35 Market life hacking (1/2)
In Asia, marching to the market is a whole science, the magic of everyday communication. Those who immediately agree to buy goods for the price mentioned by the merchant do not know the market and do not know how to bargain. So the old men say it with regret.
Old people like to go to the markets, even if they do not buy anything with great interest, asking about the prices of vegetables and fruits. Compare them with prices in shopping centers and supermarkets. We have practically no hypermarkets. Compare prices with shops in the city. Something laugh at his mustache ...
Usually, the price for small, rooted bazaars in the city center is 30-70 percent higher than wholesale markets. Whereas the price for retail large bazaars differs by 20-30 percent. Only farmer's vegetables are brought to large retail markets, and fruit is bought from wholesalers in another market.
On large grove bazaars, merchants immediately buy goods from farmers, reducing their price by 30 percent. For example, cabbage sold by farmers in cars costs 36 cents, merchants buying wholesale (50-100 pieces at a time) at a price of 25 cents. And sell right there, 100 meters from the farmers already for 59 cents. Profit 34 cents. And for the place (near the market), they give no more than $ 3, often they do not even have permission to trade, there is no certificate from the laboratory that the product has been tested. It remains to hope that farmers have it.
In the center of the city, in the small bazaars, the same cauliflower is already worth 71 cents for 1 piece, at the average bazaars there is 1 dollar 31 cents, at large retail bazaars the price may already be 1 dollar 78 cents. But such bazaars after reconstruction, specially made to attract tourists, immediately begin to lose their ”spirit of the oriental bazaar”. Since in order to recoup the cost of ”ethnic flavor” prices for places for merchants increase, and the purchasing power of the citizens is not great. Such large bazaars, usually almost empty, to the bazaar at 190 crowds, a total of 15-30 visitors in 1 hour. While going to a large retail market, where prices are two or even three times lower, people do not overcrowd, a sea of people, hundreds of people.
Coming to the market, knowledgeable people, it is completely bypassed twice. Everywhere find out the prices, the main thing here is not to forget where the price was good, to go back and buy. But sometimes the shops do not have numbers, it remains only to rely on their own memory.
The buyer asks the seller what price he says for example 1 kg of apples costs 65 cents, and the buyer knows that the seller bought these apples on the wholesale market (1 kg 30 cents for 1 box, in a box usually from 12 to 22 kg with small opt or 1 kg of 20 cents with the purchase of 10 boxes). So he says to the seller, what is your real price?
Trading says the price is 62 cents! Buyer - are you kidding? Give me the price at which you sell!
The merchant says, well I will give a price of 58 cents!
The buyer - no, it will not work that way, there through a row, the price is 40 cents, and you are chasing a blizzard (that is, you are talking nonsense).
The merchant says where? Which row?
Buyer - waving his hand indefinitely, there!
Merchant, well, I will sell you for 55 cents!
Buyer, no, that won't do!
And leaves!
The merchant screams in his back, the price is 50 cents, this is my last price!
The buyer comes back and says no, come on 40 cents!
Merchant, reluctantly, well, but then you will buy a 22 kg box from me!
Buyer, are you crazy! In the wholesale market, I can buy for 30 cents!
Merchant, says evil, go and buy there, nothing to waste my time!
The buyer leaves. But after a minute comes back, let's say sell for 42 cents and I'll buy you a couple of kilos!
Merchant, 15 kg!
Buyer, no buy only 3 kg!
Few!
Well, let it be 5 kg!