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Chapter 233: Chapter 198 Hello, Chairman (Please Subscribe!)_1
Just like that, Tang Qing and Sun Chao watched as Dou Jiao continually tried on various clothes. Any piece she liked, she would ask the shop assistant beside her to fold up. As the pile of clothes and the total price became increasingly exorbitant, had it not been for Tang Qing’s custom Qi Yan label, they may have thought Dou Jiao was just causing a ruckus. After all, who buys so many clothes from the same store as if buying cabbage.
If this were any other clothing store, even if Tang Qing, this local tycoon, were treating Dou Jiao, she would never pick so much all at once - one or two pieces at the most. After all, once spent, that money is really gone, and she’s not so careless. However, Sheng Tang is different; it’s Tang Qing’s company. Even if money is spent, it can be considered as injecting capital into the company, only that the beneficiaries have increased by two - one being Tang Qing and her.
More than an hour later, Dou Jiao finally finished choosing.
Looking at the various pieces of clothes, Dou Jiao’s eyes shone like a farmer feasting their eyes on a bumper harvest.
Of course, Dou Jiao didn’t just choose the more expensive items; the regular clothing section also had many excellent products.
Cashier.
Sun Chao and Tang Qing handed the huge pile of clothes to the cashier. It should have been the job of the shop assistants, but more customers had come in just now, so Tang Qing let them go serve them. After all, those clothes are not cheap. They can be felt and pulled as one likes, some might even break.
Looking at the dozens of clothes, the cashier girl asked in surprise, "Sir, do you want all these?"
This is not a wholesale market, getting dozens of items at once. Half of these clothes are limited products from the high-end clothing section, and they are not cheap. Unless someone is a very loyal customer or buying gifts, why would anyone buy so much? But how long has the Sheng Tang brand been in existence to have such loyal fans?
"Yes, these are all ours. Please, make up the bill," Tang Qing nodded and smiled.
"Alright, sir, please wait a moment." On getting Tang Qing’s confirmation, the cashier hastened to call an assistant to scan the barcodes and pack. To save space, Tang Qing directly requested to pack as many items as possible into each bag. Although it seemed a bit low, Dou Jiao was not around anyway, so they could just stuff them full for now.
Soon, the total price was calculated.
"Sir, there are 28 items in total, which come to ¥23,200. As part of our grand opening special, all purchases over ¥10,000 are discounted 30 percent. After rounding down, the total comes to ¥16,200. Will you be paying by card or cash?" The cashier asked cautiously, given that this was a considerable sum in this era.
"Card."
Tang Qing then handed over a bank card.
There are still no special types of supreme membership cards for Sheng Tang. They only have some regular membership cards and shopping cards. The senior membership cards will be released next month, once Sheng Tang’s full-scale store rollout is complete.
However, Tang Qing does have a Dream Melody Group’s diamond card, which Liu Qian gave him yesterday. This card is different from the previous ones Liu Qian gave him to get free meals. It allows him to purchase all the group’s products at cost price with no upper limit. The amount will be deducted from the year-end dividend. If it cannot be deducted this year, Liu Qian won’t claim his money but deduct it next year.
It’s not that Liu Qian is stingy. The previous card was to win over Tang Qing, and Liu Qian footed the bill for all ’bad corporate debt.’ But the Dream Melody Group is a partnership between the two, and Tang Qing is also a major shareholder of the company. Naturally, he needs to shoulder the group’s ’bad debts.’
The cashier performed some operations and handed it to Tang Qing, who entered his password.
Transaction completed.
Seeing that the transaction was successful and the card was not maxed out, the cashier breathed a sigh of relief, finally achieving her ’money in the bag’ moment.
"Thank you for your patronage. Please wait a moment. We have gifts and a membership card for customers whose consumption exceeds ¥10,000. Our store manager will come soon," the cashier greeted warmly.
At this time, the store manager, Li Meng, also received news of a significant customer’s visit.
According to the company’s rules, she had to come out and greet him personally.
Li Meng quickly stepped out of the office area, immediately spotting the tall and handsome Tang Qing at the cashier’s counter. Her expression changed and with a warm smile on her face, she walked up to him.
Li Meng approached Tang Qing and bowed slightly, saying, "Chairman, hello, welcome to the inspection."
"Oh, you know me?" Tang Qing said in surprise. He honestly hadn’t seen her before, but with his impressive memory, there were hardly any employees in the company he didn’t recognize. Whenever he visited the company, he often called employees by their names when he encountered them in the yard. Seeing their ’flattered’ expressions, Tang Qing found this tactic to be quite ’shameless,’ ’manipulating’ employee sentiments.
"Yes, Chairman. I saw your photo during the company’s training session." Li Meng said respectfully. Having worked in the service industry for so many years, she understood the importance of recognizing people. If she could not even recognize the company’s chairman and top executives, she might not last long in the company.
Among her peers, she was the best of the branch manager training class, standing out from dozens of store managers to become the manager of Sheng Tang’s first and flagship store in Province City. Without proper preparation, she could never come out on top.
Upon hearing this, Tang Qing nodded. He seemed to remember that the company had such a requirement; assistant managers and above were to be trained at Sheng Tang’s headquarters. However, he hadn’t paid much attention to what the training entailed.
"Hehe, good memory. Keep up the good work. The company’s future depends on all of you." Tang Qing shamelessly spoke in clichés. He couldn’t help it. Once he started speaking, he couldn’t stop. In his previous life, he felt company leaders’ clichéd speeches were insincere and pretentious. But in this life, he realized that bosses had to speak this way. Being too aloof was detrimental to everyone.
"Yes, Chairman. You bought so much..." Li Meng asked carefully, wondering if Tang Qing was conducting a secret inspection.
"Oh, these are gifts for my friends. Our company’s products are really good. My friends like them too, and I can’t just take them for free." Tang Qing explained.
"What the Chairman said is true. Our company’s product quality is unquestionable. Apart from the brand name, our quality and style are not inferior to those big brands."
Li Meng sighed in relief after hearing this. Although she hadn’t done anything wrong, an inspection from the leader was always nerve-wracking. The company had a policy that allowed executives and above to open credit accounts here, with the cost deducted from their salary at cost price. Of course, this didn’t apply to those with company shopping cards. As for the chairman, he could take anything he wanted. She didn’t care if Tang Qing was just moving money from his left hand to his right.
"How’s business these past few days? Any difficulties?" Tang Qing asked with a smile.
Li Meng quickly replied, "Business has been quite good since the grand opening. The first day’s sales broke eighty thousand. Although there was a drop afterward, it has always maintained around fifty thousand. After all, this is the central business district of Province City. With a high footfall and good consumption levels, our company’s various grades and styles of clothing are very popular and of high quality, which has made us quite popular among consumers."
Tang Qing listened and encouraged her by saying, "That’s good, work hard. If the performance is good, we’ll give you a big red envelope at the end of the year."
"Thank you, chairman." Li Meng said happily. If it was someone in their fifties or sixties saying this, she might not be so hopeful. She’d seen too many of those old slick speakers make grand promises and then back out. However, people of Tang Qing’s age cared about their reputations and usually kept their promises.
"Hehe, you’re welcome. I’ll get going now, you all get back to work." Tang Qing, seeing Dou Jiao return from afar, immediately spoke.
"Chairman, let me carry them for you." Li Meng moved forward to take over, not just out of courtesy but genuinely trying to help. However, Tang Qing intercepted her and said, "No need, these things aren’t heavy, we two big guys aren’t tired..."
"Alright then, Chairman, please take care." Li Meng, seeing that she could not resist Tang Qing, had no choice but to relent and pay her respects.
"Ok."
After saying so, Tang Qing and Sun Chao exited Sheng Tang’s flagship store.
Afterward, Tang Qing and his companions went back to the parking lot to put down their purchases. He still needed to shop for his cousin’s gifts, which was inconvenient with so much to carry.
