Yang Ruoqian had finally met a cost that failed to comfort him.
Paper sleeves, storage labels, one shelf, and a staff member spending a few extra minutes at the counter.
That was all.
The so-called non-membership card record did not require an app, a database upgrade, a promotion budget, a designer, a new system, or even a proper campaign name. It sat quietly inside the old cinema like a poor student with excellent exam results, using almost nothing and making Yang Ruoqian suffer a great deal.
Low cost should have been good for profit.
For Yang Ruoqian, low cost was a disaster because it gave him nothing to attack.
He called an emergency meeting with the face of a man dealing with a major financial risk. The actual risk was a stack of paper sleeves.
"Raise the cost," he said.
Everyone looked at him.
