Retire from the human world

The business of this supermarket can only be described as empty.

This is a provincial capital city on the southeast coast. There are piles of large supermarkets and shopping plazas, and there are all the top [-] foreign-funded retail giants in the world. However, how popular is a small supermarket in the dilapidated lanes and roads of the old city?

Shen Dong was staring at the mottled ceiling in a daze.

Bored, he glanced at the empty shopping mall, and then continued to study the neat row of fluorescent lights above his head.These light tubes have turned black and gray, but they can still work tenaciously, which is really remarkable.

A mixed fruit and vegetable smell permeated Shen Dong's surroundings.

That's right, the job he found temporarily was the fruit and vegetable pricing counter in the supermarket.I don't know if it's because the supermarket is located in a remote place and there are too few employees to be safe, so the people who came to recruit at that time insisted that they don't want women, but men.

Shen Dong was leaning against the pillar. On his left was a row of apples, oranges, bananas, and dragon fruits, and on his right was a row of Chinese cabbage, cabbage, and carrots. They were all neatly stacked in small green trapezoidal grids, with prices written on them. With the brand name of the product, Shen Dong always felt that he was not working in the supermarket, but looking after the vegetable fields of Happy Farm!

Shen Dong glanced at the wall clock on the opposite wall, and almost couldn't help moaning from his throat as if he was dying.

It's only nine o'clock!It's only nine o'clock!He only went to work for an hour, what would he do with the rest of the time?

God, why a food thief - er no, why no customers?Shen Dong felt like he was going crazy. He only went to work for a week, and he was about to finish thinking about all the problems he had to think about for the rest of his life. Every day, he could only stare at the ceiling or the Chinese cabbage in a daze. It's so obvious that I stand stiff and numb every day. In fact, what this supermarket wants is not the employees, but the set boards, right?

Scene board No. 30, the price tallyer of the refrigerated goods cabinet, an uncle in his 100s, [-] meters away from Shen Dong's location, staring at the crucian carp swimming in the fish tank all day in a daze.

Scene board No. 3, an employee in the milk, tobacco and wine area, a girl who only looks about seventeen or eighteen years old, her hair is dyed wine red, and she has MP[-]s in her ears all day long, walking back and forth between several shelves, circling around Going around, staring at her for half an hour, you can be hypnotized alive.

Set board No. 23, Shen Dong, is [-] years old this year. Because he studied a dishonest major, he couldn't find a job after graduation. He was about to be unable to pay the rent. Among the three options of moving bricks on the construction site, delivering express delivery, and supermarket employees, he decisively ran to the end.

Supermarkets are great. They don’t need to be exposed to wind, sun, and rain. They have heating in winter and air-conditioning in summer.Shen Dong also deliberately chose a supermarket that had seen the signboard before taking the bus, but it was not big at all.

Shanhai Tesco.

Look, even people who were born and raised in this city would be stunned for a long time when they heard this name.Is there such a supermarket?Individual private account to open it!Forgive them for only hearing about Wal-Mart Carrefour Century Lianhua.

But with such a poor business, will the supermarket really not go bankrupt?

Shen Dong avoided the surveillance head installed on the ceiling, and took out a folded newspaper from his jeans pocket. It was the introduction of the recruitment information. He read it carefully and was working hard when he suddenly heard footsteps.

Shen Dong stood up straight in a jerk, and raised his eyes from behind the newspaper.

It's people!alive!It turned out to be a customer!

In the next second, Shen Dong's computer froze, and the words "a large wave of customers are approaching" popped up in his mind inexplicably.

It was really a big wave, about 30 people, all walking up from the elevator at the corner, including men, women and children.Everyone was pushing a rusty shopping cart in their hands, Shen Dong stared dumbfounded as they ran towards different shelves, and then he frantically dug out the fruit and vegetable pricing codes from under the weighing table.

Customers with expressionless faces began to line up in front of the pricing counter.

Shen Dong stared at the things in an old lady's shopping cart, almost dumbfounded.

Seeing the old man in his dying years tremblingly carrying up the cabbages one by one, Shen Dong had the nerve to stand still, so he had no choice but to lend a hand.

Chinese cabbage, six pieces, add up to thirty catties.Old man, this is not the season for pickled cabbage!

Next, there are two big bags of kiwi fruit, adding up to fifteen catties... Uncle, are you going to give it away as a favor?One per person, one for everyone upstairs and downstairs in your house?

Next, 25 catties of carrots, kid, usually at your age, no one likes to eat this thing!What about your parents?

Shen Dong tangled and complained frantically in his heart. After he was sweating profusely and his hand was covered with mud and rotten leaves, he could only stare at the empty green trapezoidal shelves in a daze.All the fruits and vegetables that have been passive are left with broken leaves. Those customers only buy one, and they buy it by emptying the shelves. All the kiwis and apples are gone, but the dragon fruit and oranges are still there. Neither showed signs of flipping.

Could it be that the cafeteria sent people to make collective purchases?

Shen Dong looked forward, and the fresh and frozen area on the opposite side was similar. The black fish in several glass tanks had all been fished out, the crucian carp was ignored, and the frozen duck wings and chicken legs were only left with crushed ice, while the chilled hairtail and squid were still the same. Stack neatly.

Such a large group of customers did not speak to each other, they just pushed the shopping cart and turned away.

The layout of Shanhai Tesco Supermarket is a circle, divided into two semicircles by a wall in the middle.Shen Dong was in the center of the east half, so he couldn't see what was going on in the west half, and there was another floor downstairs in the supermarket, which sold daily necessities, towels, toothpaste, etc., and the cash register was there, so even though he was so curious, Shen Dong didn't The way is to follow the past to see what happened.

The mall was empty again, as if nothing had happened.

——I never heard that you need to form a group to go shopping in the supermarket!

Shen Dong was very uncomfortable with the muddy vegetable leaves in his hands. Although he was reluctant, he still yelled loudly: "Uncle Zhao, Little Sister Yuan, I'm going to the bathroom!"

The toilets used by the employees are in the back area, and there is a passage behind a pillar in the vegetable and fruit area, but before Shen Dong took a step, he saw a person walking out from the back area of ​​the supermarket.

Lao Zhao, who was lying on the price counter and staring at the tank full of crucian carp, quickly straightened up, and Yuan Xiaomei, who was circling around the Guangming yogurt freezer, also quickly pulled out the earplugs from her ears, and stood still in place.

Shen Dong, who has been deeply influenced by them for a week, could only stop, twitched the corners of his mouth, and greeted perfunctorily: "Morning general manager!"

The general manager of Shanhai Tesco Supermarket is a standard fat man, short and fat, with narrow eyes, which always makes people feel that this guy is not a good person.Shen Dong only knew that the fat man's surname was Yu, but he couldn't figure out anything else, and he didn't want to figure it out. Originally, he planned to hang around here for three or two months and find a good job with his salary.

——Shen Dong, who has only met the first batch of customers in the seven days since he went to work, still doesn't know how secretive this supermarket is.

"Oh, Xiao Shen!"

Every time Manager Yu saw Shen Dong, his expression was very subtle, with a half-smile but not a smile, he looked him up and down from head to toe, and then walked away thoughtfully, leaving Shen Dong silently cursing whether this guy was mentally ill or not. ill?

But today, something was obviously abnormal. Manager Yu turned his head and introduced to another person who came out of the employee passageway behind him, "This is the employee we only recruited when you were on a business trip, Shen Dong."

Just this broken supermarket and you still have to go on a business trip?

Before Shen Dong finished complaining, he was shocked by the person in front of him.

White shirt and gray jacket, not a suit or leather shoes, obviously dressed very casually, let alone a famous brand, but it has a kind of gentle and refined temperament, the hair is black, neatly combed, and it may be very long, and the end is loosely tied with a black hair band. Under the jacket on the left breast.It looks like an office building or a senior white-collar worker of a large company, or a scholar or an artist, which is definitely not in line with the aura of this broken supermarket.

His pupils were a little light brown, and although there was a polite smile on his expression, there was no smile in his eyes. He stared at Shen Dong, as if examining him, but also with a kind of understanding.Then he stretched out his hand calmly: "Hello."

Although it is polite to shake hands when meeting formally, Shen Dong is baffled.

As an employee of a small supermarket, or a temporary worker who is likely to leave at any time, was introduced to a person with obvious high status in such a weird way?Is it really that this supermarket has too few employees?

Shen Dong stretched out his hand reflexively, and then froze in embarrassment.

He muddled vegetable leaves with one hand!

The other party also saw Shen Dong's situation, so he withdrew his hand without a trace, nodded at him, followed Manager Yu out, and followed the elevator to the first floor of the shopping mall.

Shen Dong watched them walk away in confusion. Although he is a big man who doesn't like to gossip, he also thinks that the girl surnamed Yuan in the milk, tobacco and alcohol area is young but wears heavy makeup and looks like a little girl, so he is afraid of trouble and dare not casually follow them. She started talking, and the old Zhao who sells seafood is a dull gourd who doesn't like to make a sound, but today's situation is obviously beyond Shen Dong's normal thinking range, and finally couldn't help twisting his neck, and asked Yuan Xiaomei, who continued to plug in the earphones and listen to music: " Who is that?"

Yuan Xiaomei who received Shen Dong's suspicious gaze pouted:

"Director Du, at the front desk."

——So Manager Yu is really introducing employees to each other?

Wait, isn't the point of the question that receptionists are supposed to be tall, beautiful young women in suits?Oh no, the front desk of the supermarket seems to answer the phone, the service desk?After-sales service returns?

Is this the truth that a broken supermarket like Shanhai.com still has customers coming to its door?

(How is that possible, you are so naive ==)