Chapter 223: Out of Stock
"Let's go, let's go to the queue too!"
Lu Xue happily pulled her husband to stand at the back of the line, and as soon as she walked over, she heard the discussion of the two people in front of her.
"What a coincidence, you also came here to buy "Weekly Boys"?"
"It's you, Ha Luha, I heard that this issue of the magazine is about to become a column for the teacher. Moreover, it will be on sale for the first time in Nanhu City, and other bookstores will only be available in the afternoon, so I can't miss the opportunity! ”
"That's right, the scene is so spectacular, this time it didn't come in vain!"
"It's a pity that Huamei opened too late, just open early, I have to go to work later."
Hearing the chat between these two readers, Lu Xue sighed in her heart that the sales of "Weekly Boutique" magazine in the middle and summer of last week broke through a record record, and many media did not take "Weekly Boy" seriously.
But in this situation, "Weekly Boy" may not be worse than "Weekly Boutique".
"Click......"
When Lu Xue heard the sound of taking pictures, she turned her head and found that her husband was holding up his mobile phone to take pictures.
"What are you doing?" She asked curiously.
"It's rare to see this kind of scene once." The husband replied, then pointed to the line in front of him: "Look, there are still a lot of people taking pictures!" ”
Lu Xue looked up, and sure enough, there were many young people taking pictures with their mobile phones, and now people are very trendy, and taking pictures and sharing them online is one of them.
Share? Lu Xue seemed to think of something, but before she could grasp the inspiration, the team suddenly cheered: "Open the door, open the door!" ”
The aluminum roller shutter door of Huamei Bookstore slowly opened a gap, and then suddenly stopped. The clerk inside heard the cheers outside and looked curiously through the cracks. Countless eyes stared at him. She was taken aback.
"So many people!?"
The clerk had been working at Huamei Bookstore for several years. I've never seen so many people gathered outside the door. What happened? All these people come to buy "Weekly Boys"?
The female clerk was a little nervous, she decisively closed the roller shutter door again, and hurriedly ran into the bookstore and shouted: "Store manager, store manager, there are a lot of people buying books outside, we don't have enough manpower!" ”
At the headquarters of the Huamei bookstore chain, the phone rings non-stop.
"Yes, no manpower? This is your inadequate preparation in advance, we ......"
"What is the approximate number of readers in front of the bookstore? It's open for business, and there are no ......."
The operators were busy answering the phone. The two men who bought Huamei Bookstore were different from the previous chairman of the board of directors, and their requirements were very strict, especially for data and reaction speed.
These operators had to record the situation of bookstores in various parts of China in real time, and then have special personnel hand in statistics, and when others were still asleep, they were busy sweating profusely.
Even so, the two managers were not satisfied.
"Slow, too slow! What era is this, they are still procrastinating! The young man with glasses was particularly dissatisfied, and the middle-aged man sitting on the sofa next to him was also frowning. But the performance is more rational: "Forget it, we can't put the old standards here." It's an ordinary company, and the efficiency is okay right now. ”
"Let them quickly calculate the sales expectations in the future, I think the situation is a little wrong, and it would be ridiculous if it was out of stock."
Out of stock, this situation will make these two men shameless to face the old man, and then Huamei Bookstore will be in charge of two other better people.
This time, they didn't want to give it to others.
At seven o'clock in the morning, a quarrel broke out in the editorial office of Phoenix Company and "Weekly Boy".
"If you want me to say a few times, there are not enough magazines in Zhaoyang District, and the bookstore there is calling to urge! Professor Yang, hurry up and notify the publisher and ask them to send the inventory in the warehouse! ”
"No, absolutely not! The magazines in the warehouse will be shipped to other cities in two hours, and there is no excess quantity for Zhaoyang District! ”
The editors were arguing about the lack of magazines, and this week was the first week of the joint sale between Phoenix and Huamei Bookstore, and Phoenix sent half of the magazines to Huamei Bookstore.
However, the current situation is unexpected, and the channels of "Weekly Shonen" itself have shown signs of running out of stock, even in Ninghai City, which is quite well prepared, in just one hour, many bookstores are selling out of magazines.
"Sun Yang, inform the publishing house to print it immediately! The warehouse took the lead in meeting the needs of the surrounding area, and the magazines printed by the publishing house were sent to various places. ”
Ye Xiong, the editor-in-chief of the editorial department, was unhurried and calmly gave orders, his calm appearance was very trusting, but his heart was turbulent.
This issue of "Weekly Boys" is the one with the most works, and the editorial department expects it to sell well. Coupled with the addition of Huamei Bookstore, the number of magazines prepared in advance has doubled!
In other words, although Huamei and Phoenix's channels in some cities have conflicts and overlaps, Phoenix does not have any discount when calculating its own channel sales. Even in the city of Ninghai, they have prepared an expectation of a million magazine sales.
However, now it seems that the editors still underestimated the effect of the three words, and the company's inventory seems to be insufficient.
"I made a mistake in calculation, and I gave too many magazines to Huamei Bookstore." Ye Xiong frowned and thought, he may have overestimated the sales of Huamei Bookstore, he knew that Lu Dao should have given one-third of the magazines to Huamei Bookstore, and two-thirds were sold by himself.
"Zhou Quan, you can call Huamei Bookstore and ask them if they have any extra magazines to return to us."
Ye Xiong instructed an editor, but as soon as he finished speaking, another editor suddenly exclaimed: "Editor-in-chief, Huamei called!" ”
The young editor covered the microphone with his hand, turned back to Ye Xiong and said, "Huamei said that the popularity of the magazine has exceeded expectations, and if we want to provide another 400,000 copies, what should we do?" ”
The entire editorial office inhaled, followed by a dead silence.
"Do you want to add a print?" Sun Yang, who was in charge of negotiating with the publishing house, jumped up first: "Impossible, the publishing house is already working at full capacity, and there is no way to reprint it!" ”
Ye Xiong stood up slowly, he was a little dizzy. What's going on? Not only does Phoenix need to be printed, but even Huamei Bookstore needs it, and both of them are facing the possibility of running out of stock?
This week's "Weekly Shonen" has twice the previous shipments, and the flash report has not yet come out, but the orders for Huamei alone have exceeded the total sales of the past!
What could happen for Lang?
Could it be that the three-word plot is really so good? That's not right, it takes a few hours for a good manga to show its effect, but now it's only been less than an hour since it was released, and almost all readers who bought the magazine haven't read this issue!
"Alice." Ye Xiong shouted, and the blonde-haired female editor stood up: "Editor-in-chief, don't ask me, I'm also confused." ”
Alice frowned slightly, she was surprised and delighted, although she didn't know why Lu Dao's sales would be so hot. However, when readers read this issue of "Weekly Boy", the popularity will further increase, and she is very confident in the three-episode plot of "Detective Conan".
"You don't know what to do?"
Ye Xiong was surprised, there was no reason for this, but he thought about it, the popularity of Huamei Bookstore may be because of their good advertising outside. And Phoenix Company's sales, if the influence of Huamei Bookstore is removed, in fact, the current situation will not be too exaggerated......
Although there are still many doubts, these answers can be investigated afterwards, and now it is more important -
"You reply to Huamei Bookstore first, and we will provide 400,000 copies immediately!" Ye Xiong patted the table, and after finishing the editor who answered the phone, he turned his head and shouted: "Sun Yang, you contact other publishing houses and ask them to help with printing." ”
The editors divide up and get to work, Alice sorts the packages, and she goes to the warehouse to oversee the magazine's mixing.
"Alice, this issue of Weekly Boy may not be as good as Weekly Boutique, but it should be more than half of its sales." Ye Xiong said to Alice: "The gap will narrow in the future, you can inform the teacher of this good news!" ”
"I'll let him know, but I'll talk about it in the next two days......" Alice nodded, and then smiled, "That kid is taking the exam today." (To be continued......)