Chinanews.com, February 8th. According to the US "World Journal" report, due to the impact of the epidemic, it is difficult for businesses to restart. Some Chinese businessmen in Los Angeles have taken a new path and combined the most Asian-style street stall economy with the most popular online sales in recent years. The effect is gratifying. .
The Lunar New Year Flower Market at Fu Lu Shou Square in Little Saigon, Orange County, attracts a surging crowd of people through the flower market and food market every Chinese New Year.
Due to the epidemic this year, since the beginning of the lunar new year, the flower market is not as popular as in previous years.
But this year, many Chinese merchants came to set up stalls.
A founder of Fu Lu Shou said that there are 258 shops in the entire plaza. Before the epidemic, business was done in the shops, but now outdoor operations are also very popular, especially during the Chinese New Year.
Many Chinese merchants entered the New Year Flower Market in Little Saigon for the first time.
Mandy Zhou from Hong Kong, China, said that she came to "try it out" and she did not expect that the various anti-epidemic products she brought were very popular.
Eddie Lin, who is also from Hong Kong, said that he has been operating a seafood wholesale business in Los Angeles for many years, and the business has been good, but it has plummeted under the impact of the epidemic.
Now I come to Xiao Saigon to set up a stall, and his turnover in one week is more than that of his one month in the store.
A Chinese entrepreneur preparing to enter the market stall economy said that he encountered the new crown pneumonia epidemic just two years after opening a ginseng ginseng shop in San Gabriel, and it closed from March 2020 until October.
It reopened for a few months, and there were fewer than five guests in a day.
He plans to set up a stall after the lease expires in March of this year. "I believe things will be better without pressure from rent, minimum wage, utilities, insurance, etc.".
According to Liu Chengyu, a Chinese, setting up stalls is not under the pressure of renting various expenses. The epidemic has also changed the way people shop. More and more businesses are moving from indoors to outdoors, making the stall model come back.
At present, many Chinese businessmen around him have organized groups to conduct inspections in various places, preparing to switch to the local economy.
On weekends, they fight on the floor and usually sell products through the merchant's social media platforms, and run the business in a two-pronged way.
(Yang Qing)