novelkee Chapter 545 Shop Layout
Chapter 545 Shop Layout
After Han Qi brought the drawings, the family sat at the wooden table in the yard and began to study them.
Xu Han was the first to suggest, "I think we can clear out everything in the shop. The first room on the left can be used to display canned fruit and fruit wine. Then we can put them in rows and layers of shelves. This will save space and look beautiful."
The Taoist priest agreed, "This is a good idea, but the shelf can't be too high, and the space in the middle should be larger, otherwise it will be full of fragile things and fall down at the slightest touch, and then we will suffer a great loss."
Lu Chuan interrupted and said, "The Taoist's suggestion is very important. We must pay attention to it and make the frame stronger. It can't fall down."
"Then let's decide on this one." Xu Han continued, "Let's use the second room as the dry goods area. Dry goods are more expensive, and fewer people buy them. This way, there will be less traffic in the canned goods area, and it will be less likely for things to be broken."
"Okay, it would be best if we add a partition between the two of them, so that we can separate them as well."
Grandpa Zhao then raised a very important question: "Would it be a bad idea to sell both canned food and fruit wine in this shop? After all, both of these items are quite expensive.
Besides, the buyers are different, so will there be some unnecessary troubles? "
Xu Han explained, "We have thought about this issue before, but this year's canned food totals only 480 cans, of which 360 are canned pears, are canned apples, and the rest are canned hawthorns.
There isn't a lot of fruit wine either. If it's really popular, the stock will be sold out in a few days.
If we open a shop alone, it's not worth it. It will close soon. If we put it in a mountain goods shop, it can attract some traffic to our department store."
The Taoist priest slapped his thigh and said, "Now that the fruit wine is sold out, let's sell sweet potato wine! Sweet potato wine is strong and delicious, and people who love to drink will definitely like it. And the price of sweet potato wine is not cheap, so we can sell them together."
Xu Han realized, "Oh, right, how could I forget about sweet potato wine! Canned fruit and fruit wine can't be sold often, but sweet potato wine can. It just so happens that I made a lot of sweet potato wine some time ago, and I can sell it when the shop opens."
Lu Chuan said, "But we didn't plant many sweet potatoes this year. Half of them were already fermented last time. Didn't you say that the rest should be used to make sweet potato vermicelli when they are free recently?"
Xu Han pulled Lu Chuan and said, "It doesn't matter if we don't grow much. We can go to farmers' homes to harvest the sweet potatoes. When the time comes, we can make sweet potato wine in houses or vacant shops in the county town, and we don't have to go through the trouble of transporting them back to the mountains."
Grandpa Zhao also smiled and nodded, saying, "That's a good idea. There are many shops in your county town. It's impossible to rent them all out in a short time anyway, so you might as well use them to make wine.
Besides, every household grows sweet potatoes, so they will definitely be happy to exchange them for money.”
The others nodded when they heard this, and Xu Han made the decision, "That's settled, let's open another shop."
"Okay, let's do it. But what about the mountain goods store?"
Xu Han said, "This is easy. The wine shop will set up two rows of shelves as we just said, and put small jars of wine on the shelves. Then put a row of wine jars against the wall, which are specially used for loose wine, the kind that can be bought and filled at any time.
As for the mountain goods shop, it is the first room on the left where some home-cooked pickles are placed. These pickles are placed in small jars on a row of cabinets, with small pickle clips placed next to them, and customers can pick up as many as they want.
The second room is for dry goods, just use the grid I told you about before (the grids for selling rice in supermarkets, which are slightly deeper on the top to store dry goods so that they are not easy to spill, and the bottom can be used to store inventory).
The third and fourth rooms are connected together, and the front half is used to store fresh vegetables and fruits. This can be adjusted at any time according to the season.
The vegetable racks I mentioned before are the ones you use (refer to the vegetable racks in supermarkets).
A row of cabinets is reserved in the back half, which is close to the door leading to the backyard of the store. Meat can be sold here, and live chickens, ducks, etc. can also be placed in the backyard, so that the house will not smell bad.
As for the cashier, we will put it at the two entrances on the right, one on each side for convenient weighing and payment (it can be understood as an ancient fresh food supermarket)"
After listening to Xu Han's long speech, everyone thought that this arrangement was indeed very good and expressed no objection.
Xu Han said, "Since everyone has no objection, then let's do it this way. Let's open the mountain goods store first. After the mountain goods store is open, the wine shop will be almost ready, and we can open it together then."
The Taoist priest nodded and said, "Well, today is only the sixth day of November, there is still a long time before the Chinese New Year."
Lu Chuan also said, "Tomorrow I will take them to build the cabinets used in the mountain goods store. After the cabinets are built, we will go to the county town and make arrangements step by step."
Xu Han smiled so hard that her teeth were visible. "Thank you for your hard work. Hurry up and finish it as soon as possible."
The Taoist priest said, "Hahahaha, let me tell you, you have finally found a treasure. Among the new people we bought is a man named Li Er. Last time when we chatted, I learned that he happens to be able to do some simple carpentry work. With his help, I think you can do a lot faster."
Xu Han raised her eyebrows after hearing this. "If this is true, how come I didn't know about it and I haven't heard him mention it either."
"I also found out about it by chance. He said he couldn't make anything complicated. He could only make some tables and chairs, so I didn't dare to tell him."
Lu Chuan said, "It's already pretty good to be able to make tables and chairs. Back then, I could only make these simple ones. It was only after I made more and studied more that I was able to make them slowly."
Xu Han immediately flattered him, "Master is really amazing, he can do everything. Not only can he do masonry work, he can also do some bamboo weaving, and he can even do a little bit of stonemasonry work. What's more amazing is that he can do carpentry work, his skills are already very good."
Lu Chuan was confused by Xu Han's call of "Master". In the past, Xu Han always called him by his full name, or else she didn't call him at all. She almost never called him like that, so it was quite strange.
Grandpa Zhao smiled and said, "You're right, I didn't think so before, but now that Xiaohan said so, I have to say that our Xiaochuan is really all-round and knows a little bit about everything."
Lu Chuan's ears turned red from being praised so much by everyone. In fact, when they first met, he was not that capable and only knew the basics of everything. If it weren't for the disaster and war, he would have lived alone in the mountains for seven years and had to do everything himself if he needed anything.