Chapter 432: Chapter 432
The rent for the supermarket in the city was fifty yuan per month, and he spent approximately US$ 3,000 to US$ 4,000 on simple renovations.
The shelves and all were purchased from Space Supermarket, and the cost was only the original cost of one hundred thousand yuan from the Space market, which did not involve the money earned externally.
After opening, the main expenses were electricity, staff salaries, rent, and routine promotional costs. He produced the promotional leaflets himself using a printer he bought for color printing.
It was tough at the beginning, truly very tough, so tough that he had to rest in the space.
Although he launched many promotional events when the business first opened, sales were not good due to pricing issues.
This place, unlike the wholesale market over there with gradual customer accumulation, had space to grow and an unreliable sales model (take goods first, pay later). So, people were still in a stage of getting familiar and tentative, and it made sense that business wasn’t good. Find the newest release on NovєlFіre.net
Because business was poor, he managed to keep up with it. Otherwise, how could he possibly take care of both ends at the same time?
But even with poor business, he was making a profit because the items from the space practically had no cost to him.
He made more than one million yuan by selling Monkey Stamps before. After several years of expenditures, one million remained. That one million alone was enough to supply the supermarket for several years, and with the additional income from the space’s farmland, he could endure. As long as he survived this phase, the business was bound to rise steadily.
From 1986, tax and business registration began to make the agenda, and management gradually matured. Fortunately, inspections were only on the products, and taxes were levied based on assessment. Just paying a token amount of tax each month would suffice. Overall, he could handle it since he was just a sole proprietor, not a company with many more hassles.
As long as the rules were followed, no one would cause trouble for you. After all, at this stage, entrepreneurship was encouraged by the government, and no one would clamp down on you.
And he intended to make the most of this phase to vigorously develop his business.
Niuniu was now attending primary school in the city. Before opening the supermarket, he had bought a Courtyard-style old house in the city center. After renovating and sprucing it up, they had moved in, but due to the distance from the supermarket and its location in the bustling area, he didn’t have the goods delivered to his own house.
He rented a place nearby with fewer residents, effectively using it as a warehouse, which was convenient for the flow of goods. So, regular stocking happened there.
Niuniu had been very independent from a young age. Even after starting primary school, she didn’t need to be accompanied. She went to and from school on her own every day. The house had pastries and bread he made himself, and when she was hungry after coming home, she’d snack on those until he returned home around seven or eight in the evening, then he would cook for her, and the father-daughter duo would dine together.
Niuniu grew more and more beautiful, wearing clothes he purchased from the space, including the pretty headbands—it could be said she was brought up in affluence from a young age.
She also excelled academically, liked to share food with everyone, and was loved by teachers and classmates, allowing her emotional intelligence to be well developed during this stage.
Of course, the reason Zheng Long dared to let her go to and from school on her own was that from a young age, she had followed Zheng Long in early morning exercises. Apart from long-distance running to enhance her constitution, he also taught her boxing and close combat skills. After all, he came from a Reconnaissance Soldier background and might have been selected for the Special Forces if he hadn’t been discharged. How could a daughter trained by such a father be anything but extraordinary?
Even if she didn’t have much strength due to her age, with her skills and the self-defense methods he had taught her, the girl was certainly not someone to be trifled with.