Do I look the least bit irritated? Of course not! Just someone unethical changing his course of business, so why would I get angry over it?
Well, if that person is changing from chicken rice business to a drinks business, I think I have the right to be irritated, huh.
To make matters worse, that ** is selling drinks beside my mom's stall, heh, nothing much [[ UH ]]...
Initially I wasn't so pissed when I thought he was just selling some tao huay zui. I just folded my arms, lifted a brow and glared at his stall, counting down his doomsday. I couldn't think of a more moronic person, fancy using TWO stalls to sell TAO HUAY ZUI. It's like, what, he seriously thinks that his tao huay zui has gold in it or that it can cure cancer and Aids?
Okay, misunderstanding cleared. He wasn't just going to sell his damned tao huay zui. He was going all out, selling tao huay zui, canned drinks and some sort of tao huay zui + durian / peach / apple flavor kind of thing.
Let's see when he'll end his business.
Since his target audience is obviously the kids, I was thinking of strategies to undermine him. His market is primarily the primary school kids and some of the secondary school kids nearby. So I was thinking of price discrimination --- Canned drinks having student price.
Then I thought, it's kinda retarded. Fancy a student price for CANNED DRINKS?
No creativity.
And the thing is, he too sells canned drinks and it's just such a coincidence that his stalls are bigger than our stall. Effect? If we do the student price thing, he may just follow suit and he can offer at an even cheaper price than ours as he can order in bigger bulks and enjoy larger economies of scale. Indirect result? We lose.
That Jack-ass.
Then I thought of Bubble tea. The idea is just crap. Why? That no creativity ** will just follow suit. And since he's selling some fanciful bean curd water with disgusting sweetened fruity flavors that vows to make you flabby, the effect of him adopting our bubble tea idea will just make us sink faster, that's all.
It's some dumb Oligopoly market thing in here, where firms are dependent on each other (it's either him or us saying goodbye because there's a freaking 3 stalls selling DRINKS in one section of a hawker center. Just how BAD can it be? Not too bad, because I'll be praying for him everyday, hoping that he'll be able to retire and enjoy life faster.)
Then I thought of ice cream coke. Woah, this idea is just ingenious. By far, I haven't seen any drinks stall doing it. And upon deeper thoughts, I finally knew why. None of us had the space to accommodate another freezer.
Darn.
So goodbye ideas, and hello praying.
If I were my mom, I'll be giving him my best glares that'll kill him instantaneously and I'll get the worse kids to sit in front of his stalls and make a mess. After that I'll dirty his tables and chairs and stalls every few days! Then I'll steal his cups!!!
HMPH.
Lesson learnt: if heaven dictates that you sell chicken rice, just keep your hands to yourself and sell your sickening-and-godly-expensive chicken rice. Don't cross the imaginary borders and sell some semi standards weird drinks, happily thinking that drinks are so much easier to make profits! Like HELLO haven't you learn Economics enough to even know that there's a MONOPOLY going on here?! You share market demand with us, we'll kick you even in our dreams.
