The old man in the picture is Xie Shiquan, 76 years old this year, living in the countryside of Sangyuan Town, Juxian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province. He and his wife made sandals by hand and sold them locally. He said: He has been making this thing for more than 50 years, there were many peers in the past, and now he is left with his own family, and now this small business has become an "exclusive business" in rural markets.
When he met the old man at the rally, he said: "Last year, I prepared materials that can be used for a year, but now I can't imagine that I have run out, and a few days ago I went to a foreign country to enter a batch of goods." This kind of sandals made of car waste tires, a pair of 18 yuan, a few years ago can sell more than 300 pairs of a year, did not expect that this year only took more than 20 days to exceed the annual production "target".
Speaking of how these tire sandals are so hot? He said: "This thing is not only durable, but also fair price, and has accumulated many old customers over the decades. The guy next to me posted a video of me making sandals on the Internet a month ago, it was even more popular, and he ordered one after another, and now he places orders for me every day, so that I can't be busy, and I feel a little anxious.
A few days ago, at the rural market in Sangyuan Town, Juxian County, a customer came to buy sandals. While trying it on, he said: "Old solution, why didn't you come to the last episode?" I waited for half a day without seeing him and left. "The last episode was out of stock, I didn't come, and I was at home in a hurry to complete the order for the appointment."
Uncle said: "I started doing this at the age of 25, when I was still doing this work in a collective social enterprise, and then after I divided the fields into households, I insisted on doing this craft outside of farming, and my two sons also learned to do it, and the best time for business was in the 90s, when many people wore my handmade tire sandals and felt very fashionable."
"In the past, there were twenty or thirty people making sandals in the set, and then there were more plastic slippers and plastic sandals, and this business was not good." In the past, those old men who made shoes slowly stopped drying, and I am still insisting on it alone. The old man said as he worked.
He said the sandals were also called "grass insoles" or "car leather ticks." Inexpensive, durable to wear, and now some elderly people in the countryside will still choose this sandal to wear. On the last rally day, someone bought 40 pairs of sandals at once.
Someone asked him, other people's business is not good, why are you so hot? He said that there is learning in doing business, and you must establish your own prestige. To treat customers as their own family, let people be trusted, Tong Sou is not deceived. In the case of ensuring quality, find a balance in profits, if you look at the money in your eyes, then the business will not work
Some people say that this kind of tire sandals are also very popular in many african countries, as well as military yellow rubber shoes in the past, which are popular goods. It is recommended that the elderly open a factory specializing in shoe products for waste car tires.
The old man said: I am also old, doing this is to relieve boredom, is a dry mile, can not eat idle meals, can do as much as you want, do your best, for my years of accumulation of old customers to provide good service on the line, I have this product in my lifetime forever free warranty. 【Watch the stories of the people, pay attention to the yellow mudba】