SLC31-W1: Shop & Share Challenge - Visit a Small Local Shop.

Welcome to my blog. I am glad to be a part of shop and share challenge.

Shopping is a part of our daily living, at one point or the other, we always have need to buy one thing or another from small local shops around us and some other times from bigger stores.

Tell us why you chose that shop

	The local shop I went to

Today I had need to buy knives from a local store around me. I had been wanting to purchase two knives that I wanted to use for content creation so I had to stroll on this evening to a local store around me that sells kitchen utensils.

When went to buy the knives, I saw one or two other shops around that sells kitchen utensils, but for the purpose of this contest, I had to look out for the one in which I could be able to get the pictures required.

	The knives I selected from

Some persons are not comfortable with you taking pictures even when you request their permission. I needed the shop that would afford me the opportunity I need and also the ones that would really have what I needed.

This shop is located beside my place at No 1 Akinwale street bariga Lagos state. It’s in a strategic position and one that can be easily located.

Here I have captured some pictures of the inside and outside of the shop alongside with a selfie of me in front of the shop.

	selfie in front of the shop

	inside of the shop

	some of the sold items

	some of the sold items

The price of the item you purchased from the shop.

The item I purchased was two knives. I had a specific color of knife that I wanted to buy. I wanted a red headed and also a black headed knives. I also wanted the ones with a strong blade that won’t easily bend on usage or have the nuts loose quickly like some usually do.

	the knives I bought

	my buying evidence

	knives wrapped

I bought the knives for one thousand Naira each making it a total of two thousand Naira for the two of them. Because the shop is a local street shop, they do not give receipts to show proof of payment but I snapped the money I gave to the woman before paying her as a proof of the payment I made for the knives.

Your shopping experience

I saw one or two to her shops like I said before I came to this particular shop. The knives I actually bought didn’t have the exact specifications I had in mind. When I got talking with the woman initially she wasn’t really that friendly in attending to me.

It seemed like someone pissed her off. She didn’t really give me that good customer vibe. So I left her shop to see if I will really see what I wanted but the other shops didn’t have it too and what they had was way higher in price than what I wanted so I had no choice than to go back to the first shop.

On going back she was still acting indifferent and when I asked her to give me some discount, she refused and said it was the last price. I had no choice than to buy it like that. Despite her non challant attitude. She didn’t have issues with me taking pictures as I shopped with her. I guess she wasn’t just in a good mood.

What do you think the shop or store owner needs to do to expand his or her business and tell us if the business is lagging in patronage.

The shop I bought the knives from is a small one but the goods were arranged in an orderly manner and the layout was nice, the type that would actually attract people to buy.

The shop doesn’t really lack patronage cos before I came, she had some people buying things from her too and anytime I pass, I always see people buy from her.

I think that she would need to do better at her customer service because if I had other options that had exactly what I needed, having considered how she treated me, I would not have bought from her. I couldn’t get a video because of her attitude.

I think she really needs to expand her business through more funding obviously so as to be able to get more varieties of the goods she’s selling. She didn’t have the spec of the knives I wanted and because of that I had to settle for what’s available as against what’s really desirable.

Items	Details
Shop Adress	1 Akinwale Street, off Abule Okuta Road, Bariga/Somolu, Lagos, Nigeria
Steem atlas pin	[//]:# (!steematlas 6.5384 lat 3.3881 long 1 Akinwale Street, off Abule Okuta Road, Bariga/Somolu, Lagos, Nigeria)
Goggle map pin	Map
Goggle plus code	GQPH+9R Bariga, Lagos, Nigeria

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