Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth -
Chapter 118: Booming Store, For Free!_1
Chapter 118: Chapter 118: Booming Store, For Free!_1
People naturally clamor for free things.
By the second day, Xiao Hu had called to say that quite a few people from their association had already signed up, intending to come and do business, and to lease Wang Ye’s stores.
Moreover, in order to help manufacturers better do business in Russia, the association had specifically held a meeting to introduce the situation here to everyone.
Over the past few years, it has proven to be quite profitable to do business in Russia.
It’s no exaggeration to say that as long as you can transport your goods over and find a place to sell them, you can make money!
Of course, doing business here also carries various uncertain risks.
But when it comes to doing business, if you’re afraid of everything, what business can you do? It would be better to just stay at home.
So, even though many China-based employers are aware of the risks, they still continuously come here for prospecting.
Shoe manufacturers like Hu Jian are no exception, they have been restless for long and with someone now willing to provide a free and fee-free stall, they are scrambling to get started!
It is only natural that Wang Ye’s shops are popular.
According to Xiao Hu, preliminary statistics show that about one hundred factories plan to come and do business.
Ultimately, even if a few less actually fall through, there will still be over a hundred!
This means that one-third of the stalls have already been taken care of, and there are still two hundred stalls that need to attract businesses.
Wang Ye hasn’t pinned all his hopes on Xiao Hu, he also has his own business attraction strategy!
That is to advertise in the "Moscow Chinese Newspaper"...
The target of the advertisement is of course Chinese business owners from the old market!
Although the effect of Big Head Kong’s advertisement for selling stalls isn’t very satisfactory, Wang Ye’s case is different.
After all, buying a stall involves too many things, and most importantly, people are afraid to get trapped after buying a stall...
Renting a stall is different, especially with rent and management fee exemptions!
Who wouldn’t want to give something a shot when it’s free!
More importantly, these business owners also leave a way out for themselves, i.e., opening a shop in the new market and not closing the old market for the time being!
If the new market takes off, that’s great, they can simply return or sell the stalls at the old market.
If the new market can’t take off...
Well, since no money has been thrown in, it’s not a big deal.
.........
April 20th.
Early in the morning, before dawn, the bustling ant market had already sprung to life.
The lights were bright in the old market, with a large crowd gathered.
The working hours here are not 9 to 5, but 5 to 3...
That is to say, as long as it was 5 a.m., all the stalls would already be open for business, and many customers would have already arrived.
The reason for these working hours was quite simple.
Because besides the local merchants in Moscow who come to buy goods here, there are also many who come on night trains from out of town.
Local Moscow merchants who come to buy goods at five or six in the morning are not delayed in their day-to-day business.
And those who come from out of town can sleep on the night train and arrive, then buy their goods and get home on the same day without taking up too much time.
Over time, this has become the norm.
It starts to get busy here from five or six in the morning, and continues until twelve in the afternoon where the number of customers starts to dwindle.
By two or three in the afternoon, most of the stalls have cleaned up and closed for the day...
"Newspapers! Chinese Newspaper! Phone cards!..."
A thin middle-aged man was weaving his way through the crowd, shouting loudly.
This is the kind of person who specifically sells newspapers and phone cards in the market.
The newspaper costs fifteen rubles each, which is cheap, just about five CNY.
Chinese shopkeepers in the market like to read this, it might be their only source of information from the outside world.
After all, at the time, mobile phones could only make calls and couldn’t access the internet.
In the market, it can get quite boring when there are no customers, so reading the newspaper becomes the best pastime.
"Give me a newspaper." As soon as Lao Wu arrived at his stall, he called out.
After digging for some change to buy a newspaper, Lao Wu went into his own stall.
He sells shoes, and his stall is not small, occupying two spaces together.
There are several workers in the stall, two Russian shoe salesmen, along with a full-time translator, and four young men from home who were responsible for sorting and packaging the goods.
Though he looked ordinary, Lao Wu was actually a multi-millionaire!
Everyone was busy working, Lao Wu walked around once, then pulled up a chair to sit down, opened the newspaper and prepared to read for a while.
The first and second pages were advertisements for the New Sun Market, Lao Wu laughed and quickly turned the pages.
He had already visited the New Sun Market, and had also consulted with its management office.
The stall prices weren’t too high, but based on what Lao Wu found out, there weren’t many people who were really interested in doing business there.
Everyone was on a wait-and-see mode.
The two stalls Lao Wu has now are also rented.
In addition to the management fee of five hundred dollars per stall per month, he also has to pay the stall owner a thousand US dollars in rent per stall!
Oh, when he got this stall, he also paid the previous tenant five thousand dollars as a "tea fee".
Don’t think it’s expensive, it’s still hard to find a stall!
Because doing business here can be described as "profiting massive amounts of gold daily"!
Foreigners should be relatively "honest", they come to buy goods and take whatever price you quote, they don’t know how to haggle at all.
Combined with the fact there’s almost no light industry here, so relatively cheap Chinese goods can also be considered good value relative to their price for Russians.
Well, let’s not talk about whether the goods are "beautiful" or not, it is undoubtedly true to say that they’re cheap!
Because of the profitability of the business, the cost of the stall is not considered high, everyone can afford it.
That’s why, over at the New Sun Market, even though the stalls were cheap, not many people were going there.
Save some stall money and lose business?
Who would be that stupid!
......
When Lao Wu turned past the New Sun Market’s advertisement to the third page, he was stunned.
Another advertisement!
This Chinese Newspaper is getting more and more unreasonable, are they losing their face over making some advertisement money!
After cursing a few times, he was about to turn the page when he glanced over the advertisement and stopped.
On this page, a red headline was exceptionally eye-catching!
"Hot Popular Stall! Zero Rent! Free Giveaway!"
Being in business, he had a keen sense for these things, Lao Wu was interested and wanted to see what kind of stall was rent-free.
Looking closely, it turned out to be the New Market next door, which had planned a footwear specialty area, including 1, 2, 3 Streets.
Within these three streets, only shoes could be sold, no other category of goods.
Moreover, for the grand opening, stall rent would be waived for half a year!
Management fees would be waived for two months!
In addition, the advertisement also noted that they’ve reached a cooperation with the domestic Hu Jian Shoe Industry Association, and over a hundred domestic shoe manufacturers and merchants would be joining in!
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