start with a pet store

Chapter 997 Weird things happen every year, especially this year

"Being dirty is no big deal. Take it inside for a checkup. I don't know if there's something stuck in its mouth. It can't close its mouth and I don't know how long it's been. It can't even drink water. It looks so pitiful..." Ji Ling jogged behind it.

When Lu Jingxing parked the car and came in, Yang Pei had already put the little guy on the examination equipment.

Soon he came out: "I saw it."

"What?" Lu Jingxing couldn't help but walk over and asked.

"There must be something like bone stuck inside the tooth. I will take it out right away." After Yang Pei finished speaking, she turned around and went back to the treatment room.

When the little guy saw Lu Jingxing, he started to cry, as if he had seen a relative.

Although it was very dirty, seeing the poor little thing's appearance, Lu Jingxing still reached out and gently touched its head: "It will be fine soon..."

Yang Pei skillfully picked out the foreign object in just a few moves.

It was indeed just a small piece of bone, but because it had been in the mouth for too long, it had been worn down to a white color.

After the bone was removed, the little guy's upper and lower jaws kept moving, and he seemed a lot more relaxed.

Lu Jingxing put it into the cage, poured water and put food in it.

The little guy immediately started drinking non-stop.

It didn't stop until the small basin of water was almost empty.

"I'm so thirsty..." Ji Ling also came over.

"Yes, he doesn't eat anything and just drinks water." Lu Jingxing watched the little guy patiently finish drinking the water before eating the food.

Seeing Yang Pei coming out again, Lu Jingxing stood up and said, "I'll leave it to you. I'm going back to the store and I'll arrange for it to have a bath..."

"Okay, leave the rest to me, you guys go..." Yang Pei waved to the two of them.

The little one, who was eating dog food with big mouthfuls, suddenly started barking while biting the cage. When he saw Lu Jingxing and the others were about to leave, he jumped up and down in a hurry and refused to eat the food.

"Are you recognized?" Yang Pei said with a smile.

Lu Jingxing turned around with a smile, bent down, put two fingers in, and gently touched its head: "Okay, okay, just stay here and be good. I'll come to see you later..."

The little guy immediately lay down and started crying again.

When Lu Jingxing turned around and left again, it looked at him through the cage with tears in its eyes. It did not turn around and continue eating dog food until the car drove away.

Lu Jingxing and Ji Ling turned around and quickly returned to the first store. Xi Wenxin was standing at the door talking to someone. When he saw the two people get off the car, he hurried over to greet them: "Ding Fang asked for leave, so I will watch over the front desk for a while. It will be fine when Lingzi comes back. It just so happens that Doctor Liu and the new Doctor Fang are both in surgery. I have an operation here that needs your help. Can you help keep an eye on it?"

"Okay, no problem, go ahead." Ji Ling walked to the front desk with a smile.

Xi Wenxin immediately followed Lu Jingxing to the operating room.

Ji Ling hadn't been at the front desk for many days, but she was very familiar with the business, so she still followed her old steps.

There were not many people in the hall today. Just as she was concentrating on calculating the bill, a female customer came in from outside. She was dressed in a neutral style and walked directly to the counter. After looking for a while, she shouted to Ji Ling, "Waiter..."

When the employee of Cattery No. 1 heard the shouting, she hurried over here. Ji Ling waved at her: "I'll do it, you go and do your own thing..." It seemed that Ding Fang said goodbye to her when she left.

When the employee heard Ji Ling say she was coming, he immediately returned to his post.

"Hello..." Ji Ling had already changed into his work clothes and walked up to the customer with a smile on his face.

"These are all dog food, right?" the customer asked, pointing at the dog food cabinet.

"Oh, yes, these three rows are all dog food..." Ji Ling pointed to the cabinet in front of her.

“This is…” The customer pointed to a yellow bag of dog food in the fourth row and patted it.

"Oh, this one is duck meat, and the one next to it is chicken. Let me tell you which flavor you want." Ji Ling took a step closer.

The customer directly picked up a bag and threw it into her hand: "This is it, this one will do."

The bag weighed ten kilograms. When she threw it over, Ji Ling immediately caught it with both hands and pushed down: "Okay, take a look and see if you want anything else. We have everything here."

"Well, let me see. Oh, by the way, is there something that can be sprayed on the body in the summer to repel insects?" The woman said as she made gestures.

"Yes, yes, yes, here..." Ji Ling put the dog food next to the cabinet in front of the front desk, then took the customer to a cabinet at the back and pointed to a row of sprays and said, "This is..."

On the board in front of the spray are words like [Ants] [Fleas] [Mosquitoes] [Cockroaches] [Lice] [Ticks], and Ji Ling introduced them to the customers: "These basic insects written on them can be prevented. It's very simple, just spray it when you go out, just don't spray it on your face."

The woman looked at it and nodded: "Then take a bottle."

She took a bottle and handed it to Ji Ling, then looked at the red and orange glass bottles next to the cabinet: "What is this? Dog drink?"

"Yes, it's puppy drink." Ji Ling nodded.

"Wow, this is made just like human drinks, it seems to be all Chinese, and all imported?" The customer looked at it again and again, and then decided to put it up.

"Yes, it's from Country H..." Ji Ling replied.

"Really? I knew it was from Country H. The packaging is really beautiful. Wow, it's not cheap. It's more expensive than what I drink. Eh..." The woman shook her head as she spoke, and then continued to look at other things on the cabinet.

After looking around, he shook his head and said, "Can you help me calculate how much those two are?"

Ji Ling immediately replied: "The total cost of these two is 312 yuan."

"Three hundred and twelve yuan, can you help me calculate the member price..." the woman looked at Ji Ling and said, "Hey, are you a member?" Ji Ling hadn't been at the front desk for a long time, and because she had never seen this customer before, she didn't know whether she was a member or not.

"Member, this is my first time here," the woman said.

"I'm sorry, only members here have discounts. Either you become a member, or you can only pay the original price because the member price will be deducted from the membership fee..." Ji Ling said.

"The deduction will be made from the membership. Whose membership will be deducted from the membership?" the customer asked.

Ji Ling was stunned by her question. After a pause, she said, "Of course, the fee will be deducted from the member's balance."

"Then what about your membership?" The woman kept fanning herself.

"Our membership starts at 1288, and goes up to 1288, 2258, and so on..." said Ji Ling.

"Then I'll recharge it. I have 312 yuan, and if I recharge three times for 128 yuan, I'll have plenty left." The woman said before Ji Ling finished speaking.

"No, our minimum charge is 1,288." Ji Ling said with a gentle smile.

"Oh my god, one thousand two hundred and eighty-eight, that's a bit much. Why is the minimum charge in your pet shop so expensive? The minimum charge at the hair salon is only one or two hundred." The woman said with disgust: "Oh, that's what you are going to do. Just charge me the member price and you can do it yourself when the time comes." The woman waved her hand.

"I'm sorry, our prices are clearly marked. If there's any missing, I have to put it up. It's really indispensable." Ji Ling said in embarrassment.

"Okay, let me calculate... one, two, eight, eight, three, one, two..." The customer took the calculator from the table and started typing on it while talking. Then she said, "Come on, come on, it'll be just a few dozen dollars less. How about this, I..." She turned around and looked at the cabinet.

"Sister, I really can't do without it. How about I give you a box of canned food? You see, your price is 18 yuan less after the discount. My box of canned food is 15 yuan." Ji Ling said speechlessly.

"This..." The woman picked up the can that Ji Ling gave her and shook her head. "I don't want this. It's such a small can. Besides, my dog ​​won't eat this stuff. How about this? I think this drink is good. Your can is 15, and the membership is 18. Then I'll take a bottle of drink. This one is 15. Oh, this one is also 18. Just give me 36 less and I'll give you the money."

Her output immediately made Ji Ling completely EMO, and he couldn't keep up with her rhythm for a long time.

"Sister, I'm not as good at selling as I am at buying. What do you mean?" Ji Ling thought she was good at math, but she really didn't understand what the customer meant.

"Sister, how come you don't understand this..."

"Sister, I really don't understand what you mean?" Ji Ling couldn't keep up with her rhythm at all. In addition, the woman's voice was loud and she kept talking, so Ji Ling couldn't think about the twists and turns she said.

The woman waved her hand and said, "You don't have to be so polite. Just settle the bill for me and then reduce the total bill by thirty-six dollars."

As she said that, she prepared to pay, pick up her things and leave.

Ji Ling hasn't recovered from her daze yet: "But, sister..."

“Oh, stop calling me sister, let me calculate it for you…” The woman took the calculator and said, “Look, this is An An An, that is An An An, and this is eighteen. Well, I will pay you three hundred and forty-eight in total…”

Then she took out three hundred and fifty yuan and put it on the table: "Here, just give me two yuan change, and I'll leave."

"No, sister, the previous amount is three hundred and twelve, plus the drink is seventy-two, which makes three hundred and eighty-four. How did you get three hundred and forty-eight? This won't do." Ji Ling still didn't understand. Regardless of whether the discount could be given, she had to figure out her calculation method.

"What's wrong with that? You just give me the member price, and that was something you said you would give me for free, but I don't want it anymore, right? Just deduct the amount. You used the member price to reduce the amount by eighteen yuan, and then added the fifteen yuan for that broken can, and then added the three yuan for this, that's thirty-six yuan off. What's so unclear about that? You're not a smart girl. You must not have studied hard, so you can't even figure out this kind of arithmetic." The woman's PUA almost burned out Ji Ling's CPU.

"Sister, your calculation is wrong. We don't have discounts in the first place. Now you not only want to give a discount, but also want to cash out the discount I said I would give away. How can I sell it?" Ji Ling was completely convinced.

"That's what you said you would give it to me as a gift. I said no. You said fifteen dollars, so just give it in cash. What's the problem with that? And there's an eighteen-dollar membership difference on top of that. Count it all together. Oh, there's also a three-dollar membership difference. How is that wrong?" The woman spoke so confidently that Ji Ling didn't want to talk for a long time.

"The prices are clearly marked in the store. You have to recharge 1,288 to enjoy the membership discount. I really have no say in this..." Ji Ling confiscated her money.

"Come on, if you really can't find a solution, then I'll go look somewhere else. It doesn't matter where I buy it. Why do I have to buy it from you..." The woman took the money and ran away angrily.

The cattery employee looked at Ji Ling who was confused: "Sister Lingzi, she is..."

Seeing the customer leave angrily, Ji Ling did not try to keep her and just watched her go out.

"We originally only gave a 95% discount for recharges, but she calculated the discount herself and even deducted the money I said was a gift. This business can't be done." Ji Ling shook her head and put the things she took down back to their original places one by one.

Old customers know that the items on display at the counters in the store are not discounted. In fact, even if you recharge, the discounts are basically on bathing, beauty and the like. There are no discounts on cat food and dog food because the profit is not high.

Therefore, the store will never lower prices in order to retain customers, like small pet stores do, for fear that customers will leave.

"I was stunned by what she did. However, I seemed to have seen her here yesterday. She was received by Ding Fang. It was the same thing. In the end, Ding Fang didn't give her less..." the cattery employee said after thinking for a while.

"Oh? There is such a thing. You came here yesterday and did the same thing again today?" Ji Ling found it a little unbelievable.

"Yes, when she came yesterday, Ding Fang introduced the dog food brand, flavors and so on to her for a long time. She also looked at the drink for a long time." said the employee.

"No wonder I got straight to the point today. I didn't even introduce her, but she immediately pooped out the duck-flavored dog food without any hesitation. It turns out she had been here a long time ago." Ji Ling suddenly felt relieved.

"Well, this kind of person came here today just to see if Ding Fang was not here, thinking that you would give in..."

"It's okay, go and get busy." Ji Ling said with a smile.

She always encounters some weird customers every day, and she silently says to herself: "There are weird customers every year, but there are especially many this year."

As the two were talking, a customer came in angrily and threw his umbrella onto the shelf next to him: "Where are you in charge? Come out."

Ji Ling and the cattery staff were shocked.

Ji Ling patted the employee and walked quickly to the front: "Hello, what's the matter?"

"Who are you? The manager? Why haven't I seen you before?" The customer put his hands on his hips, looking ferocious, and stared at Ji Ling angrily.

"Yes, I'm the manager. I just came back. What can I do for you?" Ji Ling's tone was steady, and his aura was not inferior to the other party at all.

(End of this chapter)