It was only half past nine in the morning when Grace parked her car outside a retail store and headed inside.
"Good morning, mam. How can I help you?" A young woman greeted her as she stepped inside the store.
Since it was still so early in the morning, there was no other customer in the store. Only some employees were seen inspecting the goods and preparing to start their day at work.
"Good morning. I’m here to place a bulk order for Nuts and Seeds." Grace informed the woman with a polite smile.
"Sure, ma’am. Do you already have a list in mind or do you want to take a look around the store to decide what you want to buy?" The woman asked.
Grace scanned the nearby shelves for a second or two before replying, "I’ll love to take a look first and then place my order." Though she did have a short list, she wanted to see if there were some other options that she might like to add in her list.
"Then please this way, ma’am." The woman said while pointing toward the shelves standing nearby before she picked up a tablet from the counter and followed behind her.
As Grace walked through the store, assessing the shelves loaded with all sorts of nuts and seeds, she started placing her order. "I want 10,000 packets of 1kg of all these nuts - Almonds, walnuts, pecans, cashews, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, hazelnuts, pili nuts, chestnuts, coconut, beech nuts, and acorns."
She noticed the woman scribbling words on the tablet with a stylus, writing down her order. Once they were done in the nuts section, they headed toward the seeds section.
Grace took her time to study the different kinds of seeds available there before she finally placed her order. "10,000 packets of 1kg of these seeds as well - Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, flaxseeds, hemp seeds, sesame seeds, amaranth, millet, buckwheat, watermelon seeds, nigella seeds, cumin seeds, poppy seeds, and fennel seeds."
Once the woman had noted down the orders, they returned to the counter at the front desk where she calculated the total cost of the order and offered Grace a discount of ten percent since it was a bulk order.
"Your order will be delivered by tomorrow afternoon." The employee informed as she accepted the business card from Grace.
"That’s great." Grace replied while she made the downpayment. Once she was done with her work in the store, she stepped outside and headed toward her car, ready to head to her next destination.
She was almost done buying the food and cooking related supplies, so she decided to focus on the next important necessity - Medicine and First Aid. However, buying medicines in bulk was far more difficult and attention grabbing than buying even the weapons.
After climbing into the car, she surfed through her contacts before finding a certain number she was looking for. She dialed the number and waited for the other person to pick up the call.
On the second ring, the person picked up the call and Grace heard an old, but strong, voice speaking from the other side.
[Ms. Blackwood, it’s been a while. How have you been doing since your discharge?]
"Dr. Shen, I’m all good thanks to your staff’s great care. I have mostly recovered. Thank you for your kindness." Grace replied warmly before getting straight to the point. "Dr. Shen, I called you today because of an important matter. Do you think we can meet today?"
[Sure. We can meet for lunch at a restaurant near the hospital. I’ll text you the location and time.]
"Then I’ll see you there on time. Bye, Dr. Shen." Grace ended the call after that, only to receive a call almost immediately from the Retail store where she placed order for water barrels and containers.
[Hello, Ms. Brown. We have arrived at the warehouse with the goods.]
"You can start unloading the goods. I’ll there in twenty minutes." She told the employee before ending the call. She then started the car and headed toward her warehouse.
Twenty minutes later, she stopped the car outside the warehouse and noticed that almost all the goods had been unloaded and placed inside the warehouse which she left open on purpose to avoid wastage of time. Besides, there was nothing inside the empty warehouse that could be stolen.
Using a detection feature in her system, she quickly assessed all the goods to make sure that there wasn’t any damaged goods. Fortunately, the store was diligent in handling the order.
"You have done a wonderful job. It was nice working with you." Grace said politely to the employee who came to transport the goods.
"We are happy to hear that. Please contact us again if you want to buy more goods." The employee said while shaking Grace’s hand.
Since all the goods were now safely sitting inside the warehouse, Grace made the remaining payment and watched as all the big trucks drove away from the warehouse, leaving her alone with her goods.
She then walked inside the warehouse and closed the door. Her next task was to shift all the goods inside her space and it merely took her a minute. Then she entered the Infinite Realm and opened the warehouse she had bought from the system. For the next ten minutes, she arranged the goods inside one of the rooms in the warehouse, and as soon as she was done, she got up hear the familiar electronic voice.
[CONGRATULATIONS]
[Points earned: 50,000]
[New Level: 15]
Grace came out of the space only to receive another call, and this one was from the Megamart where she placed order for some miscellaneous items related to water supplies.
Merely five minutes later, several trucks arrived at the warehouse with the goods. This time, the system detected one defected packet of moisturizing wipes that got immediately replaced and earned her a 2% extra discount on the entire order of moisturizing wipes.
By the time she finished arranging the goods inside the warehouse, she had earned another 20,000 Points.