Tag: flowers
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Two strategies to stand out: specialization and spectacular service
Why we love flowers Things are “just things” – plain physical objects that clutter our material world. However, humans are obsessed with attaching deeper meaning to objects, and corporate powers often manipulate us into believing these stories of significance. For instance, De Beers released a viral marketing slogan “Diamonds are forever” to persuade us that…
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Dry Season
Ah Xin began working in the provision shop as a sprightly 10-year-old, enthusiastically helping her parents. Fast forward fifty years, and her vibrant spirit still shines through as she stocks her cozy little store with an array of dried and preserved goods: dried red chilli, dried fish, dried mushrooms, dried chrysanthemum flowers, dried tofu… you get…
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Come along for the journey!
Shopkeeper Stories is all about people who bring their creative energy to our cities with their small businesses! Join us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter (@ShopkeeperStory) – wherever you might be – so that you can see the latest photoshoots as they happen, and we’ll let you know when we’re in your city! Be dazzled, learn something new, and…
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If you’re going to San Francisco…
“…. be sure to wear some flowers in your hair!” We communicated using fragments of Mandarin that I know consisting mostly of 3 introductory sentences: “How are you?” (Ni hao!) “I speak a little!” (We hui shuo yidian dian) “I am a Singapore person.” (Wo shi xinjiapo ren) And then, in response to…
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Budding Business
About 40 years ago as a teenage girl, Madam Soo started helping her mother collect flowers for a living. She recalls the back-breaking labour spent picking jasmine buds from morning till night, because they had to be plucked before they would blossom. When the government bought their garden in Lim Chu Kang to turn into an…
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