Because Zachary’s Cave had become self-sustaining, with an abundance of common meats and grains, Dong Tianyu took this opportunity to start cleaning out his storage space.

Although Dong Tianyu had already put up a sign for his store, not many people came to trade at first, because those who could afford to shop there were not lacking in everyday food and drink.

However, people are peculiar. When no one was entering the store, the front was deserted, but once someone began shopping inside, the number of customers entering the store would paradoxically increase.

If those who first entered the store to buy food did so impulsively after seeing Dong Tianyu’s LED sign,

the subsequent customers were attracted by the number of people shopping inside, feeling that the items in Dong Tianyu’s store were priced cheaply, thus joining the crowd and entering the store.

They weren’t wrong in their assumptions, as Dong Tianyu had indeed browsed the market before opening his store. While his prices were not the lowest in the market, they were definitely the lowest for the same quality of products.

Luckily, Dong Tianyu once had a zero-cost purchase at the Black Tortoise Market, which provided him with enough plastic bags to package the goods chosen by customers.

This place was indeed in a big city. Dong Tianyu openly took supplies out of his storage space, and although the customers inside the store were somewhat surprised, most of them were merely momentarily astonished and didn’t pay it much mind.

From the customers’ reactions, Dong Tianyu could guess that in this base, people had become accustomed to equipment with storage functions.

As time went by, the reputation of Dong Tianyu’s store grew wider, and with more customers coming in, he no longer sold as much as the customers wanted, like at the beginning.

Instead, grains were sold by the bag, and pigs, cattle, and sheep were sold whole, as well as chickens, ducks, and geese, because of the abundant Spirit Energy in the Cave, which meant that most of the livestock and poultry were not much different in size by the time they were ready for sale.

With the passing of time, the goods in the store, which previously had been selected by customers and paid for before delivery, "no selection, no inspection," turned into "take what you’re given."

This type of sales model, if placed before the disaster, would mean the store couldn’t last long before closing, but in the current times, it was not necessarily the case.

The reason is actually quite simple. First of all, it must be said that although Dong Tianyu was selling common food, at this time, without a new stable source, meat prices remained high, and many places had no supply despite the demand.

Not only did Dong Tianyu have the stock, but the prices were also not considered high. Moreover, in the later phase, goods were mainly sold whole. If sold by weight, people would be concerned about a slight discrepancy,

but with whole pieces, most people didn’t mind an ounce more or less, as the large base number made them subconsciously ignore the minor differences.

However, if it were only this, Dong Tianyu’s business might not have been so successful.

Dong Tianyu seemed to trade straightforwardly, but he also played a smart trick, certainly not one involving short-changing as that kind of actions, if discovered after happening too often, would lead to a poor reputation.

The reason the store attracted so many people, frankly, was not complicated. Because Dong Tianyu sold meat by the piece, with payment first before delivery, he did not select the goods when taking them out of the storage space.

Although the majority of the livestock and poultry were roughly the same size after slaughtering, outliers were a normal occurrence given a large enough quantity.

The reason Dong Tianyu’s place drew so many people was that he didn’t specifically cherry-pick during sales. If a buyer was lucky, they might encounter one of these special individuals while purchasing, and Dong Tianyu would deliver it in order.

If, at the time of purchase, you’re fortunate enough to get the larger pieces of meat, Dong Tianyu wouldn’t ask for extra money and would deliver without a fuss.

And if you got one of the smaller pieces, that wasn’t bad luck, that was having the god of fortune on your side, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say you were stepping in luck.

The reason why obtaining smaller pieces of meat was seen as fortune smiling upon you was that if it was livestock meat, Dong Tianyu would give the customer another piece for free due to the smaller size.

Even if the individual pieces might be smaller, the weight of two combined was definitely much more than a larger single piece.

If it was poultry, it was even simpler. Before the disaster, many businesses liked to offer the second item at half price, but Dong Tianyu didn’t go for that.

If the purchased poultry was too light, then congratulations to the customer on getting another one for free, not at half price but completely free of charge.

Because of Dong Tianyu’s tactics, his store’s word of mouth spread, and with friends calling friends, business became increasingly prosperous.

Perhaps because the market had no differentiation between day and night, the busy Dong Tianyu didn’t even have time to check the time. If it weren’t for the tablet reminding him to renew his fee, Dong Tianyu wouldn’t have realized that he had been busy for a whole day.

Looking at the orderly queue from the inside of the store to the outside, Dong Tianyu happily renewed the rent for another day, then continued to immerse himself in the blissful task of clearing out his storage space.