Chapter 455: Small tags bring big trouble

Seeing that the May Day holiday was coming again, Mingyu Supermarket put a lot of effort into preparing for this golden week. Not only did it make some adjustments to the products inside the supermarket, but it also produced some publicity posters to distribute them everywhere.

Because of the sales experience during the Spring Festival holiday, Mingyu Supermarket is no longer Chu Ge in dealing with this situation. All departments have been well prepared and have sent special personnel to watch and handle the key links.

Especially in the supply process, we made an agreement with the suppliers in advance that logistics must be kept smooth, otherwise if there is a long-term outage of goods, the supermarket will consider termination of the cooperation relationship.

This threat of termination of the partnership is very useful. Now if you want to enter Mingyu Supermarket, the threshold is not as easy as before. Now the store entrance fee of Mingyu Supermarket is a barrier, blocking many small suppliers.

If Mingyu Supermarket terminates its cooperation relationship due to supply problems during the long holiday, then the biggest loss is naturally the suppliers. After all, they did not spend money to enter the store at the beginning. If they wanted to enter the store after withdrawing, the store fee of up to one million will not be avoided.

Only then did everyone realize the benefits of Chen Mingluo's store entry fee, which is indeed very convenient to restrict these suppliers. In order to ensure that they are not withdrawn from the supermarket, suppliers must ensure the quality and price advantages of the goods, and even some additional requirements.

However, Chen Mingluo's approach is relatively fair and he will not make any non-decision requirements. After all, everyone is a partner of cooperation. The profits made by Mingyu Supermarket in a year are not small, so there is no need to risk damaging the cooperative relationship and make things difficult for suppliers. It is not easy for everyone.

During May Day, something happened.

I received a call from the supermarket manager that Chen Mingluo was having dinner with Xiao Xiao at her house.

After May Day, the weather became hotter and I became a little lazy. Chen Mingluo was talking to Xiao Xiao about going to the beach to play together.

Xiao Xiao wore casually at home, just a small suspender skirt, which was almost half of her thighs. It looked very cool and light, which made Chen Mingluo swallow more saliva after seeing it, and his appetite increased greatly.

When Chen Mingluo received the call, he felt a little disappointed, but after hearing the supermarket manager's explanation, he became more serious, and obviously something more important happened.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Xiao asked with some concern.

"I'm in some trouble at the supermarket, saying that the Price Bureau is going to come and pay a fine-" Chen Mingluo replied casually.

"Price Bureau?" Xiao Xiao was stunned for a moment, not knowing what conflicts had occurred between the supermarket and the Price Bureau.

After Chen Mingluo stuffed two people randomly, he said, "I have to go over and see what the situation is. Although the amount of the fine is not large, there is a problem of rectification within a time limit. What are the specific tricks? It is not clear yet."

Chen Mingluo quickly rushed to the supermarket, and the manager was talking to the people from the Price Bureau. After Chen Mingluo came, he asked him what was going on.

"It is said that our supermarket's products did not paste the price tag as required, and the rectification will be completed within five days, and a fine of 20,000 yuan will be imposed." The supermarket manager explained.

Chen Mingluo curled his lips. There should be some tricks in this. The fine of 20,000 yuan is not a big problem for Mingyu Supermarket. It's just a drop in the bucket. The problem is that the rectification is completed within five days, so there is something to say.

"Is it necessary to paste the price tag?" Chen Mingluo didn't know much about the specific matter, so he asked.

"Obviously there is no need." The supermarket manager replied, "Although the state uses self-selected methods for opening counters, vending machines, self-selected markets, etc., it requires operators to use coders to glue price tags on the goods or their packaging, and to specify clear prices at the product display cabinets according to the variety, but it is mainly for small supermarkets and convenience stores. For large shopping malls like us, settlements are identified through the barcodes outside the goods. Whether there is a price tag actually has no impact."

Chen Mingluo talked to him for a few words and then he figured out the situation. According to the supermarket manager, the practice of pasting price tags on the outer packaging of each product only exists in some small supermarkets on the street. Large supermarkets basically use barcodes to manage product information and price management.

"That is to say, although you can't see price tags pasted on the outer packaging, the barcode is the price password, which is written on the goods." The supermarket manager explained, "The relevant regulations of the Price Bureau are more applicable to consumers in small supermarkets. However, with the development of the times and the advancement of technology, large supermarkets currently basically use barcodes to manage product information and price management, and there are large brands with clear prices at the counter of each product, which is beyond doubt."

After hearing this, Chen Mingluo nodded and roughly understood this matter.

In fact, barcodes, as the unique identification code of similar single products, have always been printed on the outer packaging of products. To a large extent, this code reduces corporate costs and is far superior to traditional single product management methods in reducing resource waste, improving efficiency and reducing error rates.

Although it means that Yu Supermarket does not paste price tags on some beverages such as bags of soy sauce and vinegar or single bottles of beverages, this does not prevent everyone from purchasing. In order to help customers confirm the price of the products they have obtained, Mingyu Supermarket also specially provides a price query machine on the site, which can conveniently allow consumers to query the prices of goods at any time. It should be said that this method has fully met the country's requirements for clearly marked goods.

The most important function of product barcodes is to trace the source, that is, when a product fails, the location and manufacturer of the product can be found immediately through the product barcode.

If the barcode is not used properly, especially in the fields of food, medical devices, children's toys, etc., once product quality problems arise, consumers' interests will not be guaranteed, and even consumers will have no way to claim compensation.

In fact, the product barcode is equivalent to the ID card of a product. If the number or information on it is incorrect, it may cause the product to be unrecognized or misread as other product information.

Of course, the price difference is too large, consumers can notice that if the price difference is not large, consumers are likely to suffer losses due to this.

Many supermarkets have long queues when checking in cashiers, and the irregular barcode management is also an important reason.

Every time I go to the supermarket to buy things, as long as there are a large number, there will definitely be barcodes of certain products that need to be entered manually because they cannot be identified. This greatly affects work efficiency and delays each other's time.

The supermarket manager has also negotiated with the people from the Price Bureau for these situations, but the other party did not agree with this statement, but just kept the word "standard" and required the supermarket to complete the rectification work within five days, that is, to label each product with a price tag, otherwise it is not ruled out that more intense measures will be taken.

"This is because I am sincere in asking for trouble!" Chen Mingluo was also more annoyed after hearing this.

The Price Bureau did not come to the store casually. Someone came to the supermarket for a while before and found that there was this problem in Mingyu Supermarket, so he became sensitive immediately. Then he went to the Price Bureau to report the matter, asking the price department to punish Mingyu Supermarket and reward it, and requiring Mingyu Supermarket to stick price tags on all products.

"There is nothing to fine, but this rectification is too much. How could we complete such a huge task within five days?" The supermarket manager glanced at the huge supermarket and said to Chen Mingluo with a helpless look on his face.

After the supermarket manager said this, Chen Mingluo also estimated that even if his supermarket closed down from now on, and letting employees carry forward the style of continuous combat in five days, they may not be able to complete one-tenth of the workload. This is simply bullying people!

Besides, Chen Mingluo also learned that in large supermarkets, people basically do not put price tags, because large supermarkets use barcodes brought by the product themselves to identify and judge, and the prices are fixed inside the computer where the charges are charged, so there is no need to go through that procedure.

Moreover, Chen Mingluo also calculated that if you use price tags in large quantities, the additional cost of each small item will be increased by nearly 20 cents, which is also a considerable expense. The supermarket needs to pay hundreds of thousands more to put price tags every month. If you spend a year, you may not be able to pay millions of dollars in the expenses?

After so careful calculation, Chen Mingluo was also shocked and thought that this was just a simple economic account. As for how much the workload of employees will increase, he could not estimate it. However, no matter what, it is difficult to complete such a task just by relying on current employees.

"So, boss, what should you do when you see this?" The supermarket manager looked at Chen Mingluo with a gaze and asked him for advice.

Chen Mingluo was also very imposing for a moment, but he thought that since his supermarket encountered such a problem, other large supermarkets must have encountered similar problems. Since it is a problem faced by his peers, it is better to join forces to put this matter on the desktop to discuss it, and the effect should be better.

So Chen Mingluo decided to say, "As for the fine, it's okay to give them first. It's not easy for them to come out, and the leader will definitely be unhappy when he goes back empty-handed. However, I need to contact several supermarkets to solve this problem and study how to deal with it. After all, in such a big event, we cannot fight alone."
Chapter completed!