Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 557: Interrupting a Speech on Stage

The fresh food supply chain in Hefei is very well-developed.

This is thanks to a large Red Mansion supermarket system in Hefei, which mainly serves as a supply system for large clients.

Benefiting from this system, many supermarkets starting out in Hefei can save a lot on market development expenses and labor costs.

"Mr. Chen, our fresh food strategy is to open stores densely, closer to consumers, and serve clients through comprehensive cost control."

Wang Wei knows his time to speak in front of Chen Yiyang is limited.

After all, many people want to chat with Chen Yiyang today.

So, he quickly took the opportunity to say, "We are taking an entirely offline approach. Our team believes that the online-offline integration promoted by major companies is not suitable for fresh food.

Because fresh food emphasizes timeliness, the model of ordering online and delivering offline is inefficient, costly, and may lead to freshness issues."

Wang Wei succinctly articulated his team’s philosophy.

Chen Yiyang quickly processed it in his mind, feeling that there wasn’t much wrong with what Wang Wei said.

However, this is not the occasion to think about it thoroughly.

Chen Yiyang could only tell him, "Let’s exchange contact information and talk slowly later."

"Okay, Mr. Chen." Wang Wei agreed, pleasantly surprised.

Although Chen Yiyang is planning to acquire Yonghui, getting to know other fresh food chains’ models is beneficial.

By evening, the event officially began.

Executives from various chain supermarkets took turns introducing their supermarkets.

Soon, an executive from Yonghui went up as well.

"I must thank Mr. Yu," they said.

Chen Yiyang, Zhang Xuansong, and Yu Laidong were sitting together.

Zhang Xuansong said to Chen Yiyang, "Thanks to Shoudonglai’s assistance in renovating, our Yonghui supermarkets have had excellent revenue recently."

"It seems Shoudonglai’s model is really effective."

After speaking, Chen Yiyang glanced at Yu Laidong.

He noticed that Yu Laidong had no smile on his face but instead looked very gloomy, seemingly deep in thought.

Unable to pinpoint the situation, Chen Yiyang could only speculate if perhaps Mr. Yu had eaten something bad and felt uncomfortable.

But Yonghui’s executive started speaking on stage, forcing Chen Yiyang to focus on him.

"After Shoudonglai’s assistance in renovation, our Yonghui store in Zhengzhou not only turned from loss to profit, but also generates more than two million in profit every month."

The Yonghui executive became increasingly gleeful in his speech.

Meanwhile, Yu Laidong’s face was becoming even gloomier.

Just as Chen Yiyang was pondering whether to call a doctor, Yu Laidong abruptly stood up, resolutely walked to the stage, interrupted the Yonghui executive, and said, "Let me add a few words."

Due to Yu Laidong’s high status, although unsure of his intentions, the interrupted Yonghui executive could only hand the microphone to him.

Thus, Yu Laidong stood on stage and began, "This is the first time I’ve learned that Yonghui’s store, after our renovation, can achieve monthly profits of over two million.

When I heard two million, I was very surprised. Why not raise salaries with those two million? This is a common mistake made by many companies."

Yu Laidong continued with some key points.

The core principle is that these originally loss-making adjusted stores can indeed make money, but they should earn consistently and healthily, and earning a million per store is already a lot.

The remaining money should be distributed to employees, allowing them to see the benefit and work more diligently.

It shouldn’t be like now, where the store profits and employees receive the same income as before.

Otherwise, what’s the point of adjustment? Employee enthusiasm will gradually diminish, and the store will soon regress to its previous state.

After speaking, Yu Laidong stepped down from the stage.

By then, the entire venue had fallen silent.

Chen Yiyang turned to look at Zhang Xuansong, noticing no change in his expression.

After the host went on stage to smoothly proceed, the event continued.

However, everyone’s thoughts were no longer focused on the event.

After the event ended, Chen Yiyang first chatted with Zhang Xuansong.

Zhang Xuansong showed great magnanimity, indicating Yonghui accepts criticism and will improve in the future.

But judging by Zhang Xuansong’s demeanor, Chen Yiyang felt he didn’t care about Yu Laidong’s words, not because he agreed with them, but for other reasons.

Hence, after saying goodbye to Zhang Xuansong, Chen Yiyang went straight to find Yu Laidong.

"Why the big show of anger today?" Chen Yiyang tentatively asked.

Yu Laidong interrupted Yonghui’s executive today, which he must have prepared beforehand.

Because someone of his caliber is watched by everyone in their every move.

So most of his actions carry underlying meanings.

Today, the simplest signal from interrupting Yonghui’s executive is not wanting people to think Shoudonglai and Yonghui are tied together.

Only with such face-breaking measures can everyone clearly understand that Shoudonglai and Yonghui are not collaborators.

"Mr. Chen, do you know why, in ancient times, masters were cautious in accepting apprentices?"

"Tell me."

"Because in the old days, everyone cared about their reputation. If the apprentice learned your skills but not your virtues, then went around boasting your name,

the master would be blamed for any mistakes the apprentice made."

After speaking, Yu Laidong left.

But Chen Yiyang understood what he meant.

It’s that during Shoudonglai’s assistance in renovating Yonghui, it was discovered that Yonghui only wanted to learn Shoudonglai’s supply chain and profit margins.

But they wouldn’t learn Shoudonglai’s good treatment of employees.

This way, Yonghui may temporarily make some money under Shoudonglai’s name.

But in return, it would damage Shoudonglai’s reputation.

If Yonghui develops poorly in the future, it’s Shoudonglai’s failure in teaching them well.

If it develops well, it implies the good treatment Shoudonglai provides to employees is meaningless, leading others to follow Shoudonglai’s supply chain but not its spirit in the future.

So, upon discovering this, Yu Laidong meticulously prepared and publicly cut ties with Yonghui on this occasion.

Yonghui is Yonghui, Shoudonglai is Shoudonglai.

They must be separated to avoid Shoudonglai’s potential future crisis.

After sending off Yu Laidong, Chen Yiyang went to find Zhang Xuansong again.

"Mr. Chen, how’s your recent progress in equity acquisition?" Zhang Xuansong inquired.

"It’s going okay." Inside, Chen Yiyang was already hesitating whether to continue acquiring Yonghui.

"Regarding what we discussed before, about the five seats on the board, and three seats being given to you, can we make a slight change?"

"What change?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Add one board seat, reserving one seat for our current CEO of Yonghui."