Chapter 1496 - 1483: Sniping Overseas—Daxia Is the True Origin

Chapter 1496: Chapter 1483: Sniping Overseas—Daxia Is the True Origin

After sending messages to the girls, Luofeng drove to Nanfeng Third Street.

A moment later, Luofeng arrived at the main store of White Wing Supermarket, where Gu Yongjie happened to be.

"How’s White Wing doing recently?" Luofeng asked.

Accompanying Gu Yongjie this time was still that rather attractive waitress.

She’s a female college student doing work-study from a nearby school.

At that moment, she was brewing tea for Luofeng.

She seemed a bit nervous, with a gaze full of admiration for Luofeng.

Luofeng didn’t find anything wrong with Gu Yongjie’s approach. On the contrary, Luofeng also enjoyed looking at beautiful women, and having a pretty woman brew tea was certainly much better than having a man do it.

Unfortunately, Luofeng had high standards.

Such a pretty girl might be quite popular at school, but it was different here with Luofeng.

Gu Yongjie’s intentions were also understood by Luofeng.

If he could create an opportunity for this young lady to develop a relationship with Luofeng, then Gu Yongjie himself would rise in status.

High-status individuals certainly don’t lack beautiful women.

Even if one doesn’t have the circle to meet beautiful women, those eager to curry favor with you would create opportunities.

Because once successful, one gains influence.

Pillow talk is really no ordinary thing.

Throughout history, many significant events have succeeded because of pillow talk.

"Recently, White Wing Supermarket has been booming. Although the Teacher’s Day event reduced profits, the foreseeable future income is gradually consolidating," Gu Yongjie said.

"How about the Light Food department?" Luofeng asked again.

"The trend is developing rapidly. Health topics are getting increasingly popular, even among college students who are really concerned!" Gu Yongjie replied.

"There’s one more thing I need to tell Boss Luo. Our Light Food department plans to withdraw from the delivery platform because their commissions are too high, which has caused the Light Food department to incur negative profits!" Gu Yongjie said.

"Negative profits? Is it that outrageous?" Luofeng was curious.

"I find it outrageous too. Delivery platforms are like vampires; they provide fixed services yet take a commission based on our prices. Some small eateries are not skimping on ingredients; they’re simply hit by high platform commissions, so they try to manage themselves," Gu Yongjie explained, "and those who insist on quality can’t make money, leaving many businesses with no alternatives!"

Luofeng nodded.

Indeed.

If there’s no profit, who would continue long term?

To have business but also make money, the focus must be on costs.

Current delivery services are somewhat like this.

If the delivery cost for a 20-yuan meal is five yuan, then for a 200-yuan meal, it is also five yuan.

This is a very normal operation.

But current platform operations are such that a 200-yuan meal may involve service fees up to twenty or thirty yuan.

Handling a few kilograms more or less is nothing significant for a delivery worker.

Thinking of a few extra yuan also makes sense, but being outrageously expensive defies logic.

To give an example, an oyster in the shop costs six yuan, but on a delivery platform, it becomes eight yuan, and each even incurs a two-yuan packaging fee.

That’s truly outrageous.

Ten oysters cost 100 yuan on delivery.

Yet purchasing directly from the store is only sixty yuan.

Even with ten yuan paid for errands, the total is only seventy yuan.

The errand runner can also buy other items from different places or even from shops not on delivery platforms.

That’s why the errand industry is booming nowadays.

"Given the situation, canceling cooperation with the delivery platforms makes sense, but we still need to deliver food. Do you have any new plans?" Luofeng asked.

"Of course there are plans, and we should thank Student Bai Lu for suggesting we establish our own delivery system for White Wing," Gu Yongjie said.

"Our White Wing customers are quite unique, especially the Light Food ones, who are primarily students, nearby Business Building’s white-collar workers, or young people from the gym!" Gu Yongjie explained, "According to Bai Lu’s suggestion, we can hire delivery personnel through work-study programs. After all, our customer concentration is high, and the delivery environment is simple. Plus, with our own app and public platform, we can completely manage deliveries ourselves!"

"In delivery, we can increase the fees a bit, but not charge based on a proportion of customers’ purchase value; it’s not logical."

Why do most people choose errands these days?

It’s because the fees are fixed.

No need for a platform, buying directly from the store.

Even if buying 1000 yuan worth of items, it still costs 1010 yuan.

If it were a delivery platform, wouldn’t they charge twelve or thirteenth hundred?

That’s more ridiculous than a high-interest loan.

"By the way, do you know about plant-based meat?" Luofeng asked.

"Is plant-based meat the thing that’s been highly popular overseas lately? It’s made by industrial deep processing to give soybeans a meat-like taste?" Gu Yongjie said. "Recently, many overseas chains are promoting this concept. McDonald’s, KFC, and even Pizza Hut are all pushing it."

"Exactly!" Luofeng nodded.

"Are you implying we should introduce plant-based meat in our Light Food department?" Gu Yongjie asked.

Luofeng shook his head, "Do you know why plant-based meat is only popular overseas?"

Gu Yongjie thought for a few seconds and guessed, "Maybe it hasn’t spread to the domestic market yet?"

"No, no. In fact, we Daxia are the ancestors in making plant-based meat!" Luofeng said. "In ancient Daxia, we created many imitation meat vegetarian dishes like vegetarian chicken and vegetarian beef, with texture and appearance as fine as the real thing—not just a chunk of blackened beef patty."

"In Daxia, plant-based meat is not a novel concept, and our traditional methods are superior, especially in the processing techniques. Overseas, plant-based meat still uses additives, coloring, etc., while we have traditional cooking skills and our processing technology surpasses theirs!" Luofeng added.

"So, Boss Luo means we should target plant-based meat?" Gu Yongjie asked.

Luofeng affirmed, "Yes, we can target it using Daxia’s traditional imitation meat vegetarian dishes to outmatch overseas plant-based meats!"

Truth be told.

In Daxia, plant-based meat is just a junior compared to traditional imitation meat vegetarian dishes.

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