While at one of our favorite wholesale malls, I chuckled to myself as I looked down the 8 floors of the building full of vendors and wondered just how many of them are packed into one building. I estimated that each floor have about 125 vendors for a total of 1,000 vendors trying to sell their wares to the public.
What fascinating about these buildings are that they are catagorized by floor - one floor will have all jewelry vendors, one all kids, one floral accessories, one home decor, and so on. And although we have our Product Procurment Manager guiding us through, it wasn't real hard to want to go into each shop to see if something unique "catches" your eye! I mean, you could spend literally days in just this one buiding and not see everything if you did not know which vendors to go to and which one to stay away from.
I'm convinced that just like in the United States where we trade stories and opinons on which resturants are the best, the Chinese vendors spread the word amongst themselves as to which are the best, easiest to negotiate with and so on.
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