Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

Xu Niannian will be a junior this year and is an undergraduate student of design at Minhang University in Shanghai.

She is also Xu Xing's cousin.

On the afternoon of June 8th, she had just finished her final exams and came home from school. She slept in on the morning of the 9th and didn't wake up until around ten o'clock.

Lifting the quilt to reveal his long, slender legs, Xu Niannian went into the bathroom to wash up with bare feet and slippers. He took a cooked sweet potato from the table, gnawed it and sat down in front of the computer desk in the study room.

Min University's design studies have been trying to combine traditional paper design with computer software for design, and Xu Niannian, who majored in visual communication, became the guinea pigs.

This also made Xu Niannian very proficient in using computers, and he easily logged into various websites and started browsing.

In the middle of the process, she clicked on Taobao to see if there were any new styles and find inspiration for her summer design homework. As a result, she was flipping through and saw a store called "Wanhui Clothing".

"Why is it the same name as my aunt's store?" Xu Niannian found it interesting. He clicked in and took a look and found that there were three types of clothes sold inside.

I saw that the package marked above was ten yuan off, and Xu Niannian really wanted to buy new clothes since she was on summer vacation, and she had never bought anything online before. It felt fresh, and the name of this store was quite fateful.

So she didn't think much and placed the order directly.

…

Last night, Xu Xing and Yan Chijuan kept fighting fiercely until nine o'clock in the evening, when Xu Xing was called home by his mother.

After all, the library closes at nine o'clock, and if you stay any longer, it's easy for my mother to find out.

However, after returning home, Xu Xing borrowed his mother's pineapple phone and logged on to QQ to chat with Li Zhibin and Yan Chijuan.

By the way, I explored the differences between the pineapple phone in this world after rebirth and the Apple phone in the previous life.

Then he discovered another treasure, so he didn't sleep much for the rest of the night. He was thinking about it until the morning with two dark circles under his eyes.

When it was almost ten o'clock, I sneaked into my mother's clothing store, took the pineapple phone and continued to think about it.

Click on the App Store inside and enter the game category. Looking at the unfamiliar games above, Xu Xing felt his heart beating fiercely.

Fortunately, he has a strong psychological quality and quickly adjusted. He temporarily shelved his thoughts about mobile games and planned to wait for his mother's online store to get on the right track before making any plans.

"Has your son passed the college entrance examination? How did he do?"

"Oh, it's okay. Min Da doesn't want to do it anymore, but Cai Da probably can give it a try."

"Oh, that's awesome, top student! What about you, Wanhui? I remember your son is also taking the college entrance examination this year?"

"That's it." Sun Wanhui chatted with several proprietresses on the street in front of the store, "If you can read a book, it will be a hit."

"It's not a bad one." Zhang Li from the children's clothing store opposite said with a smile, "If I hadn't been in strict control of my family, it would have been hard to even get one. Your Xu Xing usually loves to play so much, but he can pass the exam with such a talent.

It’s there.”

"It's okay, it's okay." Sun Wanhui kept smiling.

The proprietress of the shoe store next to her saw that the atmosphere was not right, so she quickly changed the subject and said: "Recently, business has become increasingly difficult. I heard that there is another commercial city opening next to it. The commercial street on the other side has sucked away a lot of popularity.

, it’s getting more and more difficult now.”

"It's not bad." Zhang Li twirled her fingers in her hair and smiled, "There are very few people making children's clothing in the neighborhood. Apart from ours, there is only one other company that makes them, and some make 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month."

"Children are so precious these days, I'm wondering if I should buy some children's shoes." The shoe store proprietress said with a bit of envy.

"Where's Wanhui? Are women's clothes selling well these days?" Zhang Li looked at Sun Wanhui.

Back then, Zhang Li was selling women's clothing on this street, but because she couldn't compete with Sun Wanhui, she finally chose to stay away from the competition and found another way to choose children's clothing.

As a result, she really got better and better.

On the contrary, Sun Wanhui's women's clothing store has seen its revenue decline in the past year or two, and its business has been squeezed out by various shops that have developed in the surrounding areas.

"It's okay." Sun Wanhui is not the kind of woman who likes to make excuses with words, so she said in a leisurely manner, "I don't have as much as you, so I can only pay the school fees for my children and eat at home."

Several women were chatting, and when a customer came to the store, they temporarily dispersed, and Sun Wanhui walked into the store.

"Mom, how was yesterday's order?" Xu Xing put down his phone and saw her coming in, so he asked curiously.

"That's it." Sun Wanhui fiddled with the clothes on the rows of hangers, feeling a little bad, "I sold a small knitted sweater yesterday afternoon and have already sent it out."

"What about tonight?"

"The store was busy at night, so I didn't look at it." Sun Wanhui said, "I would have forgotten it if you didn't tell me, and I haven't looked at it this morning."

"You didn't tell me earlier." Xu Xing was speechless. He quickly turned on his computer and went to the backstage of Taobao store.

After seeing the number of orders completed in the background, Xu Xing raised his eyebrows, smiled, and asked his mother with a half-smile: "Mom, how many clothes did you sell in the store yesterday?"

"About ten pieces, business is pretty good at night."

In fact, Sun Wanhui can definitely feel that physical stores are in decline, especially small stores like hers, which cannot compare with high-end women's clothing stores in large shopping malls.

Without brand premium, the gross profit margin is basically between 60% and 80%. The monthly gross profit is about 15,000 to 20,000 yuan. After deducting the rent and water and electricity, you only get more than 10,000 yuan.

You know, before 2010, the most prosperous period for a small physical store like hers was when she could earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month during the peak season.

But even so, it was quite good. Sun Wanhui was also very content and kept her small shop running peacefully. At this age, she no longer had much ambition.

"Then come and take a look." Xu Xing didn't know that his mother was having so much inner drama, so he waved to her and pointed to the computer screen in front of him.

"What's so interesting?" Sun Wanhui said as she walked over, "Sold again? Three or four?"

"You can see for yourself." Xu Xing pursed his lips towards the computer.

Sun Wanhui walked over and leaned over, looked at the order list, and was stunned for a moment.

"Ten orders?!" Sun Wanhui said in surprise. Looking carefully, she found that not all of them were single items, but many of them were two-piece set meals, and even a three-piece large set meal had two.

"More than that." Xu Xing chuckled, holding the mouse and sliding down, and four or five more orders appeared in Sun Wanhui's eyes.

Sun Wanhui counted carefully and found that from last night to now at noon, the number of orders had actually increased by fifteen!

If you break down the package inside, it would be more than twenty pieces of clothing!

Sun Wanhui pulled up a stool and sat down, taking a breath for a moment, then suddenly opened the drawer, took out a calculator, and calculated the orders one by one.

Finally, the number that appeared on the calculator was 1885.

Not turnover, but gross profit!

However, after deducting the postage fee for mailing it out, there is still about more than 1,700.

You should know that during this period, Taobao itself does not have any handling fees. Only when using Taobao's payment channel for deposits and withdrawals, merchants need to pay a certain handling fee.

But if this fee is placed on a single merchant, it can only be regarded as a small profit.

This is equivalent to saying that Xu Xing just opened the Taobao online store yesterday and put three pieces of clothes on it. In one day, including the few orders yesterday morning and afternoon, the net profit was almost two thousand yuan.

!

This is two thousand yuan a day!

If we can maintain this order volume every day, wouldn't it cost 60,000 yuan a month?

Sixty thousand yuan!

Zhang Li's children's clothing store only costs 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

And Sun Wanhui knew that the 20,000 to 30,000 that Zhang Li mentioned was probably gross profit, so it was too much.

In a normal average month, her children's clothing store would probably earn a few thousand more than she did, and occasionally a net profit of 20,000 would be considered good.

But right now, what is in front of Sun Wanhui is a big business with a monthly income of 60,000 yuan!

Isn't this much better than her physical store business?