I am a VHF franchisee, the end of last year opened the store, did about eight months it! I'll share what I've seen and experienced briefly!
If you want to enter the VHF company to do business, then I advise you to forget it. The salesman who found me a store is now under a lot of psychological pressure, and he left after a few months because he was suffering from a guilty conscience. If you want to enter the VHF company to do operations, I can be very responsible to tell you that their departure rate is too high, I opened the store so far, has changed three follow up on my side of the store supervisor, and in the middle of the three or four months of the window period, the specific reasons why I do not quite understand.
If you want to join the VHF convenience store, I advise you to think twice, after all, who's money is not a windfall.
Limited space, I'll make it short!
Firstly, VHF is a niche brand and does not have the brand effect you want. You can go to reddit.com or enterprise search above search, Foshan City Vihaoke Trade Co., Ltd. was established in December 30, 2015, can only be said to be a developing company. If you imagine that Vihaoke with 7-Eleven or Meiyijia, can often work with Alipay, UnionPay and so on to engage in promotional activities in order to pull customers to spend, then you are really too naive. Some time ago, Alipay launched a weekly card for convenience stores, which can be used by many supermarket chains and convenience stores, but Wihaoke is not able to participate in this activity. The big names don't even know about VHF, and VHF doesn't actively run this kind of business, all they care about is how to expand their stores.
Second, the system is really not complimentary. Mei Yijia can realize automatic replenishment according to the system, Ali Retail's Ruyi pos machine can brush the face, can access takeout with one key, but also can prompt the best-selling products around. Before joining, the investment manager told me how intelligent their system, just in front of the layman to play lip service, and now I am finally able to see clearly, their system is only the cash register and view the turnover, gross profit, inventory of the basic functions. However, it is such a simple function, but also frequent strikes. Later, VHSC upgraded the system, who knows that after the upgrade, the situation is even worse, often can scan the QR code of the goods, can not collect money. The most outrageous thing is that one night, all the franchisees could not log into the system. They also explained that it was due to the owner of a store pressed the wrong place to appear in such a situation. I would like to say, if your system will have a collective error just because a franchisee just pressed the wrong button, don't you think it's too much of a child's play to have such a system? Just such a system, they charge 13,800 yuan, but also called "penny wise and pound foolish". I think, if compared with the Alibaba retail pass only sells 1999 yuan of Ruyi POS machine, VHF's cash register system is worth 800 yuan at most.
Thirdly, it doesn't have its own warehouse. The company does not have its own warehouse, they work with several trading companies, the first batch of goods they will specify the supplier, and claim that the supplier is their own company's warehouse. However, in fact, VHF does not have its own warehouse. The so-called warehouse manager of VHF is actually the business manager of another company. He lives in the neighborhood where my store is located, once, he was drunk and spit out the truth, he said to me personally, he is not in fact the people of V-Hawker, but in the warehouse of another chain of convenience stores as a business manager, he signed a private agreement with V-Hawker, V-Hawker allows franchisees to take their goods, he as the region's business manager, of course, profitable, and he has to be kept secret, can not disclose the The truth. You can think about it, a so-called chain of convenience store brands that do not even have their own warehouses, its development in the end how good it can be? And how much technical support can it offer you?
Fourth, low management quality. The system is not intelligent, do not have their own warehouse, staff expertise is weak, the turnover rate is super high, resulting in their management level is very low. The lack of ability is fine, the key is a very bad service attitude. In the first period, they collect all the money that should not be collected, and in the later period, they do not care about you at all. Compulsory to pay all three years of brand use management fee, not allowed to pay month by month. Employees from top to bottom are flattered personal interests first, I was the opening time scheduled for Sunday, they are not willing to work overtime for me to open, I have to beg them bitterly, the most not go to the heart is that I have repeatedly urged to remember to help me to order the opening baskets, and finally they still forget. Two months after the opening, there are people who come to my store to give some marketing advice, and then for three or four consecutive months, they are hospitable to the shadow of the people can not be seen. The management fee was collected, and the management and service were completely absent. No matter what problems arise, they will shift the responsibility to our franchisees. The person in charge of their operation, in addition to the company with which the supplier has cooperated, asking you to lay goods, never ask how your store business recently ah? Need to provide what kind of help? And will not ask you to the company has no improvement in terms of suggestions.
Fifth, the charges are unreasonable. The company provides decoration, shelves, signs, cash registers, cashier system, liquor and tobacco cabinets, refrigerators, monitoring and so on. The price of Vihoc, I share it out, you feel it! The decoration cost of V-Hawker is at least one-third more expensive than the market price; three-door refrigerator, V-Hawker charge 8,800 yuan, the market price is only about three thousand dollars; cash register system, V-Hawker charge 13,800 yuan, Ali's retail pass Ruyi POS is only 1,999 yuan; monitoring system, V-Hawker charge 3,200 yuan, the market price of more than 1,000 only; in addition, shelves, signboards and other equipment is a lot more than the market price! In addition, the shelves, signs and other equipment are much higher than the market price. Dimension good guest so-called joining, in fact, earning is your pre-payment and the market price of the huge difference between the renovation fee, equipment fees, and the so-called brand management fees and deposits, when these costs are loaded into your pocket, they have succeeded in 99 percent. I now finally understand, why VHF is mandatory for franchisees to pay all three years of management fees. ViHaoKe is a developing brand, they put their whole heart on the wanton expansion above, but forgot to enrich the management and service.