nashuaworldcup Chapter 570: Price Reduction for Lease
Chapter 570: Price Reduction for Lease
I set a curfew at 8 o'clock for Zhou Xiaoyao, but I also have to go back at 8 o'clock to keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't run around.
So, does this access control restrict her or you?
Lu Qiang and Cui Wenzhong's mouth twitched, thinking that Brother Gu was worthy of being Brother Gu. Even though he didn't attend classes, he seemed to have mastered the Chinese grammar that they didn't understand at all.
Gu Ming took advantage of the time to chat, tidied the bed, and climbed onto it: "Did anything new happen in the school while I was away?"
"Yes, some time ago, the food delivery platform in school seemed to be over, with crazy discounts, and I ate all the food."
Lu Qiang patted his belly, and the fat he had lost with great effort seemed to have grown back.
To be honest, some people are not born to be too thin. After Qiangzi gained weight back, he looks better than before.
After hearing this, Cui Wenzhong also reached out his hand: "I eat 1 meals a day, all delicious, but each meal costs no more than 6 yuan, it's so delicious."
"This is really new. I don't seem to know anything about it."
Gu Ming said with a crooked mouth.
College students like Qiangzi and Zhongzi eat as much as they can when they see food, but they are not likely to delve into the reasons behind the platform's crazy subsidies.
They felt that they had lost a lot of money during the week that Gu Ming was away, as they couldn't even order such cheap takeout. However, they never imagined that this big price reduction on the platform was entirely because he was backing the little rich woman.
At this moment, Master Li seemed to come alive and added: "During those days, I spent a lot of money. Every day's lunch and dinner were like a full banquet. Old Gu, what you ate at the Internet Conference may not be as good as mine. If you don't believe me, you can look at my circle of friends."
"Believe it, I believe it."
"It's a pity that the price has returned to its original level since you came back. It's fate."
Li Minghe had the illusion that he had finally defeated Gu Ming in some way: "If you had come back two days earlier, maybe you could have eaten for free. Qiangzi and Zhongzi would eat my midnight snacks every day."
Lu Qiang and Cui Wenzhong nodded: "Brother Li was indeed generous last week."
Gu Ming leaned against the bedside: "I don't know what you said. I only know that there was a meal app. I didn't like it, so I targeted it in the college student market. Hungry didn't know the news and mistakenly thought I was targeting it, so it cut prices like crazy. The meal business started to lose, and I had no choice but to cut prices as well."
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"The price war lasted for a week, and the meal time was gone. Hungry didn't realize that I was not targeting it, so it gradually restored the price."
Gu Ming adjusted his sitting position: "For an o1o oligarch like me, my words are like the roar of a lion now."
The atmosphere in Room 302 suddenly became silent. There was only a small moth flying around the incandescent lamp on the top of the dormitory. It seemed as if it was the only moving thing in the whole world.
After a while, Qiangzi took the basin to wash up. When he passed by Li Minghe's bed, he paused and stretched out his finger to feel his breath.
"Are you still alive?"
"Still alive," Qiangzi touched his face again, "He's still warm."
Cui Wenzhong breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the voice, thinking to himself it must be my brother Li. This is equivalent to being hit head-on by a big blow, but he is still alive, he is simply indestructible!
Then he turned sideways, facing the corner, and started chatting on the phone with Wang Linlin.
At this time, Gu Ming also pulled up the quilt to cover himself, touched his mobile phone and took a look, and found that the WeChat group of 1 had been chatting to 503+.
There is no useful content in it, just emoticons that irrigate the screen.
This emoticon package shows a round-headed child sipping milk tea. Zhong Wenjing posted it, and Wang Haini also posted it, and tagged him, as if it was sent to him.
The news about the little rich woman was mixed in among these emoticons, and she looked a little panicked.
[Don’t post this, Wang Haini, you are a bad person]
[Wen Jing is also a bad person. I will never give you bonuses again.]
Then she also posted two emoticons, one was a round-faced little girl with a frown, and the other was a pitiful-looking little hamster.
Gu Ming looked at it for a while, but couldn't figure out what was going on.
What's so good about this emoticon? The abnormal people in the dormitory of the little rich woman are simply incomprehensible.
"Zhou Xiaoyao, go to bed early and don't play too late."
"I know, I'm going to sleep now."
Zhou Xiaoyao sent an emoticon that said "I slept well", and the group gradually became quiet.
The next morning, the sun shone in through the window. When I opened my eyes, it was already bright outside.
Gu Ming drove to the group-buying headquarters and convened a meeting with the brands in Jinan. First, he talked about the completely crazy upgrade plan for the business district 1, and second, he asked them to send a manager to Shanghai to participate in the discussion of the Baihua Valley project.
He single-handedly established the strategic cooperation model of the Northern Business Association, and this linkage model of making money together has now become very mature.
Online group shopping is used as a platform to attract user traffic, while offline, Wanzhong is used as a platform to aggregate business district resources.
Coupled with the group supply chain, supply and cost compression are carried out from the origin.
The development of the takeout industry has also allowed them to support a large number of small fast food brands in a short period of time. Currently, the business network of group buying + business associations is pervasive.
What an Internet platform relies on is resource integration, while what a physical store needs is sufficient traffic. This was Gu Ming’s plan two years ago, and now it has become a reality.
The boss of the Northern Business Group has almost become superstitious about Gu Ming, thinking that he is the human incarnation of the God of Wealth. Maybe one day they will see him holding a coin and shouting "Transformation".
So after hearing the arrangement, the bosses of major brands mobilized their staff, flew to Shanghai, attended the Baihua Valley investment promotion conference, and signed contracts.
For a project that has not yet started and only has a project book, the early investment promotion was concluded in just 1 days.
At this time, Joy City was still encountering repeated setbacks in the process of attracting investment, which made the Zhou Group, from executives to employees, begin to feel uneasy.
Two months ago, the Zhou Group had just undergone a split, and Qin Real Estate became completely independent, cutting off business dealings with Zhoushi Real Estate.
It was also at that time that Zhou Group experienced a wave of large-scale layoffs, and many old employees were optimized.
The employees and executives who were not laid off thought they were quite lucky, as they at least kept their jobs.
And according to their experience, once a company has laid off employees, there will not be such a large-scale layoff for at least 1 years.
But the reality is not optimistic.
Hurricane Investment suffered consecutive investment failures, and Zhou Real Estate's "Joy City" project investment promotion was hindered.
If this continues, another round of layoffs is not out of the question in order to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
The board of directors is also somewhat worried about Zhou's current development.
"Joy City is a new brand after all. It is normal for investment to be unsuccessful. After all, when Qin Jingqiu was in office, all commercial real estate projects were carried out under the name of Qin Real Estate. Although we are an old company, we now need Regain brand influence.”
Zhou Shirong stood in front of the French window, with a large group of company executives sitting behind him: "When building a shopping mall, location is the most important, and our location is better than that of Baihua Valley Mall."
Huang Weitao, director of the real estate business group, nodded: "This is not bad."
"So we have an advantage, but since we don't have the ability to attract investment, let's offer a two-year discount on rent. Let's build up the Joy City brand first."
In the current commercial complex industry, Wanda is the best at branding, while Baihua Valley is the best at attracting investment.
If Joy City wants to get a piece of the cake, it can’t do it without cutting the meat first.
They have a good location and large traffic flow. As long as they offer rent discounts for two years, promote investment attraction, make the first mall prosperous and establish brand value, merchants will naturally flock to the second and third Joy Cities.
To put it simply, they want to use the first "Joy City" as a model.
"We have invested a large amount of funds in this project, and we also need preferential rents. It is a big burden for the company."
"But this is the most appropriate solution at present. If we hesitate at this step, it will be difficult to proceed with the subsequent work."
"Okay, Mr. Zhou, I'll arrange for the investment promotion department to do it."
After Joy City’s rental preferential plan was introduced, it did attract a large number of brands to discuss cooperation.
Just as Zhou Shirong said, Joy City has a good location and a large amount of traffic around it. After the rent became cheaper, it is indeed attractive enough, and the investment promotion work has gradually become smoother.
However, the concerns among executives and employees have not diminished.
The Joy City project has a slow recovery rate, and even with the rent discount, Zhou still does not have enough profitability.
Although the layoff plan has saved the group a large amount of cash flow, they don't know what will happen in the future under this operating model with weak profits but huge investments.
As a result, there began to be more private discussions, and many people missed Qin Jingqiu's presence.
Voices like "If Mr. Qin were here..." were mentioned repeatedly during this special period.
Zhou Shirong could hear it occasionally, but when he heard it he could only pretend that he didn't hear it.
After he returned to China, he failed to make the Zhou family prosper in a short period of time. Compared with the period when Qin Jingqiu was in power, there was indeed a kind of sluggish situation. This is an indisputable fact.
In particular, his two mistakes in wanting to invest in the Internet industry also reduced his prestige.
But he felt that this was only temporary, and the Joy City project would definitely bring Zhou's company to its peak.
Zhou Shirong put his hands in his pockets, looked at the bustling Shanghai outside the floor-to-ceiling window, pursed his lips, and at this moment thought of his daughter and her boyfriend.
During this period, he read a lot of information about Gu Ming and understood the cooperation model of the northern business community. He knew that his son-in-law, whom he had never met, was not only engaged in Internet platform development.
In his industrial chain, those dazzling brands are enough to support the traffic required by a commercial complex.
1Thinking of this, Zhou Shirong fell into a long silence.