Thursday, July 26, 2007
M1 Shop
Superman and I went to meet the sole distributer of Favourite-Castle. Familiar rite. Trigger any childhood memories on drawing with colour pencils and crayons? Favourite-Castle sells colour pencils and crayons! The security guard working at the building cannot make it. When I drove into the building, I thought that if I told him that Superman was right behind me and was going to park his car together with mine, he would let him in faster. God knows he said that he could only allow one car in the building! If I had known better, I would have kept my mouth shut and pretend that I didn't know Superman. Superman was stranded outside the building with his car. He had to park his car in the building beside the one we were going. Sad case. Dun know what the security guard feed his brains with. We then met Gary. Gary is the guy who talk to us about distributing their products. Busy man. 15 minutes was all he gave to us. We got our intentions across. Job done. I am impressed by the emphasis Gary placed on the high quality of the products. You can say for sure that the prices of his products are 'high quality' too. That gives me an idea that we can charge our products above market rate, provided we can deliver high quality products and good services to our customers. I then went to source for more suppliers. Went to a shop named Miracon. Dealer of adhesives. I was looking for an adhesive named Araldite. God knows he only sells 'pirated' adhesives. Araldite became Bondite. Loctite became Holdtite. Damn joker. I was speechless. However, I managed to convince him to give me a sample of Bondite. I got it juz to show Superman and make him laugh. 'Pirated' adhesives. Imagine that. Next stop: M1 shop! My internet connection sucks big time. Dun know why. I had been trying really hard to get it good and done with. I met up with the sales person. Took damn long to fix it up. I went to MOS Burger and tried its newest burger. Not too bad, but the serving was a bit small. The price was a bit high end leh. But it gave me an idea. Why are people willing to spend a few dollars more to buy MOS burgers? Other than stupidity (excluding me =p), I guess it may be due to branding, and the quality they deliver. MOS burgers are specially wrapped in a neat special paper which looks clean and feels good to hold. Even their straws wear clothes (though we strip them ultimately). For these extra effort, they deserve a round of applause! It seems to me once again that quality products and good services are keys to unlock consumers wallet. I bought a cup of peach tea for Weeping Mann (she called me, got to know that I'm in MOS Burger and conveniently asked me to buy it for her) and went back to M1 shop. Almost done. The sales person was friendly and enthusiastic. Diminishes any grudges I previously had for M1. I felt 'lead' to give him the peach tea that I bought for Weeping Mann. He was very surprised and thanked me profusedly. I rushed off to get another one. I felt real good about it. It's like I have done a great deed. It's like what the Bible talks about being 'a cheerful giver' =).
Posted by Benjamin at 12:44 AM