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Let me say the place was crowded, very crowded. But what are people looking for and what are they buying? the crowd is 90% ladies, young and old. All looking for food. If you have food to sell that would be the place. As expected: accessories and clothe designers are the major sellers. Another note, my booth sucked and the colors came out all wrong, blue instead of xbox green.

One weird concept was a triangle restaurant, that sold everything in a triangle package, made no sense to me. If they were trying to save space with this genius concept i would understand, which i dont think so. Ask your self a question, why are milk packaged in rectangle cartoons and soda’s in cylindrical cans? you see with milk that expires fast storage is a main concern so wasting space cost money, but soda’s have long shelf lifes so no problems with storage. So now where does a triangle fall here?

As for my booth, i think yet to be analysed, let me say my first day is bad.

Remember these store with a prime location should be taken by large companies or franchises not someone selling again cupcakes. Look at the store next to it, Eastpack dealership. Major firms can handle such cost because they need to be in your face and in prime locations like Salem Mubarak Street. Every one passing by Salem Mubarak Street knows that Kwik Kopy is there, location plays a big role. Its located exactly opposite Ahli Bank and Bu-Suwaileh Restaurant.

Things you dont know; the machines in these copy centers are expensive, but these stores dont own them. They work an agreement with the store that if 20fils is charged to photo copy a paper, 5 fils goes to the Xerox company and the rest 15 fils goes to the store. Such a policy makes these stores afford the photo copy machines and the Xerox company moves its inventory of photo copy machines. These machines are fitted with counters and from time to time an agent comes from Xerox and take their share from the profits. These store have a multiple channels of profit like: designing, printing business cards and letter heads, parcel service, binding and other stationary sales. So setting up a copy center is not that capital intensive (mo ghali ya3ny:P) .

The stores there are small, and rent is about 400 to 600KD. Call the number 94095820 Abu yousef to get more info.

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So you can see after reading the above it may work with 1 and 2, but do we as Kuwaities would like to have a mall as a land mark, before you start the Harrods (UK) land mark thing let me explain; we as Kuwaities naming a mall as a land mark just proves our ignorance that we are consumer based citizens, we live to buy. The provoking issue that pisses me off is that how unethical, uneducated we are in purchasing whatever we desire before giving it a second thought. Nike and sonia rykiel for instance had sweat shops that paid 13 year old kids 60 cents to create a 45 kd garment! we as Kuwaities are promoting such action or maybe not for Nike or sonia rykiel anymore but others brands that are capitalizing on our ignorance. The other thing is when some claim that a mall such as the avenues is an economical benefit is quite wrong, the franchiser are getting a monthly 6 to 8% out of sales going to the original owners and when we spend money on such non Kuwaiti business our Kuwaiti dinar is leaving the economic cycle and creating a leak that is growing each year that leads to a weaker KD. Again i’m not against international businesses but to define the avenue shopping mall as a land mark that has no history or benefit to the Kuwaiti society then i guess that is ridiculous. Let me know what you think and if you  do consider it as a land mark, why?