On the day we moved into this unit Marilyn and I went to a local cafe for dinner. It's called Stickybeaks and is right on the main junction in the town. I've written about it before; about the laminex tables and old-fashioned menu. However, there were a couple of women at another table and one spoke up to ask whether we were newbies to the town. When she heard we had just bought a unit, she was keen to tell us about her business: a shop in the town which sells women's clothes. The woman with her, in fact, was her buyer from Melbourne, where she sources all her clothes.
We found the shop, in our tiny little shopping centre, right beside the checkout of the supermarket. It's called Wisteria Lane. Marilyn loves the shop and is always browsing to see what's new. She wondered why it was called Wisteria Lane so I googled it. Wisteria Lane, it turns out, is where all the characters in the TV show Desperate Housewives live.
I've worked out the business plan of the dress shop. Situate it as close as possible to where most of the desperate housewives in Longford are expected to be at least once a week - the supermarket. Fill the windows with exotic fashions from overseas (Melbourne) and have good window displays and racks of specials out the front. Only buy a small number of each style so it's unlikely a buyer would see the same dress on a neighbour. It's a winning formula, I think. Marilyn has bought quite a bit there and is always delighted.
But I'll stick to Temu.
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