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Chapter 153: Group Buying in the Snow Goes Online
After a flurry of heavy snowfall, the essence of winter immediately intensified. Temperatures in Lin plummeted, and many students who still had csses wished they could leave their homes ed in their bs.
Those without csses, after opening their windows to let in the cold air, quickly abandoned any thoughts of going out.
Even Cao, known for his expertise in romance, curled up in his dorm, hesitating to step outside after beied by Ding Xue that m, who had excimed, “It’s so cold, and you still want to date? Do you want to freeze me to death!”
It was on this snowy day that Jiang Qin’s group buying ptform unched precisely at 7:00 AM, opening bistration and portals and iing with the Zhihu forum, occupying half of the homepage with its advertisement.
Instantly, the forum’s usual sky-blue homepage transformed into a bright yellow, matg the theme of the group buying ptform. This sudden ge in color scheme was striking.
Everyone was aced to the sky-blue forum, so logging in to find the homepage’s color ged definitely sparked curiosity. The promily dispyed group buying ptform easily caught everyone’s attention, serving as a basic method of drawing in traffic.
“Guys, it’s too cold outside, and I don’t have csses today. I don’t even want to leave my bed. I’m going to order food through the group buying ptform and stay in tonight!”
“Damn, one b is clearly not enough. Am I going to freeze to death tonight? I’ll buy another one from the group buying ptform, and there’s even a 20% dist!”
“It’s my girlfriend’s birthday today, and I didn’t have time to order a cake. I just pced an order through the group buying ptform!”
“It’s too cold. I’ll buy some cotton shoes on the group buying ptform.”
“The group buying ptform delivers at 8 AM, 12 PM, and 8 PM every day. Guys, hurry up and pce your orders. Don’t miss out!”
“New users get a 20% dist. Holy shit, they even deliver to the dormitory building. That’s so ve!”
Iartup Base 208, the sound of keyboards cttered tinuously.
The tent team, anized by Lu Feiyu, draiheir creative juices, using different ats to stantly boost the presence of the group buying ptform on the forum.
Sihe group buying delivery service had been previously hyped, forum users were easily drawn into the discussion.
“Is the group buying ptform finally ung? So soon?”
“They deliver to the dormitory? Really?”
“In this cold weather, I don’t have a partner, so why go out? I’ll order lund give it a try!”
“I just registered, and there’s a coat in the mall that I had seen before. It’s disted by 100 yuan. Is this for real?”
“ I buy sanitary pads too? Our dorm is too far from the supermarket. This is a lifesaver!”
“Really, they deliver? And there are dists? Sounds a bit unbelievable.”
“Let’s order some instant noodles and give it a try!”
As the marketing efforts tihe number istrations on the group buying ptform’s bad began to climb rapidly.
Su Nai, oher side, stantly refreshed the bad data, rep the traffic situation to everyone in 208.
Everyone in the office was bustling with activity. This sight also stirred a sense of excitement in Cao Xinyue, Hong Yan, and Tang Lin, who were there for different reasons.
They had e to 208 partly to “ride on the coattails” of the buzz and partly to work on a PowerPoint presentation, uo the group buying project.
Aside from being somewhat nervous due to the others’ influehey were also curious.
“Will people really be willing to try online shopping?”
“In this kind of weather, I guess many would be willing to give it a try.”
“That’s true. I didn’t even want to get out of bed this m. If food be delivered to my door, I’d be willing to try it too.”
Tang Lin whispered, then seriously began w on the PowerPoint presentation. However, she couldn’t resist for long and sneakily opehe group buyie in the background.
Meanwhile, Jiang Qin stood by the window, looking out at the snow-covered campus. Although he wasn’t as excited as the people in 208, his mood was slightly fluctuating.
Ye Ziqing’s approach to group buying was to let college students select a reended produ masse, using the rge purchasing volume to iate prices.
Jiang Qin, oher hand, sidered the pedestrian street, the college supermarket, and the Wanzhong Mall as a unified whole. Regardless of what you bought, everything was solidated into one order based on the region, with the merts preparing the stod delivering it through couriers.
Uhis sales model, purchasing and delivery could not yet be pared to the real-time delivery services of the future.
Immediate, on-demand delivery was not feasible.
Therefore, Jiang Qihree delivery times: 8 AM, 12 PM, and 8 PM, to cide with meal times.
Orders pced from the previous day up until 7:30 AM were prepared by the college supermarket arian street vendors. Couriers would then colled check the orders, ultimately handing them over to the dormitory supervisors.
The process for other time slots was simir, with deliveries made within half an hour after the end of the current time slot.
Moreover, the Wanzhong Mall, being further away, only arranged for one delivery per day at 8 PM, handled by the mall’s logistics department.
Uhis model, Jiang Qin signifitly reduced the number of couriers needed, increasing efficy.
This unity group buying operation relied oural advantages of the uy town.
“Boss, we’ve got orders!”
“Mm, keep an eye on it, I’m stepping out for a bit.”
“Okay.”
Jiang Qi 208 and checked the snow accumution at the entrance of the startup base.
The snow wasn’t deep, so delivery shouldn’t be a problem, and his worries began to ease slightly.
He had chosen this time deliberately to take advantage of the invenience caused by the heavy snow, f college students to try online shopping, bined with various opening day dists, to achieve a synergy greater than the sum of its parts.
Wasn’t this a case of perfect timing, location, and human harmony?
A snowy day in a college town where no one wao go out – could there be a better time to unch?
However, sihe weather forecast couldn’t precisely predict the snowfall, Jiang Qin had spent 60% of the previous night w whether the snow would be too heavy and hinder delivery.
Fortunately, the current level of snowfall didn’t pose a signifit challeo delivery.
But this wasn’t without cost.
To motivate couriers in adverse weather, Jiang Qin had Wei Lann distribute an opening bonus to them in advance.
The moself wasn’t important. Getting through this day was the key to a brighter future.
The first unch of group buying, the first delivery, the first cash-on-delivery, the first of everything interected…
Jiang Qin took a deep breath, grabbed a handful of snow, formed a snowball, and forcefully threw it onto the road, creating a burst of flying snowfkes.
Time flew by, and at 11 AM, the arm rang.
Tian Xiangjia, a part-time college student from the stru Engineeriment, arrived at the pedestrian street, parked his tricycle, and stood uhe awning, lost in thought.
He came from a poor mountainous area, with an older sister and a younger brother still iary school.
To gather tuition and living expenses, he had been w part-time he school since his freshman year.
He had distributed flyers, worked as a server in the school cafeteria, and even moved goods iy ter during holidays. He would do anything to earn money.
However, with the increasingly cold weather, it was harder to find odd jobs. He had po take a break, reward himself with a sleep-in, and read some novels. But then he came across the job posting for a part-time courier good pay. Just today’s bonus alone equaled his weekly living expenses.
Moreover, apart from the cold, the job was retively easy.
He just o colled check goods acc to the order list and then deliver them to the three dormitories he was responsible for. It was much more fortable than the manual bor he had done.
But would people really be willing to shop online?
Tian Xiangjia couldn’t be sure and could only wait and see.
Buzz—
Half an hour ter, he received a lo message on his phone, listing various goods and quantities.
Tian Xiangjia immediately perked up, donned a thick woolen hat, covered it with a yellow baseball cap, and wobbled into the street on his tricycle.
There were a dozen others simirly equipped, and they couldn’t help but greet each other when they met.
After passing by the target stores, Tian Xiangjia loudly annouhe pickup code sent with the text message. The store owners promptly handed over the packaged goods, and after verifying the tents, the first part of the process was pleted.
In Building 7, six quilts, eight bs, thirteen pairs of cotton slippers…
In Building 8, three quilts, one b, eight pairs of cotton slippers, and twenty pairs of thick cotton socks…
Tian Xiangjia mumbled these details to himself, and after reg them, he tucked his phoo his pocket ahe daily goods store, quickly heading to the stop.
Meanwhile, ihe college supermarket.
Jiang Zhihua watched as three part-time students in hats came in a with bag after bag of goods. Her gaze became extremely plex.
From her many years of experien business, she khat business was usually poor during heavy snowfalls, as few college students were willing to ve in the cold weather.
But today, when she received the delivery list, she was genuinely shocked.
Instant noodles, co, cigarettes, lighters, ham sausages…
Especially the newly stocked hand warmers – they were taken away before she even had a ce to dispy them, with the delivery guys in yellow hats moviire boxes.
Although these goods were sold at cost price, making her only a small profit, the se opened her eyes to infinite possibilities.
People are being increasingly zy, and ohey experience veniehey’re likely to bee depe on it.
Some say teology ges life, but iy, teology caters to ziness. It’s human zihat truly ges life.
If shopping obstacles reted to time and space are reduced, and one get what they want just by lifting a finger, it’s not just a ge in the sales model, but also a potential expoial increase in sales volume.
“I got pyed by Jiang Qin, but it doesn’t seem like a loss…”
“Are there so many people wanting to drink a snowy day?”
“The instant noodles are almost out of stock, I o call aock immediately.”
Jiang Zhihua mumbled to herself, her expression turning even more plex when she passed by the milk tea bar and saw a stack of cups bearing Jiang Qin’s name.
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