Chapter 115: Optimization Plan, Annex Supermarket

Michael returned to his apartment, having dropped Kate at her friend’s place. This friend was one that she had made during the time that she was still in the police academy.

After settling down on the couch in the apartment, Michael began contemplating on what to do next.

It was impossible for him to make a purchase of the supermarket chain from the Kingsley family.

That business had too many issues that could be exploited, something that Michael did not want to get involved in.

Thinking about this, he asked Adrian to see if there were any dark secrets involved with Sky Technologies.

Since he had already bought this technology company, if those things were there, he would find a method of dealing with them, making sure that they were not associated with the current Sky Technologies.

While Adrian was doing a search on Sky Technologies, Michael on the other hand focused on the issue of the supermarkets.

He went through the system store, trying to see if there was any supermarket chain that could be acquired.

As compared to starting a new supermarket chain, it was always easier to acquire one.

After a while, through filtering, Michael was able to find what he was looking for.

It was a supermarket chain named Annex. This was the second largest supermarket chain, just behind the one that was owned by the Kingsley family.

It was just that, there was quite a huge gap between the two supermarkets, considering that the value of this supermarket was only at $2.4 billion.

As compared to Price Point supermarket chain owned by the Kingsley family, which was valued at $3.6 billion, there was quite a considerable gap.

Michael did not make a decision of immediately making the purchase, but instead, he just began using his skills to access all the information related to Annex supermarket chains.

And a little while later, looking at the information that was on the screen of his laptop, Michael nodded.

It was impossible for such a big business to not have some issues that were hidden in the dark. But as compared to those related to Price Point, at least, these ones can be easily dealt with.

’As soon as this is acquired, I will need to deal with a few employees that are making it impossible for the supermarket chain to be able to improve.’ Michael thought to himself, before he decided to make the purchase.

$2.4 billion was equivalent to 24,000 SP. Michael quickly made the purchase, with his SP balance reducing to 6,020.

After making the purchase, Michael did not immediately follow up on this issue. Instead, he looked at the information that was presented to him by Adrian on Sky Technologies.

As always, the information that was presented to Michael was as detailed, but precise.

Looking at it, Michael narrowed his eyes slightly. It seems, no matter the type of business, there were always some rotten apples.

Among the employees of Sky Technologies, some of them were used to using the company name, causing trouble everywhere.

Additionally, there were those that were taking advantage of the fact that the company had so many employees, that they were exploiting their positions.

Some of them had even gone to the extent that they had began hiring their family members.

Even though this had not yet began affecting the company, in the long run, it would eventually begin to affect it.

After all, most of those that were being hired, they lacked the skills to hold the positions that they had.

It was just that at the moment, they were at a lower level, which was why maybe, Martin had not noticed them yet.

“You can inform Damian, to deal with this lot of people. Additionally, he can do some scouting, to find if they are any talents that can be hired.” Michael stated as he set aside the information regarding Sky Technologies.

For the time being, he had not found anything that could cause any big problem in the future. So, as long as they dealt with the current issue, they could stabilize the company, making the future plans flow smoothly.

“Let me do that now.” Adrian responded before he sent a message to Damian, who was in charge of businesses.

Just a little while later, Damian came in. Damien and Lucas had both settled within the apartment building, with each one of them having an apartment of their own.

Considering that they were within the same apartment building, it was quite easy for Damian to be able to get to Michael’s apartment.

As soon as he entered, Michael informed him, “You can start by dealing with Sky Technologies. I want you to optimize the staff of the company. Lay off those that are useless or don’t qualify to stay in the company, while promoting those with skills.

The salary of those that have performed well so far should be increased, to motivate them further.

Additionally, you can help in scouting more people for different positions, to find more talent for the company.

It doesn’t matter about experience, just the fact that they have the ability of doing what we are looking for. For training, I will find someone to be in charge of that, to train them so that they can fit our system.”

This was part of the plan that he had. It would have been quite easier to just buy bio humans from the system store, as they were not only loyal to him, but they were much more efficient.

With them in charge, it would not be much of a problem for him at the company, and he would not have to worry about anything going wrong.

But, as a human himself, he did not want to have so many humans unemployed. So, instead of giving all the job opportunities to the bio humans, it was better to find humans that were skilled for those positions.

But of course, they had to be of a good character. Otherwise, it was impossible for them to be hired.

Additionally, considering that there were no lack of talents, just lack of opportunities to showcase them, Michael was willing to give those with talents the opportunity.

As for training them, he could find a bio human to train them, enabling them to be able to display their talent to the maximum limit possible.

“Okay, let me make the arrangements. I should be able to be done with this at night, and we can officially start on Monday.” Damian responded.

Since it was still Saturday, a weekend, it was not convenient to be able to do many things. But, Damian could do the scouting during the weekend, then start contacting them, asking them to be available on Monday.

“By the way, let’s start by bringing in two scientists. They can start by first of all getting integrated into the company, and then, optimize the current products that are produced by the company.

After that, we can start launching different products, after improving the quality and efficiency of the products that the company is currently producing.” Michael added.

He had already thought it through. He could just purchase a finished blueprint from the system store, but it was unnecessary, at least for the time being.

Considering that the size of Sky Technologies was not that big, at least not big enough to be able to compete against the technological giants of the world, it was better not to start making big movements from the start.

Instead, it would be better to first of all start by optimizing what they had, then begin attracting consumers.

After that, it would not be too late to start launching new products, after convincing everyone that the level of Sky Technologies was capable of doing that.

Otherwise, launching a product that was 30 years ahead of the current technology, how many people would not suspect something?

So, they could do things slowly, there was no need to rush. Additionally, even for himself, it was not as though there was anyone that was putting pressure on him.

So, instead of doing things rapidly, only to attract a lot of attention towards himself, he could do things systematically, making sure that everything was flawless.

After Damian left, Michael decided to contact Charles. On the way, Kate had given him Charles’s contact information.

Since he had already acquired Annex supermarket chain, it was better to inform Charles about this.

This way, Charles would be able to make the necessary decisions, making it easier for them to be able to cooperate in the future.

But just as he was about to contact Charles, his phone began ringing.

As for the person who was calling him, Michael did not know. Still, he could already make a guess, as not many people had his contact information.

“Hello?” Michael received the call.

“Hello Mr. Santos? I am Justin Clinton, the CEO of Annex supermarket chain. I am contacting you about your acquisition of the supermarket chain. I don’t know when you are available to visit the headquarters?”

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