Please make money.

"We had to send it to the supermarket. The emergency stock was too large, so we had to ship it to the warehouse area at the headquarters first. Now we have to ship it back again."

The headquarters campus of the Ai Group covers a very large area, with three super-A-grade office buildings and an entire garden area, with warehouses behind them.

Ai Rulin brought back more than 300 pieces of construction machinery, and they were able to dock directly. It is said that when the warehouse was first built, it was built according to the specifications of the hangar.

But even so, a large number of warehouses were filled with goods from the Aili supermarket, and it took a whole day just to organize people to transport them.

The goods could be transported here quickly in the first place because vehicles were able to pass normally and there was sufficient transport capacity.

The only vehicles that can get out of the flood now are heavy mining trucks whose tires are taller than people. Fortunately, there were many speedboats that could be used instead of trucks.

Although the carrying capacity of a ship of more than one ton is a bit small, it has the advantage of having more ships and can carry a few passers-by on the road for transfer...

"Supermarket? Is Aili coming?"

"Ah."

"Whose idea was this? I thought they were all donated. Could it be that some senior executives are hiding this from our young lady?"

Sonica muttered to herself, and then she saw the figure turning around, revealing the young lady's face that could either be angry or happy.

"Forehead--"

"It's you." Alia saw her and looked her up and down: "Did you sleep well last night?"

"Very good..."

"Well, that's good. I was worried that you might have some psychological trauma. Being trapped in a tunnel with accumulated water could easily induce psychological illnesses such as claustrophobia."

Alia counted the documents, piled up the boxes of water she had on hand, and left with them in her arms.

"We donated a batch, which is enough for emergency use, but there are many citizens who may not need the donated supplies. As long as the normal supply flow can be guaranteed, they can buy them themselves. After all, the donated items may not all be the urgent needs of the family."

Most of the donated materials are food, medicine, and emergency life-saving supplies.

Alia gave most of the stock of these things to the officials of Tianhai City, asking them to allocate and distribute them. She donated more than a hundred speedboats alone.

But other things, such as baby milk powder and diapers, men's cigarettes, women's daily necessities and the like, still have to be transferred through shopping channels such as supermarkets. All Alia can do is to ensure that the supermarkets have sufficient supply, and do not raise prices or profit from the national crisis.

She was originally worried about not having enough goods, but after Jiang Tianyi's Tianrun Department Store chain warehouse was merged, the situation improved immediately.

Aili Supermarket and the other party formed a temporary joint procurement agreement, first providing each other with their current inventory, and then transferring goods from seven or eight neighboring provinces.

Tianrun Department Store chain itself is the third largest supermarket in Tianhai City. Unlike Alia’s Aililai comprehensive supermarket, it is a specialized hypermarket.

The suppliers have a strong say in the purchase volume of materials, and even the manufacturers have to negotiate with them.

If anyone dares to raise prices at this time, Tianrun Department Store chain alone will give the other party a severe beating without Alia getting involved.

So Ailia sighed several times today. Boss Jiang is also a good person. Her father was a bit dirty in the past, but she has changed for the better now.

Sunika followed the crowd, moving the goods, delivering them to the ship, and escorting them - when she finally came to her senses, she was already at the No. 1 Alilai store on the commercial street.

"Let's go and replace the person. Will you charge me?"

"No - but I can learn!"

"Well, come with me." Alia took her to the supermarket on the first floor. Only then did Sonica realize that Alia was very clean and tidy in the supermarket.

"Miss, there's no water here?"

"I have stockpiled a batch of flood-fighting waterproof baffles and several thousand sandbags in advance on the commercial street. There is also a water pump truck outside to drain water. This street is basically fine."

The terrain of the commercial street is originally low-lying. If no preparatory measures are taken, Alia will have to pull the supermarket out of the water. Is that reasonable?

However, this preparatory measure was also due to the terrain of the commercial street. If the two ends were blocked, the middle could be saved. The amount of water backflowing from the underground drainage system was not too large. The pumps and large water suction pump trucks made it easy to control the situation.

Yesterday, many citizens were trapped in the commercial street. The Aili supermarket did not close all night and accommodated everyone on the fourth and fifth floors. They were not rushed and sent back the next morning. The manager said that breakfast was prepared for everyone, but when Alia asked, it turned out to be ordinary small breads and egg tarts. She was very angry and asked the food court on the fourth floor to prepare a batch of hot porridge and hot dishes, and let them go home after eating.

"Go to the cashier counter and learn from him. After 20 minutes, replace the guy at position 3, the one you see?"

"Oh, okay." Sunika was forced to do the job and was assigned to sit next to a cashier.

The auntie moved very quickly. She scanned whatever the customers had bought and put it on the table. However, the subsequent operations were not quite the same as she remembered.

How to collect money... Oops! I almost forgot!

Sunika took out her cell phone, and sure enough, there was no internet on this side of the commercial street!

The young man who was buying things also looked a little embarrassed and anxious. He had packed his things, but his phone was still spinning in circles.

"The total is 168. Don't worry. Do you have cash?"

"Cash... let me see, I..." The young man quickly took out his wallet.

When I opened it, I couldn't say it was empty. It was basically cleaner than my face, with just two lucky coins inside.

“Do you have a membership card?”

"No, no."

"It's okay. There may be a power outage and internet connection these two days. I'll write it down for you and give it to you next time. What's the phone number?"

The young man quickly gave a phone number and the cashier wrote down the amount, stamped it with a small seal, and split the note into two.

I handed the note with half a stamp and the amount to the guy: "OK, please go slowly, be careful of the water on the road, and welcome to come next time."

Sunika stared blankly at the young man being pushed away by the people behind him, and for a moment she couldn't tell what was wrong.

...It seems like something is wrong?

"No! Wait a minute - sister, wait a minute, that person didn't give any money!"

"Yes, but I can't give it to you now. Besides, I left my phone number and the amount."

"Then...what if someone deliberately wrote a fake phone number?"

"The eldest lady said that if someone is greedy or cheats for even this little thing, we should consider it as alms from us to them."

The cashier lady pointed to a piece of paper stuck to the side of the screen, with a sentence written on it.

"There will always be people who are unethical, but we cannot let ethical customers suffer the consequences of having their services cut off."

"The POS machine is not working, and we can't accept online payments. We can only use cash and the local system, but now no one has much cash... Hey, hello, the baby is so cute, two cans of milk powder, right? This supply package is packed directly. Your package contains 50 yuan of fresh products. You can take a look at the picture of the items here. It's probably these things... It's okay, you can take out the ones you don't need, it's okay, just deduct the individual items when you settle the bill."

Sunika followed and learned for twenty minutes. To be honest, she didn't learn any real skills, but she felt like a shop assistant not a shop assistant, but someone moving her own refrigerator.

Do cashiers in supermarkets have such great authority? Can they round down the amount? Don't they just round up the amount by four or five, and at most give two candies a few cents off?

She nervously switched shifts with a young man and told him she was going to the warehouse to move things. He didn't complain and just took off his apron and left.

"I said I should go. I'm not stronger than them? Is it true..."

The guy ran out wearing gloves, looking like a killer who was going to carry out some high-end assassination mission, which surprised Sonica.

"Hello, how much is the total?"

"Ah-ah? Ooooh--wait a minute."

Sunika scanned the code and put the money in her bag, a total of 215 yuan. Then she clenched her fist and watched the receipt print out.

The young lady poked at her phone, poked, poked, and then looked at Sunika blankly.

"How about...I, I'll buy it later?"

"Oh, no need. I'll write you a note for 215...stamp stamp... ok?"

Picking up the seal, Sunika looked at the seal on the note in confusion. What is this thing?

Why does it look like a bone? Is this a special mark?

After tearing the strip apart, the bones seemed to be broken, and when put together, they seemed to be healed again.

"Take this. When the water recedes and you have time, you can come back and pay the additional fee. There is no handling fee."

"Thank you, thank you—"

The young lady thanked him profusely and left. Sunika felt like she had gained positive feedback from playing the game, and suddenly thought that the cashier was pretty nice.

Ailia was on the other side watching the people coming and going in the supermarket, with Mr. Feng and the store manager next to her.

Mr. Feng looked at the crowded crowd and said, "After the flood, people's shopping demand has increased instead of decreased. It seems that everyone is a little scared..."

"Indeed - can transportation be guaranteed?"

"Not really. We are now using speedboats instead of buses, but this is not a normal mode of transportation after all. Almost all roads in the city are flooded, and cars can't move... Many people even waded through the water. I saw their clothes were wet to here."

Mr. Feng gestured to the position of his chest. It was obvious that this level of water accumulation was life-threatening and wading could turn into diving if one was not careful.

"It can't be stopped. The pumps are probably just in place. It will take at least a day to pump out the main road... During this time, please help everyone. Drive slowly on the road. Safety is the first priority. If it really doesn't work, make two more trips in batches."

The community's water, electricity and power grid were cut off. Vegetables, eggs, fish and soy products in small supermarkets around the residential area have been snapped up by citizens. Mineral water is being moved out in whole pieces, and there is nothing left in the frozen food area's freezers for frozen dumplings and glutinous rice balls, not to mention that many shopping malls' warehouses have been flooded. Currently, the only supermarket chains and hypermarkets that are still in operation are doing booming business, and the increase in customer flow is almost visibly evident.

The most intuitive example is the purified water sold in the Aili supermarket. The store manager said that at least 20,000 bottles were sold this morning, no more, no less.

In this situation, it is pure dream to talk to everyone about rational consumption. Everyone is just thinking about stocking up some things first.

"Safety first, safety first, safety first!" Alia said this three times: "We need to find a way to solve the problem of overcrowding. We need to limit the number of people waiting in line, but we also need to reassure the waiting customers and tell them that there are enough supplies and that there will definitely be stock."

The store manager made repeated assurances, and Alia nodded in satisfaction: "When we are done, the water has receded, and business is not so tight, we can find time to hold an opening ceremony or something. I will give you a bonus then, and everyone will get one!"

"Miss, how did you convince Tianrun Department Store Chain to share inventory with us?"

“Did they raise the price?”

"No, it's based on the purchase price."

"Then why are you so entangled in these things? Of course it's because Boss Jiang is a good person... Well, I have to talk to Boss Huo. I heard that Boss Jiang is interested in the Chamber of Commerce. Shouldn't he be given a title of Good Citizen or Outstanding Youth and be invited to join the Chamber of Commerce?"

Mr. Feng thought for a moment and said, "What about you?"

"Me?" Alia touched her chin. "Of course I also support Boss Jiang to join the Chamber of Commerce. I will vote for her when the time comes!"

"...?"

250-It's Miss Jiang!

Alia is in charge, but it’s Jiang Tianyi who is on screen.

What is Jiang Tianyi doing?

Looking at the scenery...

Or you can say you are looking at business. For a businessman, customer flow is the best scenery.

She stood in a corner of the supermarket, watching people coming and going in the Tianyi Plaza supermarket.

Customers walked between the shelves with shopping lists, looking for the products they wanted.

And the salesperson walked around the various departments, occasionally saying "Please queue up your shopping cart."

The cash register was crowded at the front desk, and the line was long and moved slowly forward.

Near the exit, some counters with popular non-staple food were temporarily set up and were almost sold out as soon as they were put on the shelves.

The whole hall was filled with people's voices, it was so lively here!

The only bad thing is that the person in charge of Tianyi Plaza is chattering next to us.

Between the lines, he seemed to be somewhat resentful of Jiang Tianyi's move to merge the warehouses of the Tianrun Department Store chain with those of Alia.

You know, Alia doesn't raise the price - how can she share her inventory with a bug like that? !

What? We don't raise prices here either?

Of course, but I can sell the goods to smaller supermarkets, and then it won’t be my business if they raise the price.

What? My shipping price has increased?

That's because my purchase price has also increased! I am helpless when something like this happens...

The person in charge of Tianyi Plaza wants to have both a role and a stand, the main reason being of course that performance is linked to his bonus.

How much is the base salary without any responsibilities? The bulk of the salary still depends on sales performance - and some small extra income that cannot be mentioned...

Now he had the business performance, but no extra income. He didn't dare to hit Jiang Tianyi openly, and could only keep hinting from the side.

Jiang Tianyi was tired of listening and waved his hand: "Just go and do whatever you need to do. You don't have to accompany me."

"Miss, this——"

"Can't you hear what the young lady said?" Beng Ya Xiong stopped the person in charge who wanted to speak.

"Ah... OK, OK..."

Beng Ya Xiong escorted him away from here, and only turned back when he saw a few of the other side's younger brothers picking up the people.