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The hostess moved from Sanchung to Luzhou in
2004, when she was 22. Now she is 45 years old, and has been selling fruits for
23 years. Although she had a sense of art, she gave up clothing business to
help her husband, who was very busy sources products across the island.
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Apparently she has
very nice skin because of her habit to eat fruits, so she suggested her husband
sell fruits. Having no idea about this business, she suffered a great loss at
first, goods not as fine as appeared, even not as enough as weighed at
wholesale, 1000 kilograms there but 800 kilograms remained home. Fortunately, a
friend, who was also selling fruits, told them to do habitat business, that was
selling fruits in season, for example, selling orange while it’s in season, so
was watermelon. Purchase goods in production area directly without referring to
middlemen, by which you would soon know whose orange or watermelon were popular
and the business would go better.
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Her fruits didn’t
have to be stocked, because they were always well-sold for freshness. Good ones
were sold out, while bad ones were left to be made into fruit juice. Customers
would think the fruit juice of hers was dearer than others’, but having known
its better quality afterwards, they wouldn’t mind any more. The hostess had a
secret that pain would disappear, as long as you smile a little, although she
had to work 16 hours a day and deal with tough customers. “You should treat
customers honestly and earnestly, and they come the first.” She said. Once a customer
bought 3 bottles of juice, but broke one on the way home. He returned and asked
her to compensate him. She did with a small bottle. Patrons would ask why if
she did not come out, which made her happiest.
Exposed to wind and
rain, roadside business was very tough. Afraid of being stressed out, she was
forced to be ticketed by police , instead of renting a room in a shop. With her two sons studying
in universities, she wanted to retire after a while, then she could do
something she liked to,” selling artistic works, for example.
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