[quote=âIconâ]âŚwhich was my thinking, you know, the Starbucks effect.
With all the new developments in these areas, huge towers coming up everyday, you have a lot of potential customers to be grabbed. These are people of some means, with exposure to foreign food.
âWesternâ or at least westernized food is attractive to this segment of the population. Furthermore, there is enough of a foreign customer base, with many entire families living in the area. If you got kids, not straying too far from home may sound like a plan.
You know? I bet I can set up a little Western grocery store like Wellmanâs. it may not make me rich, but it will not fail, either.[/quote]
Who says, with a load of debt on the CC and mortgage ⌠and since when are people with some means in Taiwan more exposed to western food âŚ
Right, westernized crap, thatâs what they like to eat ⌠something thatâs more to the local pallet is not western anymore.
Donât think so, do you think that having maybe 50 families live in an area as huge as Xindian you can keep a place running âŚ
Have you ever had a look at the exposure dates on products at Wellmanâs ⌠if youâre very strict for yourself and want to do business by the rules, you have to throw away a lot of products and youâll be broke in no time ⌠no one knows how to use western products in their daily kitchen here ⌠itâs like these guys from Australia/Taiwan long time ago, they started importing frozen pies into Taiwan but didnât do market research on how many families actually owned an oven to prepare them ⌠out of business in no time âŚ
In my opinion Taiwanese are very tradition stuck people ⌠perhaps they like to try something when itâs new and trendy but very soon they go back to their used to local food âŚ
The Starbucks effect âŚopening a zillion stores and then closing the bunch that donât make the cut ⌠thatâs happening everyday in Taiwan ⌠Iâve lost count on how many stores/pubs/eateries have been opened and closed in a 200 meter circle around my home since I moved here, thatâs about 6 years I live in the same area ⌠and the last 3 years it has been even worse âŚ