Winter Passes, Spring Comes: Stirring Up Trouble!
Xu Shengli said with a smile, "If you don't believe me, just come take a look with me tomorrow. Wenzhou trinkets sell incredibly fast. Yesterday, there was even a college student who wanted to buy record books wholesale from me. I haven't discussed it with Liangliang yet!"
After hearing that, Guo Zongbao and Old Cao immediately clamored to go see for themselves.
Xu Shengli kept his word. The next day, he really did take the two of them to where he sold his goods.
But he had not brought them along for nothing. He had each of them take part of the stock and sell it elsewhere. In just one day, the three of them sold out everything.
The reason the goods sold so well was entirely because Xu Shengli had targeted the market so precisely.
He had chosen things students needed in daily life, such as record books, fountain pens, towels, clothes, and the like.
The same goods cost more in stores than at Xu Shengli's stall, yet their quality was worse than what he sold.
In fact, during the nineties, many places had factories producing all kinds of small goods. It was just that their competition was nowhere near as fierce as in Wenzhou, so their quality was much poorer as well.
Besides, goods from Wenzhou had once been difficult to transport here, and no one had possessed the nerve to haul them by the train carload from the very beginning like Wang Yue.
The main reason was that the Company Law had only just been introduced before 1994. Prior to that, most people doing business were self-employed.
Self-employed traders did not have the means to transport goods from Wenzhou to Beijing. Naturally, they did not have the proper paperwork either.