Not long after, another little beggar ca over shouting, and several custors couldn’t resist the temptation of the 20% discount and took their prescriptions over to Qilin Hall.
Zhang Shun suddenly found himself idle, he got anxious and whispered to Yun Jiao, "Boss, at this rate, this isn’t going to work, aren’t we just making wedding clothes for Qilin Hall?"
"Why don’t we lower our prices too?"
Yun Jiao thought about it; if she lowered the prices, she would have more advantage than Manager Sun, since most of her dicinal herbs cost nothing, and everything sold would be pure profit.
However, if she lowered the prices, the other side would surely follow suit, and if she went lower, they’d go lower too, just falling into a vicious cycle.
Although she had no pressure to give away her goods for free in a price war with them, potentially bankrupting Manager Sun, Xiang City didn’t have only two pharmacies.
The other pharmacies, once they know about it, wouldn’t let them off the hook?
Once the people get used to discounts or free dicine, if the prices return to normal in the future, wouldn’t there be complaints everywhere?
It’s easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to do the reverse.
Such vicious competition might take down others, but it would also ruin oneself.
Yun Jiao shook her head.
Zhang Shun got worried, "Then what do we do?"
Yun Jiao thought for a mont, imdiately got an idea, "Easy fix."
"Make an announcent saying Doctor Gu won’t be charging diagnosis fees for a few days."
"But you can’t take the prescription away; you must get the dicine in the store."
Zhang Shun slapped his thigh, "The boss is brilliant."
He cheerfully announced to the people in line, "Doctor Gu said, it’s not easy for everyone to queue, so for the next few days, we won’t charge diagnosis fees."
"But the prescriptions have to be kept on file."
"If you need dicines in the future, just give your na, and we can retrieve the prescription."
When the people in line heard this, no diagnosis fee ant saving four qian silver; if the dicine cost does not exceed two taels, they actually gain.
Yun Jiao’s initial diagnosis fee was two qian silver, the sa as Doctor Zhang from Qilin Hall.
From yesterday it rose to four qian.
Yun Jiao originally didn’t want to increase it, but Zhang Shun advised her, "Doctor Ye, the top physician in Xiang City, charges five qian per diagnosis and one tael silver for a house call."
"Your dical skills are better than his; you’ve cured illnesses he couldn’t. We don’t have to charge the sa as him, but collecting four qian isn’t much either, is it?"
"Furthermore, if we charge a bit higher, it differentiates us from the attending physicians of other pharmacies, avoiding angering others by taking all their business, which would be bad."
Yun Jiao found Zhang Shun to be insightful; he made valid points, so she took his advice and increased the price.
When Yun Jiao wrote a prescription, Ah Tie imdiately took it to the counter for Zhang Shun to settle the account.
The store’s business stabilized this way, and prescriptions weren’t leaked out anymore.
Qilin Hall was busy for a while, processing seven or eight prescriptions, but then it suddenly quieted down again.
Manager Sun, who was smiling just a mont ago, had his face turn sullen again.
After waiting for a long ti without seeing any custors enter, the unfortunate attendant was sent out again to gather information.
The attendant returned shortly, shaking his head, "Shopkeeper, our thod isn’t working, Renxin Hall now doesn’t charge diagnosis fees and doesn’t allow prescriptions to leave."
Manager Sun stomped his foot heavily, "Such a cunning little girl."
"You eat at, I’m content to drink soup, I won’t even complain about it, but you won’t even let have the soup!"
However, for the ti being, Manager Sun couldn’t think of any solution, apart from stamping his foot, there was nothing he could do.
Yun Jiao stayed busy until nightfall again.
She didn’t rush to eat but first posted a notice outside, hiring a pharmacy assistant.
Then she sent Ah Tie to call over Huang Yaren.
Huang Yaren arrived quickly, and Yun Jiao greeted, "Sorry, I only have ti now, did I delay your dinner?"
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