sbdcsierra Chapter 171 Battle for Stalls
Chapter 171 Battle for Stalls
Pierre stood behind the counter in boredom, frowning, crossing his arms and doing nothing.
There was a constant stream of people outside the store. Logically, Pierre should be happy, because ever since Joja Supermarket launched the membership card model, there haven't been so many people in front of his store.
However, this was exactly where his trouble lay: this group of townspeople gathered at the door just refused to come in!
It was like a Hakimi who found an empty bottle standing on the table, but couldn't knock it over.
Urgent, urgent! He felt itchy in his heart!
It was as if these people who came to his grocery store were not here to shop at all.
[This is simply a fantasy. If not for shopping, then why are you here? Are you here to watch him perform monkey tricks through the door? Do you think this is a zoo? ]
"I want to see what these people are doing together." Pierre stopped tapping his knuckles on the table, pushed up his glasses, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and went out.
Then he discovered that at the door of his grocery store, in a blind spot in his field of vision, an open-air stall had been set up at some point.
This stall is just like the watermelon vendors along the road, with an electric tricycle loaded with fertilizer bags as the main body. The only difference is that it is not parked on the roadside, but happens to be parked in front of Pierre's shop.
This is just asking for trouble!
Pierre was immediately furious and was ready to find the stall owner to have a good argument with him.
"Grandma Evelyn, take care. It's not hard. Thank you for the scones. I'll deliver them to your door later." A familiar voice came into Pierre's ears from the bustling crowd.
Then he saw his daughter running the stall.
It was like a bolt from the blue. He had already prepared himself for his daughter to live in the same room with him and wander around without his control.
Who would have thought that she would take a different approach, ignoring the stall in the inner room and setting up a stall outside?
"Abi! Did I ask you to set up a stall here? Is this where you are now? And where did this tricycle come from?" Pierre came up and asked three questions in a row.
Somehow, he felt something was wrong.
The contract he had signed with Sean previously stipulated that the innermost and narrowest corner of the grocery store was Sean's rented stall.
Just like supermarkets generally put outsourced areas such as vegetables and fresh produce at the very back. One of the purposes is to allow customers who only buy vegetables to shop around the supermarket, thereby achieving the goal of attracting traffic to the entire supermarket.
In Pierre's plan, even if the stall rented by Sean becomes popular, it doesn't matter if he doesn't get any dividends. He can still use it to attract some traffic and turn it into his own sales.
But can Sean do what this profiteer wants? Of course not.
Sean had taken precautions against this.
Abby continued what he was doing, as if he didn't see Pierre at all.
"You!" Pierre was furious and was ready to bypass the crowd, walk behind the stall and question him in person.
Just then, Caroline ran out from the next room.
She ran up behind Pierre, grabbed his arm and pulled him back: "Pierre! That's enough!"
There was no trace of the former tenderness in her expression and actions. Caroline dragged Pierre into the alley.
Pierre was caught off guard and was dragged by Caroline, staggering and almost falling to the ground. When he saw that it was his wife, he couldn't help but relax a little and keep up with Caroline's pace.
Pierre stopped in the alley. He turned around and looked at Caroline angrily: "Why did you pull me?! Can't you see I'm teaching my daughter a lesson? I need an explanation."
On the other side, the crowd of onlookers gathered in this secluded alley with their curious eyes.
Caroline glared back at him without showing any weakness: "I think you are just old and confused! Abby has grown up, she has her own ideas and pursuits. As a father, not only do you not support her, but you also pour cold water on her. What kind of father are you?!"
Like an old hen protecting her chicks, Caroline spread her arms and blocked Pierre's way, refusing to give in.
Before Sean reached a lease agreement with Pierre, in addition to his own interests, there was also a strong request from Abi. She wanted to prove herself in front of Pierre and completely shatter his old feudal ideas with her own hands.
According to the agreement, after renting the stall, Abi would have a small piece of land in the grocery store warehouse to temporarily store the fertilizer for sale. When the weather was bad, he planned to move the stall back to the store.
And Caroline is the ally that Abby won over through this stall incident.
This is equivalent to driving a nail into the enemy's interior. With this stall stipulated in the contract, it is like having a legal reason to give Abby's series of actions a basic logic, and also a reason to convince Caroline.
Therefore, a few days ago, Abi had obtained the approval of her mother and asked her to come out and support her.
At this time, the onlookers outside the alley also began to talk about it.
"Oh, isn't this Pierre? Why are you so angry?"
"Don't you know? His daughter Abi has teamed up with others to set up a stall at the door to sell fertilizer, and her business is booming!"
"Hey, why is Pierre still angry? This is good, my daughter is successful."
"Who knows? Maybe he is jealous of this miser."
"Is he crazy? He doesn't even know that all his money will be given to his daughter in the future."
"Who cares? There's something interesting to watch, this profiteer."
"..."
Originally, what Abi did was similar to setting up a barbecue stall in front of the restaurant. Although the restaurant did not own the land in front of the restaurant, it was unreasonable.
Logically, this should be criticized, but what happened is that they are a family, and the unfair competition between the two groups has turned into a family affair.
Pierre's extreme behavior was seen by others as petty-minded, one-man show, and inferior.
Pierre's face turned pale as he listened to the discussions of the people around him.
Of course he knew that his money would eventually be given to his daughter, but he hoped that Abby could live according to his plan, rather than like now, cooperating with an outsider on her own initiative and setting up a stall in front of his shop, with even Caroline standing on the other side.
Coupled with the survival pressure brought by the Joja Group in recent days, his blood pressure soared, his entire face turned red, and the veins around the legs of his glasses were bulging.
He looked at Caroline who was standing in front of him with a firm attitude, but his anger did not get the better of him and finally turned into a helpless sigh.
"Caroline, get out of the way." Pierre's voice was low and stormy.
Caroline asked back, "Don't you understand? One day a child will fly on his own. Abby's personality has never been suitable for a well-behaved life. Why don't you let her go and try her luck? Or will her eccentricity affect your self-satisfied authority? Why can't you bear to give up your desire to guide her?"
"But what right does a girl have to make to judge..." Pierre was about to retort when he was interrupted by Caroline.
"You can't deny Abby's talent with just one word. This is a great opportunity for her to show it. Abby made an agreement with me as a mother that she wants to use this opportunity to prove herself. She promised me that the sales of this stall will reach 100WG within half a year."
Caroline told Abby about the agreement she had made with her, "If you can't achieve her, then just concentrate on being a good girl. If you can achieve her, then you have to admit that you are not as good as her. You have to let the child try it on his own, right?"
"Half a year? 100WG, that's nonsense! Even if I sell her it won't be enough!" Pierre sneered.
As a businessman in the town, he knew clearly how great the demand for fertilizers was in Pelican Town. Even if he took all of it, it would take more than a year, let alone half a year, to reach 100 million, not to mention that Joja's products were crowding out the market.
"This kid anticipated what you'd say, and she asked me to relay this to you. She set a goal that you thought was impossible to achieve, to prove to you that you were wrong all along."
Caroline smiled. "If you ask me, you and your daughter have the same personality, both are stubborn."
"Humph, I want to see what new ideas she has. Tell her that I agree to this agreement and that she should stop hanging around in front of me. It makes me upset."
Pierre turned around angrily and went back to his grocery store.