase the processing speed, so he introduced a farmer's wholesale market through someone who owned a restaurant. Everything was cheap here, and many restaurants or canteens came here to purchase. Some nearby residents also come here to buy things, but the location is a bit out of the way.

The eels and loaches here are also cheaper than in ordinary markets, and they are usually sold both retail and wholesale here. But a place like this is not just a first-hand source of goods. There are also dealers who specialize in one product earlier in the morning. One pull can make a whole truck, and the price is even cheaper.

Those who pull a whole cart of the same product are the real first-hand vegetable sellers, and the next level up are the farmers in the production area.

Luo Cheng calculated this way, for ordinary vegetable market sellers, from farmers to hands, at least two or three merchants make the difference. And some dishes actually don't feel expensive. Luo Cheng really doesn't know how cheap the things sold by those who raise and grow them are.

Liu Xiaofei and Luo Cheng considered going to the wholesale market to sell, but finally gave up. The price they sold was already cheap, almost the same as the wholesale market. If you compare further, there may be something cheaper than what they sell. But there is one fact that must be recognized. What they sell is purely wild. Although there is not much difference between farmed eels and wild eels, because the eels are fed some fish, shrimps and worms, not hormone feed.

Many people go to places where there are eels at night to catch wild eels, but the prices are not high. If Luo Cheng went into wholesale, it would be a complete waste of his advantages. His big yellow eel would have to go the high-end route. Smaller eels do have similar effects to those of cultured eels, but those above one kilogram start to have obvious differences. Two or three kilograms, if it weren't for the highly hyped prices of lobsters and the like. The big lobster actually has to stand aside.

In addition, sales of soft-shell turtles in Luo Cheng have also begun to improve gradually. With a good reputation, people believed that what he sold was wild. Gradually, people who wanted to buy wild came to him.

People who are interested in wild turtles, except for restaurants as a special business, really don't care about dozens or hundreds of dollars more as a private person. Moreover, eating wild giant soft-shelled turtles can really boost people’s energy and blood, which is similar to giant eels.

Some people often sell crabs from a certain origin during the crab season. Selling them for a few months can earn them a year's worth of money from other industries. Now Luo Cheng also wants to learn from it. Recently, Big Yellow Eel only takes care of some old customers, and the price has increased to sixty-five. In this way, only a small amount is supplied at a time. Although he doesn't plan to sell things at the farmer's wholesale market, that place is a new world for Luo Cheng. There are chickens, ducks, geese, and eggs, and most of them are at wholesale prices. Many restaurants go there to buy eggs. Luo Cheng doesn't expect to find a wholesale place higher up right away, but he can buy eggs in baskets there, and the price is much cheaper than a pound at the wet market.

But if you buy a basket of eggs there, you have to pay an extra five yuan for the basket. Next time you buy something, bring an empty basket so you don’t have to pay for the basket.

Luo Cheng planned to use a tricycle to haul dozens of baskets. The price of one basket was now more than one hundred and thirty. The average price is a little more than four yuan per catty, and eggs are sold in supermarkets and snack places for about six yuan per catty.

Poultry is also cheap, but no matter how cheap live poultry is, it is not as cost-effective as eggs. There are also frozen products in the market over there. What makes Luo Cheng strange is that the frozen chickens and ducks that have been killed have no internal organs or anything, and the price is actually cheaper than the live ones. In Luo Cheng's opinion, they are all meat, fresh and frozen, and the price difference between them is a bit big. In his time, everyone might have bought frozen food.

What was even more amazing and what puzzled him was that among the frozen products, the whole ones were actually more expensive than those cut into pieces. Those who only sell chicken drumsticks are actually cheaper than the whole chicken. Luo Cheng can't understand this. If you want to say that living food is more expensive than frozen food, it can be said that it is fresh. The cut chicken pieces are cheaper than the whole chicken. Why?

There is also a frozen product called braised chicken nuggets, which are pure chicken nuggets. It’s only three or four yuan a pound. You don’t need to chop it up, so there’s nothing wasted.

Seeing this, Luo Chengdu didn't want to give live chickens and ducks to the communes of his era. He just gave these cheap chickens, and maybe everyone would be happy. But Luo Cheng couldn't tell the origin of this, and it was too hot to preserve.

In the early morning, after Luo Cheng got home, he took off his clothes and went to bed, placing his hands on the parts of Liu Xiaofei's body that he was used to. Once people form a habit, it is easy to form inertia. Regardless of how the position of Luo Cheng's hand was not suitable for children to see, as soon as he put it on it, he became accustomed to dozing off and fell asleep immediately.

I slept until I woke up naturally during the day, but I only had such days for a few days. The shop at the farmer's market was rented from the market management. The last store over there also sells aquatic products. It's a bit like the old street store that Luo Cheng and the others took over. It's not that they can't make money, but they make too little. The rent of the store in the market is rent, and the management fee is management fee.

Moreover, those who sell aquatic products must have some expenses, including more water and electricity than other industries. Luo Cheng: In fact, it doesn’t matter if it’s after six o’clock. Many traders go to some places to buy fish at two or three o’clock, and that’s when people really buy fish. When Luo Cheng was running a stall and shop, six o'clock was still too early.

In many industries, people get up early and wait until late, selling breakfast and getting up and busy at four in the morning.

People who left the previous store left some glass pools behind, which was considered a bargain for Luo Cheng and the others. Because you rent directly from the market management place, there is no transfer fee.

The only thing that dissatisfied Luo Cheng was that the market here closed early, so Luo Cheng couldn't use special methods to 'deliver goods'. Even though there is a back door in the market over there that opens earlier, for Luo Cheng, it cannot be inconvenient for him to be in the shop at twelve o'clock.

(End of this chapter)