The Industrialist

Chapter 129 Store Openning

Omnexus Market

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George and Joe stood behind the counter, both in attendance for their soft store opening. On their counters were rare-level scrap materials, and very few Masterwork-levels. They kept the Zelkians behind the counters and some multi-colored gem necklaces that the Outsiders made, hung on the right side of the store's facade. On the opposite end hung wild Celestial Snapdragon Flowers found along the riverbanks of Asphodel mountains.

What made these flowers expensive was their petal colors like that of a dragon skin, with the reddish-yellow combination. Even the petal texture emulated like that of a reptile species.

Lance had planned out the type of materials to be sold in his store. They were unique from the others. With his available merchandise, Lance was hopeful to gain fifty thousand units in one day.

Although the store looked bare at first, it cost him around 10,000 units of investment and the gross sales for everything would give them around 40,000 units.

Joe and George's faces seemed ecstatic. They greeted passersby with obvious effort.

Lance was in front, trying to invite customers. Some of the potential clients knew him in the news, about his stunt during the Abominant attack, and others approached him about the RoFlo project, probably, the WWMD Executive Directors, from the looks of them.

They approached the store, the ones who knew him.

"What do you call these flowers?" One potential customer asked.

"Celestial Snapdragons, good sir," Joe answered after he greeted with a smile.

Although these undercover rebels hated much about the high-classers, what they participated in greatly contributed to the cause.

"How much per flower?"

"500 units each, good sir," Joe answered. Lance knew that the prices were preposterously high. They only bought the flowers from the Outsiders 100 units each.

"I'll take ten flowers," the man said.

"Got it, sir." Joe took ten flowers from a hanging rack and bundled ten flowers together beautifully with a tie wire.

'That's five thousand units easy,' Lance thought.

The other bought flowers, too, twenty of them. The remaining of them.

'Another ten thousand units.' Lance thought, his smile was uncontrollable. Fifteen thousand units in an instant. Now, he understood that these High-Classers buy various unnecessary things while the Commoners only buy necessities. A clear mocking truth about the world.

After a few hours, he found Grebert from the WWMD sauntering from stall to stall. His path crossed upon Lance's store.

In the afternoon, all of their gemstone necklaces were sold for fifteen thousand units and a High-classer scientist bought a rare-level Aetherium Hard drive for their large equipment project, which gained them four thousand units.

At the end of the day, they fell short of their target of fifty thousand units in gross sales and only gained forty thousand units.

Even so, the business boomed on its first day. Lance had to make replenishments. Flowers, gemstone necklaces, and some rare-level tech.

Jasper displayed their progress via Lance's retinal screen.

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[Available Currency] 71,000 units

[Previous transactions]

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[Total material investment] 10,000 units

[Total gross sales] 40,000 units

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Lance was sure that Damian would grumble in annoyance for another material replenishment. The latter could not just deliver materials every day for bulk replenishments.

He heard of this method called Demand Planning. It's a skill that a business owner should possess – forecasting material movement, shelf life, supplier lead times, and storage capacity.

It was an acumen that Lance should possess. However, he only had his stock knowledge taught by common sense and a little from his father, and of course from his observations during business transactions as a scrapper.

"George, tell Damian to double the replenishments tomorrow. I will invest 20,000 units."

"What about the delivery payments?" George said.

"Of course, here's 1000 units for Damian's delivery." Lance transferred units via Holosync.

After they closed early at 2030 H, Lance told them about the plans for procuring Quantum Flux Capacitors. And they needed guns. Hence, a message should be relayed to the Council.

"Joe, tell the council that I need 100 units of QuasarFlare Blasters. Maybe they could ransack one factory."

Joe nodded.