Please make money.

"I, I went to check the inventory! I'm working hard!"

"Okay, check the surveillance." Alia pointed in the direction of the security room. "If you say you were slacking off, then I'll just assume you're just being honest and there might be hope. You said you were doing an inventory, so let's check the surveillance to see if it's there. If it is, you'll be promoted to store manager, and I'll give you a starting annual salary of 500,000. If not, you won't even get any severance pay."

"..."

"Go! Why not? The employees are worried about your mistakes, and you are the one taking advantage of the situation!"

Alia picked up the rotten melon and slapped her on the head: "You dog! Who are you showing your disapproval to?!"

The cashier lady next to her shrank her neck, feeling lucky that she had a good temper and didn't quarrel with the customer...

In fact, most workers are conscious or aware of their work. They cannot be said to love their jobs just because they get paid to work, but at least they are dedicated to their work.

However, too many practical factors prevent employees from getting the full compensation they deserve for their dedication, so dedication has become a joke of working harder but getting less.

Fundamentally, it's nothing more than a problem of mismatch between effort and reward. With a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan, I'm the boss's dad!

Alia didn't want to have so many more fathers, so she could only try to appease everyone.

The supermarket was closing, people were walking towards the exit, and employees gathered together to help count the last batch of cash registers.

Alia folded her arms and watched everyone's work quietly for half an hour.

Mr. Sun accompanied her with his hands behind his back: "The supermarket of Ai Group is considered to have relatively good service in Tianhai City. What do you think, Miss?"

“There is still a lot of room for improvement, not only for customers, but also for employees…Uncle Sun, I went to Benzi some time ago and saw a supermarket with very, very good service, even humble, but you know that feeling is actually not very good from my perspective as a customer?”

Mr. Sun raised an eyebrow and asked in confusion, "Good service—is it not good?"

"Good, but not entirely. I come here to buy things, not to play God. As a customer, service is part of it, but more importantly, it's for shopping, which means the goods are good and cheap. It's not advisable to put the cart before the horse, and the employees will be too tired if they do that."

The service at Haidilao is so good that it makes you feel embarrassed to go there again because you dig your toes on the floor. Too much is as bad as too little.

Alia originally opened a supermarket with the intention of providing some welfare benefits to her employees.

After all, the Ai Group has more than 30,000 employees at its headquarters alone, and it would be difficult to satisfy everyone if gifts were distributed.

It would be better to give them shopping cards with a certain amount of money, and then set up a large supermarket so that they can buy whatever they want and take whatever they like.

But when I really got to the supermarket and saw the traditional - or rather unpleasant - retail industry, I wanted to try it again.

To put it bluntly, even when she had no money, she was never so stingy as to eat the meat while others had just the soup.

Now that we have money, even if we divide the supermarket into shares based on the number of people and distribute them to the employees, what's the big deal?

After all the customers left and the supermarket closed its doors, Alia jumped onto a cash register and looked at the employees who had gathered around her.

"My name is Alia, I'm the new chairman of the Ai Group. I've been working here as a clerk for a while. As the saying goes, a new official starts with three fires. I won't say too much nonsense. I just want to ask everyone - I'll give you a raise! Everyone's monthly salary will be raised. Can you study and train a little? Let's do a good job of running the supermarket again?"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment and there was complete silence for a moment.

That is to say, is it possible that the supermarket is not mine but yours, and you have the final say on what to do in training?

Alia clapped her hands, An Lele handed over a roster, and then opened two large boxes.

In this half hour, in addition to looking at the details, most of the time, Alia continued her usual evil deeds - withdrawing cash.

Ai Group has more than 30 supermarkets with a total of more than 7,000 employees, but only more than 200 people are on duty in each supermarket.

Ailia brought over two boxes, totaling two million yuan. Mr. Sun didn't know how she wanted to distribute it.

"Those whose names I called, please come up to collect your travel allowance and full attendance compensation for the training. In the next half month, you will need to study some service industry regulations and come up with a charter. If you have any questions, you can ask them now."

No one mentioned it. Everyone was looking at the money. This is a pie, right? It was drawn for us to see, right?

"I don't want to see you all so dull. I know you don't have any passion for this job. You get paid to do things, and you exchange your time and labor for a meager salary. I'm here to change this problem. If you can't come up with three questions, I'll leave now!"

Now everyone reacted and exchanged glances. An older lady who seemed to be quite senior among the employees raised her hand.

"Um, Boss, where should I go for training? I have kids to take care of at home!"

"Right here, for the next half month, the supermarket will not accept outside customers. Only employees from the group headquarters will come to shop every day. They are customers, but also testers who cooperate with the test. We are going to conduct a big test!"

The eldest sister nodded and said, "Okay, it seems that the new boss likes to make trouble, but it's okay as long as you don't go far away, because the children still need to be picked up from school every day."

"Boss, boss!" A young man raised his hand and asked, "If we're giving out bonuses, will part-time employees get some too?"

“Are you a part-time worker?”

"Yes, I'm a part-time worker, working to earn money for my studies, and I get commissions from selling milk."

"It will just be a little less. I hope you can understand that this time the bonus will be calculated mainly based on length of service, and we will give priority to old employees."

"Oh, okay, that's fine, hehe..."

"Boss!" A cleaning lady raised her hand weakly: "Do we have to attend the training too?"

"Yes, not only that, but also the cleaning department, I make a promise here that I will raise your salary, at least double what it is now."

The cleaning ladies' salaries are very low. In a first-tier metropolis like Tianhai City, even with the welfare benefits provided by the Ai Group, their salaries are only over a thousand yuan. This was the result after Alia's mother intervened. Unfortunately, after her disappearance, the pace of annual salary increases slowed down.

Mr. Sun rubbed his face in the back. In fact, the salary he gave was already relatively generous among his peers, otherwise he wouldn't have said that the operational pressure was so great.

But as for supermarkets, they have been squeezed by the online market and are finding it hard to breathe, and have been on a downward trend in recent years.

How can you do business well just by raising salaries?

Forget it, as long as the young lady is happy. Others spend hundreds of millions or even billions to buy luxury houses and yachts, but the young lady spends the same amount of money to buy a supermarket to play house.

As long as it can help her gain some experience, neither Prime Minister Lei, the chief steward, nor the eighteen shareholders would mind the financial cost.

After all, being a young lady is hard, without parents to protect her, and having to try to run the family business and shoulder responsibilities at such a young age, alas...

"No problem? Then come and get your money! Those whose names I'll call out, take the money first, and then we'll talk about other things!"

For the bank, the Ai Group is a big client with every advantage - except Alia herself.

With Mr. Lei's financial insurance department, Ai Group's bank cash flow is really exaggerated and its cash reserves are also very abundant.

In addition to the large amount of real estate accumulated by Ai Rulong at the time, even if the Ai Group collapsed soon, the real estate under his hands would be super high-quality collateral.

Who doesn’t like such a customer?

The last time Ailia went to apply for a loan, the bank didn't even blink an eye at the 1 billion yuan loan for that building. Just for that land and that industrial park, they were able to lend her 8 billion yuan.

But could you (TM) not withdraw cash every day?

A bank employee next to them stared with dead eyes as a background. Normally, if it was a withdrawal of two million, the bank teller wouldn't even bat an eyelid.

But the problem is that Alia has a criminal record. God knows if she will take the two million and then ask the bank to transfer another two hundred million.

Forget it, let's just have someone take a look, so that we don't have to do anything and the bank will have to use half a truck of money detectors...

The bank employee was twiddling his fingers in the corner, watching Alia hand out money, and then reacted vaguely.

Holy shit! Is she really rich?!

Not to mention him, even the supermarket employees were confused - today is not a special day, could it be the boss's birthday?

"Here, take it, and wish you a happy Year of the Rabbit."

"This is yours, thank you for your hard work and long hours, happy new year."

"Also, part-time work is a good way to exercise. You can earn your own money and spend it on your own. But you need to pay attention to the safety of part-time work. Also, you need to be careful when choosing an agent. Some black agents are shit. If you encounter such problems in the future, you can come back to us. The supermarket may be able to help you."

The part-time milkman was a little touched by the 600 yuan bonus and even had the urge to marry the woman.

Where have young people seen such a boss? Conscience! Too conscientious! Warm and considerate!

I just can't quite remember the date. How come it's New Year's Day? It's just the beginning of autumn...

But it doesn’t matter. Didn’t you see that everyone is cooperating? As long as there is money to be made, and the boss says the sun is square, everyone can agree to it.

Alia spent more than half an hour distributing money and got to know everyone. There were about seventy people who were on leave and were not there today, so a batch of money was left for distribution tomorrow.

After the money was distributed, Alia's words became effective. Everyone held the bonus in their hands, but their eyes were all fixed in Alia's direction.

"Okay, that's all for today - those in management positions can stay, and the rest of the employees can go home. Today is a holiday!"

……ah?

No, why don't you give us some inspirational words or something? Otherwise, we will be burned by the money!

Everyone was ready for Alia to talk about the first section of three small points on a big point, and then prepare for a two-hour protracted battle.

For the sake of real money, everyone had even thought about how to act out the tears of emotion in their eyes when they applauded.

But you are - lowering the price?

"Lower the price! Go back and take care of things, get enough rest, and everyone including those on leave will be on duty tomorrow. The first day may be a bit hard."

Alia jumped off the cashier counter, and Mr. Sun quickly supported her: "Ouch, ouch, it's so dangerous to jump down like this, it's so high..."

It can be seen that even though Eighteen Shareholders had witnessed Alia's natural powers several times, he still regarded her as that weak little white flower.

"It's okay, Uncle Sun, can we arrange to meet with our purchasing supplier?"

"That's too many. Do you want to see them all?"

"I'll try my best." Alia thought for a moment and said, "But not now. It'll take some time... Well, let's finish the training first."

"Oh, okay, I'll contact them and ask first." Mr. Sun took note of this.

The Ai Group has the capital to negotiate with suppliers, not to mention that the Ai Group has its own property department that provides a large supply of goods.

Just in terms of the scale of the supermarket chain, which covers more than 30 stores including Tianhai and several neighboring provinces and cities, is enough for suppliers to take it seriously.

Ailia dusted off her hands, but unexpectedly this action stopped all the employees who were about to leave, and everyone looked over.

Well, it was a conditioned reflex for everyone - Arya waved her hand to indicate that everything was fine, so everyone left with peace of mind.

Mr. Sun touched his chin and wanted to say that Ailia was a little genius. It took her such a short time to establish her voice so that everyone was willing to listen to her. Some senior executives might not be able to do this even after ten days or half a month.

Of course, considering that it was 'bought' for two million, it seems reasonable.

Ailia was walking in the empty supermarket, chatting with Mr. Sun about some supermarket matters, and occasionally asking the supermarket managers behind her.

After gaining a basic understanding of the supermarket's structure, Alia looked up at the five-story supermarket and frowned.

"What is the current structure of the fourth and fifth floors?"

“The fourth floor is the food court, and the fifth floor is the cinema.”

"There are more than 200 employees in total. Can you take care of them all?"

"Many of them are rented out to other businesses, and we are only responsible for a few businesses that we operate ourselves."

"Is that so... collecting rent?"

"Well, to collect rent, of course. What else?"

"What if I want a share of their sales?"

Mr. Sun's eyes widened: "Profit sharing - franchise?"

"Forget it, let's talk about it later, take your time."

Alia didn't say much about this topic, but turned to the supermarket manager, who was a tall and thin middle-aged woman.

"Manager, let me ask you something. What is the annual turnover of the entire supermarket?"

"If we add the business we operate and the rent, it's about 2 billion a year. Last year it was 1.986 billion."

"I see... What is the percentage of employees' wages?"

"This..." The store manager thought for a moment: "I haven't really calculated this, but if all operating costs are deducted, the net profit is probably more than 100 million."

No wonder Mr. Sun said this is a mess. The turnover is 2 billion, but the net profit is only one twentieth.

Alia did her homework before coming here. Currently, the supermarket with the best profit can even achieve one-fifth of the net profit.

Others make 400 million out of 2 billion, and you make 100 million out of 2 billion. Others have money to expand and grow, but you only have money to relax and retire. How can you fight?

Alia leaned close to Mr. Sun's ear and said something that made Mr. Sun's face change immediately.

With just one sentence, the man changed his expression to eighteen different ones. She was a female lecturer who was very good at shocking others.

"But - wouldn't that be too... too risky?"

"can you?"

"…The pure profit itself is not enough. If we divide it like this, it will be too much!"

"Then we need to provide good services, attract customers, make the pie bigger, increase revenue and reduce expenditure. Reducing expenditure is important, but increasing revenue is more important."

Ailia walked with her hands behind her back to look at the fresh produce, while Mr. Sun stood there sighing.

The store manager looked left and right, and finally felt that Mr. Sun, as the old boss, was more emotional, so he leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Sun, what's wrong?"