Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 75 Xizi Hanyan Tailor Shop

There is so much to do right now.

He has to personally design and produce membership cards, select member POS machines, and implement the recharge, deduction and points return functions in the points system.

The customization of the network administrator's maid costume was also a top priority. A maid costume couldn't be complete without a bunny ear headpiece, right? This was another difficult problem.

Now the operation of the Internet cafe can be handed over to Zhang Lingyu. Sun Baxin can handle the installation and debugging of the new computers. Du Yusheng, who likes to be outspoken and is not afraid of being beaten, can also handle the media matters with ease.

Now, he just needs to focus on doing these things well, and everything will be fine.

In the afternoon, Cheng Yi took a taxi to Handong Electronics Market to start selecting POS machines.

During this period, POS machines had just become popular a few years ago, and they could not support multiple transactions with one machine. Each POS machine could only be bound to one bank. ICBC had its own POS machine, and CCB had its own POS machine.

This regulation is definitely good news for POS machine manufacturers.

After all, many stores buy POS machines from more than a dozen different banks at a time.

As for the member POS machines, they are generally modified from unsold bank POS machines. Because the required backend programs and databases are too expensive, the market is not large and most of them are prepared for chain supermarkets. Similarly, the price of this type of member POS machine is relatively low, and one only costs a hundred yuan.

After visiting three stores in a row, Cheng Yi walked into a POS machine manufacturer's direct sales store.

"Boss, what would you like to order?" The shop owner was a girl in her early twenties. She looked very ordinary, the kind of person you would look at once and then forget what she looked like.

However, she was very enthusiastic and seemed to have an inexplicable love for the sales industry.

Seeing her, Cheng Yi couldn't help but think of his little friend Jiang Yuxi.

Jiang Yuxi has had an almost fanatical passion for sales since she was a child. Even the house games they played when they were young were games between the convenience store owner and the customers.

Cheng Yi clearly remembered that when he was five years old, because he refused to buy the big bubble gum that Jiang Yuxi made of mud, Jiang Yuxi actually pinched his penis in a cruel way, making him cry all day.

Afterwards, Jiang Yuxi was also beaten with shoe soles by Jiang Aiguo, and cried even more miserably than him.

"I want to order a batch of membership cards and membership POS machines with API interfaces." Cheng Yi said with a smile.

"Order?" The girl's eyes suddenly lit up, and she immediately asked, "How many do you want?"

"Ten samples first. I'll take them back for debugging." Cheng Yi said with a smile, "If the test is OK, I'll need at least a thousand, no upper limit."

"One thousand?" The girl widened her eyes, wondering if she had heard it wrong.

"This is the CX12 model that our factory just produced. The purchase price is 78 yuan."

"This is our best-selling model, the CX08, and the purchase price is 128 yuan."

“This one…”

After being shocked, the girl quickly introduced herself to Cheng Yi.

"How much does it cost to support IC card?" Cheng Yi asked again.

"That's expensive, nine hundred yuan," the girl replied.

"Then let's get ten CX12s first." Cheng Yi said with a smile, "And the matching magnetic stripe membership cards. Take them out and let me see them."

"Okay, please wait a moment." The girl immediately brought out several boxes.

Inside the box, there were a wide variety of membership cards. Although the patterns on each card were different, the styles were basically the same, and they were all tacky.

What flowers bloom in prosperity, what flowers bloom in the full moon, what mandarin ducks play in the water.

"This one's 1000 cents a piece, this one's cents a piece, and this one's cents a piece." The girl explained, "If you buy sheets, you can print the text you specify for free."

Cheng Yi rummaged through the 25-cent area for a while, and finally picked up a gray card.

The card was a gradient gray, without any patterns, and couldn't be more ordinary. "If I want a large quantity, can the price be lower?" Cheng Yi asked, holding the card.

"Are you sure you want this card?" The girl looked at Cheng Yi in surprise.

Because this card is so ugly, it has become the lowest-selling card in their store, and only one customer in the catering industry chose it.

Sadly, this customer's restaurant went bankrupt some time ago due to poor management.

"What? What's wrong with this card?"

The girl smiled bitterly and said, "These are our factory's slow-selling cards. If you really want them, I can give you 20 cents for more than 10,000. This is completely the cost price."

"Is it because the color of the card is too ugly?" Cheng Yi said with a smile while playing with the card in his hand.

"Yes, our designer may have dozed off while designing it." The girl said a little embarrassedly.

Ox.

It is indeed ugly, gray and earthy.

However, the appearance of this card is very suitable for the lowest level black iron card of Momo Internet Cafe.

As a starting card, the Iron Card must be ugly. If it is too cool, who would upgrade the membership level?
Why did rich second-generations like Sicong like to show off their black cards on social media? In addition to their functions and privileges, their domineering appearance was also a very important factor.

"How much is left in stock?" Cheng Yi asked.

"Our printing press can print 100,000 copies at a time," the girl said. "We still have more than 90,000 copies left."

"I want them all." Cheng Yi said.

The girl was delighted to hear this and immediately took out a business card. She said excitedly, "This is our store's business card. It has our landline, QQ, and email address. You can send your logo and requirements to our email. If you have any other requirements, you can also communicate with us in real time on QQ."

"Okay." Cheng Yi took the business card and asked, "How much deposit do I need to pay?"

"Just pay 500 as a deposit. Your ten POS machines are 780 yuan, a total of 1280 yuan."

After paying the bill, Cheng Yi left the store amid the girl's compliments.

Now that we have the membership POS machine and membership card, the next step is to customize the maid outfit.

Around 2001, because many international clothing brands had not yet entered the market, there were many tailor shops that made custom clothes, and they could be found on almost every street.

Some better secondary technical colleges also offer specialized sewing and tailoring majors.

"The best custom clothing store in Jingzhou City seems to be called Xizi Hanyan, right?" Cheng Yi still vaguely remembered that the year he graduated was when Xizi Hanyan was the most popular in Jingzhou City. The third child in their dormitory even had a custom-made suit from Xizi Hanyan, spending nearly a thousand yuan.

"Let's go to Xizi Hanyan first."

Following his memory, Cheng Yi came to the street where Xizi Hanyan was.

This is the old street in Jingzhou City. On both sides are old and quiet alleys and courtyards. Cheng Yi walked around the street twice and did not see the sign of Xizi Hanyan.

"Has their store not moved here yet?" Cheng Yi wondered, and when he turned around, a small wooden sign came into view.

The small wooden sign was only one foot long and one foot wide, with the words "Xizi Hanyan Tailor Shop" written on it in blue paint.

It was a very small shop. The door was an old wooden door with gridded glass from the 1980s and 1990s, only about one meter wide.

"Just a four-year age difference, is it so miserable?" With a hint of doubt, Cheng Yi walked up the concrete steps.

The wooden door was locked, and a woman's voice could be vaguely heard from inside: "Three minutes is your problem. Why should I give you a discount?"

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