After buying clothes, Mrs. Mary continued to wait for her daughter Jasmine to browse from store to store. Every time she encountered a store with a digital payment sign, she would slow down and take a few more glances. This also made the astute Jasmine quickly discover her mother's
secret.
Soon, outside a shoe store with a digital payment sign, before Mrs. Mary could react, the sharp-eyed Jasmine took the lead and shouted: "Mom, Mom, that store has a sign too!"
"Yes, that one has a mark too!"
Mrs. Mary was stunned for a moment, then touched her daughter's little head with pity, then held the clothes she just bought in one hand, held her daughter's little hand in the other, and walked towards the shoe store, saying:
"I just want to buy you a few pairs of shoes. You are going to school. You can't wear straw sandals like you are now!"
Hearing this, Jasmine subconsciously lowered her head and looked at her shoes. They were indeed straw sandals, but they were quite comfortable to wear, and it was not like she didn't have other shoes, such as the soft rubber shoes her father brought back to her not long ago.
Those kind of shoes are very comfortable to wear, but in Jasmine's eyes, they are a gift from her father, and they look very exquisite. She is reluctant to wear them at all. The most common ones she wears are straw sandals and shoes made of wood.
But what her mother planned to buy her at this time was leather shoes. No matter how young she was, Jasmine knew that leather shoes were more expensive, even more expensive than rubber shoes!
So she carefully pulled her mother's hand and whispered: "We still have rubber shoes at home. I can wear rubber shoes when I go to school. They are so comfortable!"
"Rubber shoes are not decent, leather shoes are better. Just buy two pairs and wear them interchangeably!" Mrs. Mary made a decisive decision.
In fact, with their family's financial strength, they can afford both rubber shoes and leather shoes, and can afford to buy one pair every day. However, they were used to being poor in the past, and now they are used to saving money.
Not to mention that Jasmine is still worried about learning magic, which makes it even harder for Mary and her family to spend wantonly.
In addition, ordinary people still have a blind respect for leather shoes, thinking that they are worthy of decent people. Even though the money Mary earns now would have been considered decent in the past, she still thinks that she is not decent enough.
But my daughter is going to school and may become a mage in the future, which is decent enough. In this case, what can I do without a pair of good shoes!
In fact, when it comes to comfort, rubber shoes are the most comfortable. There are a variety of styles with moderate hardness and softness to choose from, and they can even completely simulate the texture of leather shoes.
Although Mary herself has never worn rubber shoes that are completely imitation leather, she usually works in the rubber shoe factory in the territory in the afternoons. There is a special display area in the factory, and she has passed by there and looked at it countless times.
In her opinion, the process of making rubber shoes is too easy and is not worthy of the identity of a mage. In fact, it is what she subconsciously thinks her daughter will be in the future.
She wanted to demonstrate this status by purchasing more expensive leather shoes.
But when her daughter was trying on shoes, Mary couldn't help but feel a little confused. There were obviously more comfortable rubber shoes at home, but she still let her daughter wear leather shoes for the sake of face.
This does not mean that wearing leather shoes is definitely more uncomfortable than wearing rubber shoes, but good leather shoes are more expensive, and the actual experience may not be much different from those of rubber shoes.
Thinking like this, Mary suddenly stood up and took the pair of leather shoes that she had just tried on from her daughter's hand, then handed them to the apprentice in the shop, and said apologetically:
"Don't worry, we won't buy leather shoes anymore."
If this approach had been carried out in the past, the apprentices in this shop might have scolded them, but in Daxia Ling, buying and selling requires the consent of both parties. As long as the deal is not reached, it can be canceled at any time.
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Even if the product has been tried, as long as it does not affect secondary sales, there is no need for customers to pay extra costs. Shoes and clothes are typical products that can be tried on for free.
However, even if he doesn't say anything, the apprentice's eyes can't help but look a little unhappy. After all, this is related to his commission. This is one of the few opportunities for him to make money before he completes his studies!
Mrs. Mary did not dare to look at the apprentice, so she quickly walked out of the shoe store with her daughter, then turned around and went to another shoe store, a store that mainly sold rubber shoes. Although there was no digital payment sign, Mary still went.
"Boss, can you see these shoes?"
"Okay, you can take a look at it and try it on."
There are no apprentices in the rubber shoe store. These shoes are purchased from the Territory Rubber Shoe Factory. The boss is actually a second-rate dealer. Even though this shop is selling shoes now, maybe tomorrow the boss will think that something else is more profitable, so he may sell other things.
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When Mary arrived, there were several other non-locals in the store who did not look like they were locals from Daxia, who were choosing rubber shoes. Mary also took her daughter to choose, but she did not rush to check out.
She waited until the out-of-town customers had finished shopping and left, then she took the pairs of fashionable and beautiful rubber shoes that her daughter had picked out and said to the boss:
"Boss, these are not the latest models, are they? Why don't you bring out the latest models?"
"Oh, Madam, you are still an expert!"
When the boss saw that Mary even knew the style of rubber shoes, he immediately realized that this woman was no easier to deceive than those outsiders, so he rolled his eyes and began to complain:
"The new models are to be exported to the Elf Country. Besides, the new models are not easy to make and the price is higher. It is better to buy these old models. Although they are all old models, they are the best-selling ones in the territory. And compared with leather shoes, these
The shoe styles are not inferior at all, and they are even more comfortable to wear!”
There is no reason for a seller not to boast about their own goods, but the boss never imagined that Mary worked in a rubber shoe factory. Although she was not a front-line shoemaker, she was still familiar with some basic processes of rubber shoe production in the factory.
The factory does export rubber shoes to elven countries, but apart from the appearance, the production cost of those shoes is actually not higher than other rubber shoes. On the contrary, because they produce enough at one time, the cost is lower!
So Mary immediately revealed her identity as a worker in the rubber shoe factory. When the boss heard this, his face suddenly stiffened, and then he squeezed out efficiency again and said sarcastically:
"Doesn't the rubber shoe factory give out shoes to workers? Why are you still here? Isn't this just amusement for me?"
"Don't blame me, boss. The rubber shoe factory does distribute shoes to workers, but only to the workers themselves. If my daughter is older, she can indeed wear the shoes distributed to me by the factory. They are distributed regularly and I still have the benefit.
That’s a lot! But she’s still young now, and my shoes don’t fit her. And she’s going to school soon, and the ordinary ones issued by the factory don’t fit well, so I came to the street to have a look.”
Mary's explanation was very accurate. The boss also noticed that Jasmine was still wearing homemade straw sandals on her feet. Looking at Jasmine's childish but strong expression, he couldn't help but feel soft in his heart.
"Okay, then I'll sell it to you at cost. If you think it's suitable, come to my store next time."
Then, the boss quoted a price, and Mary accepted it and thought it was okay. Although it was higher than the ex-factory price of new shoes she had learned about, it was impossible for the boss to buy it for her at the ex-factory price.
After all, the cost of opening a store on East Street is not small. In addition, although the styles of rubber shoes here are not the latest, they are not the oldest either. Mary feels that the boss's quotation is quite sincere. ()