after that arduous task of posting pics, let's fast forward to the present. gotcha has been operational for a little over a week now. time sure does fly by fast!
we're doing okay, sales is slowly picking up but we're far from profit :( we're now trying to boost sales by adding items, coming up with specials for OGM (Oriental Gardens Makati) residents & soon, we hope to tap into the numerous offices in the area to offer Christmas packs or something like that. Our friend and marketing guru Marlet is going to help us explore this idea...
essentially, ricky and i wanted to offer more chinese products than the usual stuff but we found out that we can't subsist on just that. you've got to weigh things and compromise to strike a balanced product mix. but its difficult. we get mundane questions such as "may stockings kayo?". stockings being the term used for pantyhose. ;) at first, i was like "duh? us carry stockings?" after some thought, gotcha is after all a convenience store; convenience being a relative term. oh well... (hehehe then i remembered last sunday as ricky and i were buying goods for gotcha, he said, "magtinda kaya tayo ng stockings?")
it's going to take some time for us to really establish gotcha here in the vicinity of chino roces. but a store like ours does have its own place under the sun.
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