(ENG/ESP) When Competition Turns Toxic: The Case of the Possessive Shop Owner.

in Be Entrepreneur5 days ago


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Sometimes I find it so difficult to understand why some entrepreneur gets so jealous of themselves and this is not just the fact that they are jealous alone but once you start buying something from a store they find it so difficult to allow you buy something from another person even when they do not have what you want to buy. But to me, I feel like you as a sales person or an enterprise owner, you should be able to equip your store to the point that when people come looking for something in your store they will be able to get it.

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Imagine going to a store where you have been buying things for some time and eventually the store close down and people had to divert including myself to another place to buy things because the store has not been functioning anymore. After some time the owner of the store decided to open up again but this time she does not have the ability to buy many things in her store for people to buy. She walked up to me to tell me that she has now restocked our store, but then I was wondering what I was going to buy from her because she does not have most of the things I do buy.

I didn't hesitate, so I just nodded and said okay. But then I never knew this woman was always monitoring everything I buy. But before then I did something, which was to make her know that I am still interested in buying things from her. What I do is that before going to any place to buy anything I ensure that I go to a store first and ask for some things and if she does not have it then I will go to another store to buy. But I never knew she does not want me to go to any other store to buy when she does not even have what I want to buy.

Then one day I went to her to buy noodles, but she does not have, but initially I wanted to buy noodles and egg, but she has only egg but no noodles then I went to the other store and when I got there I was able to buy everything I need. While coming back, I wanted to go to her to buy something else so that she can as well make some money. But when I got there, she attacked me of buying from another person and not her.

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I stood with disdain. And wonder why she was not calm because I purposely wanted to buy something from her because I have gone to buy from another person even when she does not have what I needed to buy. I was thinking of I have done the wrong thing but while I was going with my friend, I asked the same question from my friend who said I was right with what I did. As an entrepreneur, there is always a room for competition, and this is what I feel will make us buckle up and step up our games.

As an entrepreneur If you do not have a competition around you then you feel so we can relax because there are some things which you will sell and when the first person asks, and you do not have it and another person ask the same thing you will be forced to get it because you want to satisfy your customers, and you don't want them to go else when. Moreover, we need to be very patient with our customers because we do not own them. Each customer reserve the right to buy anything from whomever they please at any time without anyone questioning them. So I think we just need to do well in our job as an entrepreneur to avoid chaos.




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A veces me resulta tan difícil entender por qué algunos empresarios se ponen tan celosos de sí mismos y esto no es sólo el hecho de que están celosos por sí solos, sino que una vez que empiezas a comprar algo en una tienda les resulta tan difícil permitir que compres algo de otra persona, incluso cuando no tienen lo que quieres comprar. Pero para mi, siento que tu como vendedor o dueño de una empresa, deberias ser capaz de equipar tu tienda hasta el punto de que cuando la gente venga a buscar algo a tu tienda sea capaz de conseguirlo.

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Imagina que vas a una tienda donde has estado comprando cosas durante algún tiempo y finalmente la tienda cierra y la gente tiene que desviarse, incluido yo mismo, a otro lugar para comprar cosas porque la tienda ya no funciona. Después de algún tiempo, la dueña de la tienda decidió abrir de nuevo, pero esta vez no tiene la capacidad de comprar muchas cosas en su tienda para que la gente compre. Se acercó a mí para decirme que ya había reabastecido la tienda, pero entonces me pregunté qué le iba a comprar porque no tiene la mayoría de las cosas que yo compro.

No lo dudé, así que asentí y dije que de acuerdo. Pero entonces no sabía que esta mujer siempre estaba controlando todo lo que compro. Pero antes hice algo, que fue hacerle saber que sigo interesada en comprarle cosas. Lo que hago es que antes de ir a cualquier sitio a comprar algo me aseguro de ir primero a una tienda y pedir algunas cosas y si no las tiene entonces voy a otra tienda a comprar. Pero nunca supe que ella no quiere que vaya a otra tienda a comprar cuando ni siquiera tiene lo que yo quiero comprar.

Un día fui a comprarle fideos, pero no tenía, pero al principio quería comprar fideos y huevo, pero sólo tenía huevo pero no fideos, entonces fui a la otra tienda y cuando llegué allí pude comprar todo lo que necesitaba. Al volver, quise ir a comprarle algo más para que ella también pudiera ganar algo de dinero. Pero cuando llegué allí, me atacó por comprar a otra persona y no a ella.

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Me pare con desdén. Y me pregunte porque ella no estaba tranquila porque yo a proposito queria comprarle algo a ella porque yo he ido a comprarle a otra persona aun cuando ella no tiene lo que yo necesitaba comprar. Estaba pensando en que he hecho mal pero mientras iba con mi amiga, le hice la misma pregunta a mi amiga que me dijo que estaba en lo cierto con lo que hice. Como empresario, siempre hay lugar para la competencia, y esto es lo que creo que nos hará abrocharnos el cinturón e intensificar nuestros juegos.

Como empresario, si no tienes competencia a tu alrededor, puedes estar tranquilo, porque hay cosas que vas a vender y cuando la primera persona te lo pida y no lo tengas y otra te pida lo mismo, te verás obligado a conseguirlo, porque quieres satisfacer a tus clientes y no quieres que se vayan a otro sitio. Además, tenemos que ser muy pacientes con nuestros clientes porque no somos sus dueños. Cada cliente se reserva el derecho de comprar lo que quiera a quien quiera en cualquier momento sin que nadie le cuestione. Así que creo que sólo tenemos que hacer bien nuestro trabajo como empresarios para evitar el caos.

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It can be frustrating to see that customers prefer competitors to your business, especially if you are confident in the superiority of your products. However, it is important to remember that customers have their own preferences and reasons for choosing .

Yeah, that's very correct. But I think every entrepreneur needs to know that each customers has a preference and not making mandates for them.

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