My Town with traditional retail- Shopping for household needs at Mr Caleb store
A very warm greetings to all steemians in Steem Entrepreneurs community.
It's my pleasure dropping my entry on this very nice, organised contest with the title My town with traditional retail which happens to be my first ever post in this community. Hope I'm welcomed.
Introduction: About Traditional retail in my town
Outside view of the local retail shop
The contest organiser sir @f2i5 did quite an amazing job by explaining all about what traditional retail is all about, as well as how much the community valued it in many ways even now that contemporary stores are trying to take over .
However, this hasn't been a different case in my area. The emergence of contemporary stores, they compete favorably with our traditional retails even so, they're still good and enough reasons why some folks like me still shop at traditional stores .
In this post, I will take you on a tour of me carrying out some transactions at different traditional retails with much enthusiasm.
Shopping at Mr. Caleb Shop
According to Mr Caleb, he's been operating this shop for over five (5) years now and has been doing well with his business. I got to discover Mr Caleb's shop since last year around this time when I moved to this area here in Bonny Island of Rivers State Nigeria, Western Africa.
His shop is located at No. 18 Bonny Island hotel-Akwanta Hotel/Guesthouse What3words
Mr Caleb sales a lot of goods that are of high quality at affordable price compare to modern stores in the area.
I've been buying more from him more often than any other retail shop in this area because I've been enjoying his services.
On this day, I went and bought some things as usual. Below in a tabular form are the things I bought with prices .
Collage Pic of the items I bought
| Item | Quantity | Price In IDR | Price in Steem |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rice | 1 custard cup | 104,176.57 IDR | 28.58 Steem |
| Ground-oil | ½ bottle | 17,375.19 IDR | 4.76 Steem |
| Dog noodles | 1 Bag | 521,273.09 IDR | 142.86 Steem |
| Soft drink | 2 Bottle | 6,953.11 IDR | 1.91 Steem |
| African Pear | 5 Seeds | 3,476.55 IDR | 0.8 Steem |
| Bread | 1 loaf | 3,476.55 IDR | 0.8 Steem |
Grand Total
| Total In IDR | Total in Steem |
|---|---|
| 656,731.06 IDR | 179.91 Steem |
- Please Note:
The above currency conversion is in Nigerian Naira (₦) (my local currency) To Indonesian Rupiah. This is just in line with the contest rules. Thanks
My reasons for shopping here and my advice to people
Like I've earlier said, Mr Caleb retail shop even though small yet he sales quality products at an affordable price, this is one of many great benefits I derive from shopping at his place.
As if that's not enough, Mr Caleb and I trust each other so well, he is very understandable to the extent that I buy from him on credit I mean, even when I don't have money at present I approach him and explain to him and he understands and give me whatever I need, pending when I get the money.
As of the time of writing this post I'm owing him some money over the things I bought from him a while ago, but I'm hoping to pay him as soon as possible. Before I forget to mention this very important one also, he accepts refunds. There are some things that after buying and taking it to my place and when discovered they aren't my choice again at that moment, I take it back to him and he accepts and refund my money. This only happens to sealed products and not eatables though.
My word of advice to other users is to support traditional retails. The trust they has for people is far better compare to modern retails.
Thank you all.
Thank you so much