Confessions of a clothing factory owner: I worked very hard to catch up on goods, and finally watched the landlord pay off the mortgage.
Perhaps this is the reason. All the money earned from hard work all year round goes into the hands of capitalists and landlords, so it is no wonder that ordinary working people are always working hard but are unable to make ends meet. Still in the current situation of having no money.
Every boss has his own “difficulties” when it comes to money in the industry
It is said that capital is constantly circulating in an industrial chain. Some people who can enter this cycle can gain wealth, but most people are isolated from this cycle, so it is said that capital is constantly circulating in an industry chain. There will be a vicious circle in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Take this clothing store owner as an example. He is actually a person wandering on the edge of this cycle. He may or may never enter, because the current As society changes, shopping models and business models should also change, so if the traditional business model is still maintained at this time, it will inevitably be abandoned.
Besides, garment factories belong to the traditional manufacturing industry, and manufacturing generally focuses on the real economy, so in this era of e-commerce explosion, The shortcomings of the real economy are clearly exposed. First of all, sales channels have been hit hard. The emergence of e-commerce has made the real economy rely on offline stores to sell goods at the lowest end of the food chain, and may be swallowed up at any time.
In addition to the changes in sales models, price wars have also become a major drawback of the real economy. The reason why e-commerce is so popular is that, in addition to being convenient and fast, the price is lower than that of physical stores. The fact that the store is much cheaper is also an important reason.
This is also one of the reasons why physical stores cannot beat e-commerce. The establishment of offline stores in physical stores requires a lot of investment, so where does the money come from?
Consumers will ultimately pay for the wool produced on the sheep, so this determines that the items in the store must be controlled within a certain price range, otherwise It is difficult to support the operation of the enterprise.
On the other hand, e-commerce is different. Nowadays, the popularity of the Internet is very high, and it is definitely cheaper to open a store using the Internet than offline stores. After all, the rent is a big part of it. It has been solved, so the investment of e-commerce is very small, but the return is huge, so even if there is a price war, e-commerce still makes money.
So many clothing factory owners also saw this and tried the e-commerce model one after another, but most of them failed, so many clothing factories in order to welcome e-commerce The products produced due to the surge in sales form a product pile.
The warehouse is full of well-produced products, but there is no market and they can only be piled here. However, space is needed to store these goods, and the space needs to be rented, and the rent requires payment. Now, the goods have not been sold and they have to pay to find a place to store them. This makes the owners of various clothing factories anxious.
According to a garment factory owner, the current situation in physical factories is that the small bosses are worried, the middle bosses are supportive, and the big bosses are gritting their teeth and persisting.
The expenditure on fixed expenses is overwhelming
As the owner of a physical factory, every day The first thing that comes to mind after getting up is the rent, water and electricity bills, labor costs, etc. These bosses are overwhelmed by the expenses of these items. If there is any slight disturbance in their finances, they will panic for a long time, so for the hard work In order to continue to operate the factories that were built with great pains, these bosses had to go out to “find money.”
To put it bluntly, looking for money means going out to talk business, building relationships everywhere to sell products, and catering to the bosses of large companies. This is what they really embody here. A joke.
The boss of a small clothing factory will become very passive after coming to ask for money. After all, there are so many small workshops now, and everyone needs to go out to find money, so which one can Giving the most favorable or most attractive conditions to the big boss has become their greatest advantage.
But the advantage everyone wants is money! After all, doing business is an exchange of capital, so whoever controls the capital has the initiative. In order to win the favor of the big boss, the small bosses have to lower their prices, which makes the small bosses who already have meager profits even worse. But if you don’t do this, there will be no income at all.
Although the order was finally obtained, problems arose again when facing the production process. The inability to recruit workers became a new round of tests.
People nowadays no longer think about problems as they used to. In the past, many people were proud to work in a factory. After all, the job was stable and the environment was comfortable, but today’s young people obviously no longer They are willing to work in the factory, so most of the workers in the factory are middle-aged people. Sometimes old employees who have worked in the factory for a long time will leave their jobs.
On the one hand, old employees are leaving one after another, and on the other hand, there is a dilemma of being unable to recruit new employees, so the bosses of the garment factory are struggling to find employees.
Even these things can be solved well, the goods have been produced and sold, and the money has arrived. At this time, wages are paid and rent is paid.
The salary should be paid as a matter of course, and the rent should also be paid as a matter of course. But after paying these, if you look at your pocket, you will find that you have no money all year round. I worked hard to find money, run business and build relationships, but in the end I didn’t make any money.
But my landlord relied on the rent I paid every year to pay off the mortgage. In other words, isn’t this because I worked hard to the end to help the landlord pay off the debt? In fact, this phenomenon doesn’t just happen to clothing store owners, it happens to all walks of life.
Especially in first-tier cities, young people with dreams are pouring into the city, looking for a small house, and working from 9 to 6 every day may also be “for The landlord pays the mortgage.”
As a result, I had worked hard in a big city for more than ten years without making much money, but I helped the landlord pay off the money. When I felt like going home, I realized that no matter whether I was in a big city or I can’t afford to buy a house in a small county, but I am still so poor.
But even if this is the reality, there are still many people persisting, the bosses of clothing factories are still running around looking for money, and the first-tier cities are still attracting Small-town youth from various places.
Why does everyone know that they are “paying the mortgage for the landlord” or do they choose to accept it? That’s because these people still have dreams in their hearts, so they are still unwilling to give up easily until the last moment. They still want to stick to it for a while. After all, after the “darkness before dawn” is over, they can welcome the beautiful sunny day. . </p
