Learning the industry strategy

Always try to understand more about the retail culture in this country, is it all based on a discount? To me, it looks like that. And it has a similar effect to the current industry I am working with. 

A co-worker is showing me the incentive system in the organization. I was wondering why it caused so much attention to this company. With over 100 store clients, per each product they sell, the company then subsidy various incentives to the store. By doing this way, the store is able to attract the retail customer by giving a store discount or cash rebate. 

Ah, no wonder, there are very few people purchase the original pricing goods usually. As I see, during the discount seasons, such as Black Friday Sale, Boxing Day Sale, etc., people like me will drive early to the malls and shop everything for the whole year. 

I think the longer we stay here, the more we convinced ourselves that it works well this way. 

Our Tulip Diary

At first, the front yard was very bare, only green grass. When the weather turns in very hot, the purple Irish will blossom. But the yard still looks pale in the entire spring. 

So we decided to plan something, began with a small Japanese maple, then another. We love those tree peonies that friends plan in their backyard, we made our own in the front yard. From one branch to two, now we have four. 

To enrich the color and species, we plan a lot of tulips. Some of them are collected from small pot sales from grocery stores. Some special color and types, are actually from the Botanic Garden in Burlington. 

Every spring, the park organizer will dig out some retired tulip bowls and sell at a very low price to the public. These tulips have been taken care of and some of them even from the Netherlands. 

While keep collecting this and that, we just realize that our small front yard is turning into a good shape and give us an amazing look. 

Taste of Spring

We are not telling you how we think about the beautiful flowers, how we breathe the fresh air from the mountain. 

There are many things happen since spring, and it will continue in such away. This is absolutely new to us, are we ready? I do even bother to ask this question. A friend told me: Keep thinking, problems continuing, keep doing instead, there are answers. 

We met this piece of land and we love it. We set up a joint corporation with friends and placed a purchase offer. It is 160 acres in size, with forest, lakes, and streams inside. This opens a new chapter in our life.

We will set up the shareholder agreement soon with the help of our lawyer. We will set up the journals for the finance, we record every step that we made, we are learning from the beginning.

Let's celebrate!