BERHALA ISLAND
EPISODE 156: LACK OF CAPITAL
Podin felt sorry to see his wife who had been struggling to take care of his business in Jakarta, and now had to take care of his grocery store business in Parung. When asked by his wife to open a grocery store in Parung, it was actually Podin who could only see how the store was going smoothly, Podin, who can only watch two people helping his wife serve the buyers, only Podin can see his wife is busy taking care of his shop, Podin can only say that it is his shop. Knowing that, watching his wife who was bothered, and of course also tiredness, Podin certainly felt that he had to be responsible, while his wife was alone no one to help him. Especially at this time, to fill the merchandise in the store, of course his wife must think hard so that the merchandise can be quickly turned around, can be used again for shopping, for example, and can meet the goods needed by the community, meet the goods that are always asked by the buyers who enter the store, but the fact that the goods are not in the store.
"Pah .., our trade is still a lot less .... There is still a lot of merchandise asked by customers, but we do not have. Well, we can't shop yet. It turns out that trading is not easy .... Selling business it turns out need extra thought. At least to hold this much stuff, we have to really rack our brains, sell the best-selling stuff, then buy the stuff again. It turns out that trading is not just buying and selling. We must also think of the fastest selling goods must be stoked a lot, and items that do not yet exist but are always asked by buyers must also be held immediately." so said Cik Melan to her husband, which of course he also gives an idea of how difficult it is to open a store business, how difficult people sell.
However, in reality, Ms. Melan never complained about finances. Ms. Melan has never demanded about items that do not yet exist. Ms. Melan never forced her husband to raise capital. All that actually, Ms. Melan wants to teach her husband business, so that his mind is not dumb. Understandably, all this time what was feared by Ms. Melan was that If Podin did not have a store or business activity, her husband was silent at home, surely the village women would be a lot of tempting.
"Yes .., Mah .... I understand .... Be patient, Mah .... There must be a way to fulfill our trade." Podin entertained and encouraged his wife.
"Rubber, Pah .... We need not hurry. What is important is that our business continues .... Stores like this alone are quite large, there are already items from suppliers that are only left behind, we have not paid. He said he'd pay him tomorrow if those things were sold. It is quite possible to meet the store" said his wife who of course also told Podin that in the store there are items sent by the supplier but not yet paid. Indeed, many suppliers who put the goods to the store, while the payment is usually if the goods have been sold. It is also a marketing tactic.
It seems opening a shop is easy. Opening a store business is easy, just make space and fill the room with goods. But actually trading business is not that easy. People who open a trading business should be able to think about how to expand their business, should know what goods are always needed by buyers, what goods can produce large profits, and what goods can produce large profits, what goods are not in the store, and what goods must be fulfilled immediately, and many more problems faced as a trade entrepreneur.
Maybe Ms. Melan is just comparing, when managing finances in a karaoke entertainment building, where only one job is done, which is waiting for people to come will karaoke, he said, attract people to karaoke in his place, lure people to enter his entertainment place, then the people who come and karaoke in his place of business will just pay. Then the money is managed to pay employees, and the rest is a profit that can be used to develop the business.
But when Ms. Melan opened a grocery store, the problem was the goods that were sold, the goods that people needed, the goods that did not exist, the goods that people always sought, the goods that people always sought, as well as how to set the best profit possible so that the price can be maintained cheaper than other stores, but can bring in for a bigger one. Of course this is a new thing for Ms. Melan, which of course she must learn again to open a trading business. Not only that, Ms. Melan also needs people who can help serve in her store, at least that person can be trusted, honest and able to work well. At least they understand the prices of goods, they understand about trade calculations, so as not to be less in calculating prices and not to be mistaken in giving change to buyers. And they also have to understand about the money that goes out and into the cash register. And one more thing that must be mastered is that the person is able to book his finances.
If the problem of calculating finances, Ms. Melan can still overcome. You can even teach people who help serve in their stores. But one of the most difficult things to organize employees is to build the character of people who help in their stores. The hardest thing to do is to choose a good person, an honest person and a responsible one.
Podin has helped a lot in his shop. At least Podin was involved in handling his business. Podin helps organize goods, helps check goods, and even helps serve buyers. And Podin certainly wants to learn a lot about how people try, people sell, people trade. Podin went with his wife to sell at her new shop. At least, if his wife goes to Jakarta, if his wife has to take care of finances in his existing business place Jakarta, Podin can help in his shop.
In addition, although there are also waiters in the store, there are already two workers, young men and women, who help sales in the store Podin, Podin, it helps to serve the buyers. Indeed, Ms. Melan who is persistent in the business, has been able to train two employees, one person working on the inside, and the other person, who is male, who is, it's on the outside. It has even been trained to deliver goods to its customers. Little by little, surely the two employees will understand the work. And over time, the people around the store were on a shopping spree to the new Pinin grocery store.
Ms. Melan has trained her husband this time, training him to handle finances. Podin was told to be the cashier. At least the receipt of payment money has been made and handled by Podin. And certainly, it was taught by Ms. Melan to her husband, so that at any time when Ms. Melan left, when Ms. Melan left the store, then Podin could already manage the finances in his shop. At the very least, the shop always had an owner. If there's no Ms. Melan, Podin should be in that shop every day. Podin every day must help serve the buyers in his shop. Podin also had to serve people who were looking for goods, buying household needs at his grocery store.
Is this really the beginning of a change in Podin's life?
But of course, Podin was confused when he saw his servants, two people who helped serve the buyers, when there were buyers who asked for the goods needed, but in reality in the stall, he said, in that shop that was Podin's, the item he was looking for didn't exist. And the two servants, one male in front and the other female in the inside, always ask Podin who sat facing the cashier box with money, who always sat at the cashier's place while his wife was in Jakarta.
"Pak Podin ..., is there this stuff?"
"Sir, someone's looking like this ...."
"Sir Podin, there's a buyer looking for stuff."
"Sir, this stuff doesn't exist, does it ...?"
"Sir Podin, we don't have this yet ...."
So were the words that often came out of the two servants. And Podin is always confused when it comes to answering the questions of buyers, while the goods sought by the buyers do not exist. Of course, Podin felt sorry for the buyers who returned empty-handed, not bringing the results of the goods he was looking for. Likewise with the waiters in his shop, who were always confused to answer to the buyers. What is the reason when the buyers do not get the results of the goods he will buy? And of course the servants were also uncomfortable when they had to answer the goods were not there.
That's what causes Podin to think how so that the goods that do not exist can be fulfilled? That's what causes Podin to try, how to meet the needs of the people who are always asked? How do I meet the merchandise in the store? How can the servants always find the goods asked by the buyers?
And of course, Podin wants his shop to be the most complete store in his city, with a stock of all kinds of goods needed by the community. For this reason, Podin must think about how to get additional capital back, how can he add money to his wife to shop in order to meet all the merchandise in his store.