Back to the 1970s: Building My Fortune Through Time Trading-Chapter 436: Year-End Promotion Event

"Hey, are you up, third child?"

It’s the voice of her mom, Liu Cuilan, sounding a bit anxious. Could something have happened?

Su Xiaoxiao sprang up from the bed, shoved on her shoes, and dashed out the door.

"Mom, what’s the matter? Whose ancestors’ tomb is smoking this time?"

Liu Cuilan: "..."

This child, talking nonsense early in the morning.

Whose ancestors’ tomb smokes every day?

"Was everything alright at your workplace last night?"

Su Xiaoxiao had passed on a message through someone to tell her mom she’d be late because of work.

Liu Cuilan waited until the middle of the night to see her come back, noticed how exhausted her daughter looked, and did not have the heart to ask about it then, which is why she came by first thing this morning.

Of course, there were other matters.

"No problem, everything’s sorted out."

Su Xiaoxiao yawned, then glanced over to see a crowd standing in the yard, and was startled.

What is it? Is she still not awake, or is there something wrong with her eyes? Why are there so many people in the yard so early?

An aunt enthusiastically greeted her: "Xiaoxiao, we heard there’s an annual promotion event at your workplace today, when does it start?"

"Is it true that no tickets are needed, and it’s a lot cheaper than usual?"

"This isn’t limited purchase, is it whoever grabs first gets it?"

Everyone was asking questions nonstop, leaving Su Xiaoxiao perplexed.

Turns out, these folks came for the year-end promotional event.

Her mom’s publicity skills are impressive; look, even aunts from the neighboring village came.

Su Xiaoxiao rubbed her face to wake herself up a bit.

She answered the aunts’ queries one by one.

"The year-end sale starts this afternoon and will last for three days. During this time, all products have discounts, and no tickets are needed. The exact offers will be revealed on-site."

"Great, thanks to Xiaoxiao for sharing this insider info. I’m going home to get my money ready."

"Right, it’s time to buy New Year supplies, let’s have a look."

"Perfect timing to get a few yards of fabric for the kids to make clothes."

The group chatted excitedly.

Liu Cuilan watched her daughter with huge dark circles and yawning constantly, feeling really sympathetic.

"Alright, everyone, hurry home and get ready, mind the time so you don’t miss out on the good stuff being snatched away."

With her reminder, the group of aunts quickly responded and went home to prepare.

Liu Cuilan brought out a bowl of delicious noodles: "Hey third child, eat something first, and if you’re too tired, just take a leave and go later."

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head: "No way, if I go too late, I’ll miss out on the attendance bonus this month. I’ll eat and then head there."

Liu Cuilan sighed, this girl is such a money-lover. Look at her, she’s about to get red bloodshot eyes just for that attendance bonus.

She took a few banknotes from her pocket and placed them on the table: "Here’s your attendance money, from mom. Just go a little later today."

Actually, Su Xiaoxiao is a manager now, and even if she arrives slightly late, no one would dare cut her attendance bonus. She just couldn’t openly "abuse her power" that way.

"No worries, Mom, I have money, keep this yourself. If I need it, I’ll definitely ask you."

She smiled and returned the money to Liu Cuilan; she knew how hard her mom worked, waking up early every day to earn a living.

After eating the noodles, she made herself two bags of coffee to perk up, immediately feeling much better.

She rode her bicycle to the department store, and upon entering, she heard many discussing Liu Changjiang’s incident from last night.

"That Liu Changjiang is really despicable, actually trying to set fire to our warehouse."

"Indeed, what a heartless person. If the goods in the warehouse burned down, we probably wouldn’t have been paid."

"Now he’s caught, serves him right, justice is served."

Su Xiaoxiao listened as she walked, feeling touched; one simply cannot commit bad deeds, see how everyone is now against Liu Changjiang.

Since the annual promotion event starts in the afternoon, she had to organize the promotional product list that morning.

There were too many items in the warehouse, and she and Old Wang couldn’t manage it alone, so they borrowed Zhang Yulan and Qin Shuang from the counters.

"Xiaoxiao, I heard you collaborated with the police to capture Liu Changjiang the pest, you’re incredible, brave and resourceful. If this were ancient times, you’d surely be a female general!"

Qin Shuang looked at her with admiration.

Zhang Yulan also had an admiring look: "Indeed, our Manager Su is amazing!"

With more people, things get done quickly; the four worked hard together, spending the morning to finally organize the promotional product list.

During the noontime break, Su Xiaoxiao took the time to draw some promotion posters in the office.

She had learned drawing in modern times, so this little task was nothing.

Quickly, she completed several posters, detailing the rules of the year-end sales.

Basically mimicking the current style of online store promotions, including various discount thresholds, multi-item discount overlays, featuring the concept of more purchases leading to bigger savings.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at the promotion activities on the poster, full of confidence.

Such promotional strategies should also be popular in this era.

After lunch, she went out to put up the promotional posters.

As soon as she put them up, many people gathered around to look.

"Get 20 off every 100 spent, 50 off every 300 spent... Plus two items for an extra 15% off, three items for 30% off... Wow, this is so cheap, I must calculate carefully to see how much to buy for the greatest savings."

"It seems like the more we buy, the cheaper it gets. We could pool our orders together."

"Wow, there seem to be a lot of things. I wonder if we can snatch something."

Momentarily, everyone was buzzing; some were figuring out complicated calculations, others worried about not getting the items, overall every kind you could think of was there.

Approaching 1:30 in the afternoon, Su Xiaoxiao walked to the entrance of the department store with a loudspeaker: "Ladies and gentlemen, I declare the Binhe City Second Department Store year-end sale officially open. We promise you price cuts without quality cuts, all goods are guaranteed for quality and quantity. Come and shop."

"Wow, this young lady looks so graceful."

"Wonder whose girl she is, is she married?"

"Being a manager at such a young age, truly impressive."

Quite a few aunts were commenting on Su Xiaoxiao.

Liu Cuilan stood among the crowd, beaming with pride; her third daughter was truly outstanding.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced over at her mom with a wink, announcing, "Alright, everyone can start shopping now."

As Su Xiaoxiao finished speaking, a crowd of aunts enthusiastically charged into the department store. Luckily, she managed to avoid being knocked over.

These folks were just too eager, quite a handful.

The year-end sale proceeded energetically, the lively scene akin to today’s 618 event.

Su Xiaoxiao roamed around the various sale booths, checking on sales, not noticing the malicious gaze tracking her from not far behind.