China News Service, June 8 (Xinhua), according to the US "World Daily" report, a Chinese-owned trendy store "JWong Boutique" in Manhattan, New York, was recently smashed. Chinese-born business owner Jay Wong said that he was from a room in Queens. Started business in the basement, and finally moved the store to Midtown Manhattan, but now more than 200 fashionable clothes and 100 pairs of sneakers have been evacuated; not only that, there are also hundreds of products in the Wang Yusen store, which he must repay , A loss of at least US$100,000.
Wang Yusen said that on May 31, when he learned that the Soho district of Xiacheng was smashed, he began to be particularly worried about the situation in the store. When he came to the store at 11:00 on the 1st to pick up the parcel, he found that the door window to the first floor of the store was broken, and the rest The posters of the merchants have been torn to the ground, and the situation is not good.
Wang Yusen’s store is located on the second floor of a building on Jiao Ba Avenue in West 29th Street. The signboard is hung outside the second floor. Unexpectedly, he has not escaped the fate of being looted.
Through surveillance video, it was found that around 4:30 a.m. on the 1st, two people wandered nearby and pointed at their signboards; after half an hour, five more people came. These seven people began to find ways to enter the building, while their own The store is a glass door, originally intended to attract customers to see the goods in the store, but it has become a stepping stone for robbers.
These people smashed the glass and entered the store, pouring all the pairs of sneakers into large woven bags. The shoe box was everywhere. In addition to more than 100 pairs of sneakers, there were 200 tide-brand or cooperative T-shirts and excluding Numerous accessories and toys were looted.
Wang Yusen said that not only his own products but also second-hand products sold by customers were sold, some were out-of-print or limited-edition cooperative products. The products of about 400 customers were sold in the store at the same time, and some shoes were only left. One.
"The full compensation is small, but the loss of reputation is big, and customers will blame why I did not take care of the store." He said that these lost or damaged is the memory of a generation of love for sneaker culture, which can never be recovered. It is even more difficult to measure with money.
Wang Yusen was born in the United States. Before moving his store to Manhattan, he started from scratch in a basement in Queens; "I saved all the financial assistance of the university. I accumulated nearly 300 pairs of shoes from thrift stores, and some The collection, eight years of sweat, tears, and debt repayment, spent countless hours lining up when the new product was released." He said. At the same time, he worked part-time for two jobs to realize his passion and dream for sneakers, but the small world he built and operated by himself disappeared in just 30 minutes. (Zhang Chen)