The Hardware and Decorative Materials Malls, the first professional wholesale market in Fuzhou, opened on trial on August 8th and would formally go into operation at the beginning of next year. However, six or more of the 50 shopkeepers want to transfer their stores when the mall is still on trial stage. How to win through the hardship, it is what the supervisor and storekeepers need to rack their brains.
It is known that 90% of the 160 stores are rent out. On trial stage, the shopping malls rent the stores to merchants with various favorite conditions, such as free rent, tax, but the merchant must pay six months' rent beginning from January next year.
A glove store complained to the reporter yesterday that he can only rely on the old customers to keep the store going due to lack of new clients. Mr. Shen, a foreigner here, repines at the painstaking struggle to survive. But Miss Lin is optimistic about the future of hardware market. She says," it will be a long time to run the business successfully. We must be patient."
Zhao Jieqing, manager of the shopping mall, says that the retail can't drive the development of the wholesale market in a short time and they need coordinate with the shopkeepers to get through the hardship as soon as possible. He also expresses his will to help those who want to dispose of their stores.
