Chapter 666 Update, Start!

As the morning light shines into the winter city, the sleeping people are quietly awakened.

The winter vacation and the weekend make the business districts in various places extremely lively. After many years, Stephen Chow returned to the big screen as a director and brought a movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" to the Lunar New Year file, which has begun to warm up.

And major shopping malls have also launched various promotional activities or bundled marketing to continuously add fuel to the prosperity of the market.

Cui Yiting's nail salon in Kyoto also ushered in the peak season at this time, with customers from morning to night.

She is the person who has been most out of the Internet business. Now she is working in the service industry. Although she doesn't have the excitement of burning tens of millions at the beginning, she feels very at ease.

What you earn is your own, which is more comfortable than taking other people's financing to burn the industry.

However, although she has been out of the Internet business, Cui Yiting can still feel the gunpowder smell of the Internet business war from time to time.

For example, the market competition between Alipay and Pintuan Cloud Flash Payment now.

During the period from summer to autumn, the promotion of Cloud QuickPass was huge, and coupled with the linkage effect of business circles such as Xihanheqing and Wanzhong Mall, Alipay was almost squeezed into a corner.

But after winter, with the popularity of payment boxes in first-tier cities, Cloud QuickPass was suppressed by Alipay again.

Maybe for ordinary people, half a year is long enough, but for business behavior, Cui Yiting's feelings can only be described in four words, changing rapidly.

Most of the people who come to their store for manicures are young women in the nearby CBD, who are very receptive to popular things.

Before the arrival of winter, these people bought consumption coupons in group buying before going to the store to consume, but since Alipay launched offline consumption subsidies, almost half of the users no longer use group coupons, but start to scan codes to pay.

It is precisely because of this that Cui Yiting has recently received a lot of Alipay merchant bonuses alone.

Busy until noon, Zhang Xu, the ground promotion manager of Alipay, lifted the door curtain and entered the store.

"Ms. Cui."

"Manager Zhang, why are you here again?"

"Why do you make me sound like a plague god? I'm here for a new mission."

Zhang Xu opened his bag and took out a new poster of Alipay: "Please post it in the store, Ms. Cui."

Cui Yiting took a look and saw that it was a warm-up poster for Alipay to increase its discounts.

After all, she had worked as a publicity manager for Lashou.com. She only took a look and knew that Alipay was planning to use the winter vacation and the New Year period to completely conquer the market and would not leave any breathing space for Cloud QuickPass.

"How much is the merchant subsidy?"

"It's still the same algorithm as before, no change."

Cui Yiting frowned: "Isn't that right? Why did I hear that Alipay's merchant subsidies have also doubled?"

Zhang Xu grinned: "The double subsidy is for catering merchants."

"Oh, you still treat them differently? Do you look down on our nail salon?"

"Miss Cui, are you kidding? You've done big business before, how could you not understand this routine?"

Cui Yiting pursed her lips, sent Zhang Xu away, and then threw the Alipay poster on the counter.

Since Pintuan lowered Alipay's priority, offline catering has become Alipay's shortcoming. After all, the habit of buying coupons before going out for a meal is not so easy to change.

So, Alipay's money-burning campaign this time is mainly aimed at merchants and consumers in the catering industry.

With the support of the Pintuan supply chain, it is unwise to compete with Pintuan in the catering field, but what if one sum of money can burn out three markets: payment, group buying, and takeaway?

Alibaba is a big company with abundant capital flow. Pang Rui thinks that even if the offline catering field is a tough nut to crack, she has to gnaw on it.

"Yiting."

Just when Cui Yiting was distracted, another customer came to the nail salon.

She was wearing a black long skirt, a white suit, a tweed coat, a pair of boots on her legs, an LV bag in her hand, and bright pendant earrings on her ears.

Cui Yiting looked over and found that her good friend Ye Ziqing had arrived.

"It's been half a month since we agreed. Why are you here now?"

"I can't help it. I have to focus on work. If you have any popular colors to recommend recently, please make one for me."

Ye Ziqing said, took off her coat, handed it to the waiter together with her bag, took off her watch and Buddhist beads, and sat in front of Cui Yiting.

Cui Yiting twisted her waist and took her to the private room inside: "Fashionable colors and the like are all gimmicks. It's best to suit yourself. I'll call the chief manicurist in the store. Wait for you."

"I think you, the chief manicurist, seem to be a gimmick."

"You know a lot. I do manicures for you for free. Can't I blow it?"

Cui Yiting called the best manicurist in the store and started to trim her nails. During this time, the two girlfriends chatted casually.

To be honest, Cui Yiting felt that Ye Ziqing had changed a lot in the past two years.

When she was in Linchuan before, she didn't even care about decorating the house. She didn't know that the things in the refrigerator were expired. How could she have the mood to do manicures? It's a lot better in recent years.

It's because after joining the group buying, I reconciled with my previous failed self.

Cui Yiting looked at her and said, "Let's have hotpot together tonight. I haven't been there for a long time."

"Not tonight. I have work."

"What about tomorrow night?"

"I don't have time either. And not just these two days. Maybe from now until the Spring Festival, I won't have time to have dinner with you."

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After the manicure was done, Ye Ziqing left in a hurry. Cui Yiting sent her out the door and saw that the LED screen opposite had been changed to Alipay offline payment carnival.

At this time, the Elebu team and the Koubei takeaway team were meeting in Hangzhou.

Alipay was officially updated today and connected to two softwares. During the consumption subsidy period, these two companies will work together with Alipay to snipe the group buying market and takeaway to retain users and create troubles for friendly companies.

To be honest, this plan is too thorough and it is almost watertight. Think of fishing, dipping nets, and carrying buckets.

Even a strong woman like Chen Jiaxin couldn't help but feel weak psychologically when she saw Pang Rui's comprehensive layout.

And Zhang Xuhao directly put himself in Jiang Qin's perspective and broke out in a cold sweat.

If I were Jiang Qin, I would be so panicked and I didn't know how to break the situation!

The atmosphere at the meeting was very warm. No one dared to imagine how powerful the three companies would be. At this moment, Zhang Xuhao had collapsed on his chair, gasping for breath.

Their team has now settled in Alibaba. Materials, banners, marketing cases, promotional soft articles, everything is undergoing final review. Everyone is running around, full of energy.

"I will dominate the market!"

"Let him know what it means to be alone. Business is definitely not a solo!"

"Update, start!"

At this moment, the new version of Alipay is launched on major application markets, and the homepage of Ele. Buhekoubei Takeaway has also been replaced with a banner of discounts. The momentum of the union is roaring!

Cui Yiting went to buy coffee at noon, and found the update prompt when she opened Alipay.

After the update was completed, Ele. Buhekoubei appeared on the homepage, and there was even a small label of 20% discount on the icon.

Cui Yiting took a deep breath and thought that Alipay had never thought of leaving any way for group buying.

They are not only fighting in the payment market, but also taking back the takeaway and group buying markets. The methods of the big companies are indeed extraordinary.

She returned to her nail salon with a cup of coffee, and suddenly saw a group of group pushers hurriedly passing by her and entering the barbecue restaurant next door.

Sometimes, some inconspicuous things will be overlooked if you don't pay attention, but when you really pay attention, you will find that this street seems to be full of group pushers.

They go back and forth between major stores, carrying bulging bags, and basically rotate every half an hour.

Cui Yiting stood at the door of the nail salon, trying to block the passers-by in her eyes, and found that the group pushers with work badges were constantly expanding their scope, and the activity area was gradually radiating outward.

She poked her head slightly towards the barbecue restaurant next door, and found that the group pushers who had just entered, together with the waiter, untied a piece of sticker and stuck it on the corner of the table with a snap.

From one store to another, the group pushers were swift and swift, sweeping the entire CBD.

"At this time, no matter how many advertisements are posted, I'm afraid it will be useless."

"The general trend is unstoppable..."

Cui Yiting shook her head and turned to enter her own store.

The business was busy until after seven o'clock in the afternoon. When the last customer who had a manicure left, Cui Yiting also carried her bag and planned to leave.

But just after she walked out of the door, she found that the door of the barbecue restaurant next door had a large group QR code posted, which was bright and eye-catching.

There were many people who came to eat barbecue in the evening. Under the introduction of the waiter, they opened the group and scanned the QR code at the door.

After scanning the code, some people thought about it and chose to leave, while others sat on the stool at the door and chose to wait.

Cui Yiting watched for a long time. Out of curiosity, she also took out her mobile phone to scan it. After the page jumped, it showed that there were three tables of guests in front of her and a queue number was generated.

"?"

Cui Yiting was stunned for a moment, thinking that the group function was quite convenient.

However, with Alipay and Ele.me working together to improve their reputation, is it really useful to use the method of facilitating users to increase their favorability?

Then she started to wait until the waiter read out her number and invited her in, and she found that the mobile page had jumped to the ordering page.

But due to an operational error, Cui Yiting accidentally exited the page before she finished ordering.

So the waiter pointed to the corner of the table and said that you can also scan the code here to order.

After scanning, Cui Yiting re-entered the ordering page and found that there were all kinds of meat dishes, vegetarian dishes, cold dishes, skewers, wine, beverages, etc.

She was going to eat in the evening, so she started to add it to the shopping cart. After clicking the order, she entered the checkout page and automatically jumped to Cloud QuickPass.

After paying, Cui Yiting started to wait for the meal and then began to observe the situation in the store.

This barbecue restaurant has always been very popular. Not only does it have dining on the first floor, but it also has private seats on the second floor. Because it is close to her own store, Cui Yiting has also brought her employees to eat several times.

But the previous few times I came, the bar was crowded with people ordering food, and the waiters in charge of taking orders were always in a hurry, and there were many mistakes and omissions.

As for the people on the second floor, they either had to order food before going upstairs, or they needed the waiters to go upstairs to order food. Five or six people kept running up and down the stairs, plus the waiters serving food, the scene was extremely chaotic. After a day of business, the waiters would at least lose half their lives.

But today, from the bar to the second floor, it was particularly empty and quiet. Except for the waiters serving food, the other waiters were very leisurely.

Soon, the skewers Cui Yiting ordered arrived, and then they started eating.

Girls are more concerned about their figures, so they don't eat much at night. Cui Yiting is the same. Half an hour later, when dinner was over, she couldn't help but stare at the Alipay small white box at the front desk and fell into deep thought.

She didn't go to the front desk at all from the time she entered the door to the time she finished eating.

At this moment, she found that a waiter came hurriedly and reached out to peel off the poster of Alipay's offline consumption subsidy that had just been posted.

(Please give me a monthly ticket, please give me a monthly ticket...)