Hi, my name is Jiro and I'll be running this shop from today. Hi, I'm Jiro.

　Early in the morning, I greeted the owners on both sides as they prepared to open their stores, and my first store in my other world (well, I've never had a store in Japan either) was opened.

　Right now it's still the one and only store, but I have plenty to sell, and depending on the situation, I'm thinking of adding a second store, then a third. Well, there's a limit to the amount of money you can make at a stall, and if I really wanted to make money, I wouldn't be doing this (and the wholesale business is definitely more lucrative), but I've been yearning to have my own store.

　It's a little exaggerated to say that the store itself was opened. It's really just a simple stall in a corner of the market with a table, a cloth and some goods. Rebecca brought the tables and stuff from the market, and she's been helping me out again today because she's worried about me.

　I've never experienced working as a vendor inside a food stall before, and it's really exciting. It's a bit like a festival, or maybe it's just a feeling of being a part of the festival: .......
　If I were to compare it to running a bake sale at a school festival, I'd say it's a bit like running a bake sale at a school festival.　And all you do is resell what you buy in Japan?

　The items we are selling at the market were newly purchased in Japan after yesterday's flea market. I've been making some bold purchases because I've been steadily getting bids for some of the items I've been selling on NetOkku.
　I dare you to buy items that seem to have a lower profit margin than the yarn I sold at the flea market.



　--With funds as scarce as they are right now, it's probably a good idea to bring something more gut-wrenching and profitable, even if it's actually a little risky .......

　But that would probably be too bad news. Even the amateur knife I made was worth 10 gold coins, so if you bring something that is likely to make real money from Japan, it may not be impossible to make 1000 gold coins in a month. However, I think it's dangerous to bring such a lucrative product from Japan and sell it at once, or there's a high possibility of being noticed.

　With ......, a young man with an elf who distributes rare, never-before-seen wonderful items at a special price.
　In the first place, it's conspicuous when he has an elf with him (although it helps that the tattoo hides the slave scars and no one seems to realize that Deanna is a slave), and it's not a good idea to stand out in a weird way any more.
　So only do that kind of big business with people like that when you know a rich person you can trust.
　There's no need to be in a hurry to become a millionaire at all, you know. You've already got more than half of what you want.

　So I've decided to focus on the main items in the marketplace that won't be bad, but just enough to make a buck there.



　The story goes back to yesterday.


　I was setting up a stall at the flea market with great enthusiasm, laying out the yarn I had bought in bulk at the 100 yen shop a few days ago.
　The last time it sold out in an instant, and these materials are easy to hide, so I thought it would be easy to sell them.

　There are a variety of wool yarns, such as 100% wool, acrylic, cotton, linen and silk yarns.
　In the market, I'm thinking of opening a store that sells all kinds of woolen yarns. This time, I only bought the 100% wool yarn from a 100 yen shop.

　The price will be 30 ells per ball, equivalent to 4,500 yen.
　Last time I sold the acrylic ones for 10 ells and the wool ones for 30 ells, so I'm a bit more bullish.
　If I sold all 50 balls, that's the equivalent of 225,000 yen. If I can earn that much in one day (and at the flea market), I'd say it's an unbelievable profit.

　Hahaha. I wonder what would happen if I started a shop in the market with this, it's too much money and it's scary. ......


　However, when I opened the lid, the yarn was hard to sell.

　No, they did sell, but they sold out in the morning alone!　Whoohoo, I'm going to eat eel for lunch! This was not the case. Occasionally, a wealthy-looking lady would say, "N-ma!　I'm only going to buy three or four balls while saying "It's so cheap".
　He says it's cheap, and I guess it's not like the pricing is bad, and I don't know why it's not selling. Last time, the first lady who came in bought all of them and .......
　Oh, well, there simply isn't a broad demand for this. It's not a necessity of life, and if you buy yarn, there's nothing you can do about it if you don't have the skill to knit it.
　But from a knitter's perspective, I'd love to have cheap yarn. That's all.

　But if that's the case, that's what I want to do, and it fits with my desire to make a modest profit, so I guess you could say it's all right. Most of the customers who buy yarn are wealthy ladies, and if you keep them as regular customers, they will buy from you regularly.

　If you develop those customers into loyal customers, then you can say your business is on the right track.

　---- Loyal customers are, in a softer way, "fans" or, in a harsher way, "followers" of the brand, like ...... It is.
　They buy from us regularly, they tell us it has to be here, and they recommend our products to others. Loyalty is the English word for loyalty [royalty] (often written as royalty, but that's not the same as [royalty], which means copyright), which means "loyalty." ......
　Well, to get to that point, you have to go through a series of steps: prospective customer, customer, repeat customer, loyal customer, and so on, but once they become loyal customers, they contribute to your sales on a consistent basis, and they become more favorable to the store. It's all good for you.
　Use Japanese style customer service and aim for 1,000 customers!


　Before noon, I asked a lady who bought 8 balls of yarn for me about the actual demand for yarn.
　She told me that the knitting technique has been basically handed down from mother to child, and the number of people who do it is fewer than in the past (but it's not going away completely because there are a certain number of vocation "knitters"), and the material yarn is more expensive now. Apparently, that's what they say.

　And I was told, in an understatement, that the yarn I sell is cheap and I'm happy with it, but the quality is a bit inferior.
　It's good for everyday use, but not for gifts, he said, .......

　Yeah ....... Yup?
　...... cheap was in that direction? I'm sure the quality of the earth-produced stuff is good, even at a 100 yen store, and this is cheap for this quality!　I thought you meant .......

　I mean, they're selling for 4,500 yen and they're cheap, but the quality is just a little bit better, so how high are these good quality yarns being sold for ......?

　I casually asked the lady about it and she replied, "I think it's about 150 ells".
　TAKEEEEEEEEE!　
　22,500!　A ball of yarn!　
　How much does it take to make a scarf, even though it takes four balls to make a scarf? It costs less than 100,000 yen to make a scarf, it's not even close to skyrocketing!

　Hmmm. If too much yarn is a high quality material, that's going to have to be changed ......?
　To tell you the truth, I'd like to make money by selling a bunch of them, but it's not good to make too much money.
　It's a safe bet that this is how much money you can make?　In Japan, it would be like a little foreign boy who brings the woolen yarn of vicuña (a camel-like animal called the jewel of fiber) from somewhere and sells it on the roadside.
　I shouldn't do this.

　I'd like to buy a little more sneakily, if possible. I even thought it was too much to pay 4,500 yen per ball. ......
　For example, if you get a good woolen yarn from Japan and sell 50 pieces for 100 liters less than the market price, that's 5 gold coins. That's 750,000 yen in just one day. It's at the level where you may be targeted by robbers in a heartbeat. As it stands now, it's unlikely that we'd be able to counter a robbery or an opposition target, and if we were to be attacked on the way to the house, let alone in the middle of the city with the military police, we wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

　I've stopped selling paper because it's too lucrative and you're taking care of other things, but it's not the end of the world.


　Because of the circumstances of ----, my shop in the marketplace was to be a "sewing supply store", and my shop was to specialize in sewing thread, embroidery thread, cotton and linen yarn (even materials other than hair are called yarn, so it's very (apparently, it's a good thing), buttons, and fabric (...) as the main product. I also had a small selection of handicraft items.

　I researched the local prices and set the prices at about 70% of the market price.

　Wool yarns are also available, but the price is set slightly lower than the market price and we only deal in small quantities. Instead, he would like to keep good quality products and keep good customers.

　The reason why I changed my main product line to fabric is because the yarn was unexpectedly expensive - there are other reasons, but I'm going to focus on fabric anyway. At least for a while.


　Also, from yesterday's flea market, I ended up with about 20 pieces of yarn left unsold.
　Even so, I sold 30 pieces of yarn for 900 L, which is about 30 L per piece. We sold 30 pieces of 30 ells to 900 ells, which is equivalent to 135,000 yen.
　We let the customers who bought our products know where the market was located, so they will be repeat customers if we do well.


　As an aside, one of the cheapest and most expensive materials in Japan is hemp (linen).
　When we hear the word hemp, we tend to associate it with a jute bag full of coffee beans and we tend to think of it as a cheap material, but when you actually try to buy hemp at a craft store, you'll be surprised how expensive it is. Cotton is, frankly, much cheaper.
　So I wondered whether or not to stock hemp products, but I thought it would be unnatural to have none at all, so I stocked a few.
　Well, it doesn't matter if they don't sell, it's a kind of camouflage.





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　The first day I opened my stall in the market, my selection was selling well.
　As expected, the number of people looking for yarn (though they had it lined up in a corner) was small, and the fabric - the fabric, in short - was in constant demand, but before I knew it, it was only half full.
　We called it an opening sale, and every customer who bought one got this set of matchi needles!　I think it was a good idea to do that.

　I know what ...... is really all about, and I know why.

　All the cloths sold around here are hand woven. And the yarn before it's woven is also hand-spun.
　I brought machine-spun yarn and machine-woven cloth.
　The fineness of the grain, the feel, and the suppleness of the fabric are incomparable.

　To tell the truth, in Japan, hand-woven fabrics are more expensive than machine-spun ones, to the point where it's ridiculous to compare them. The "organic cotton" we hear so much about these days may be in this category.
　The hand-woven ones have coarse weave and the cloth itself is thick and crude. However, it can be said to have a good "texture", which is why it is a favorite of people who love it.

It's like, "How can you sell such a good product at such a low price?" or "Where is it from?　Hey, where is this from? Some customers asked, "What's the deal?" but he consistently said, "Between you and me, it's a specialty of the Elf Village ....... I had a little bit of luck, and I was able to sign up for a special deal: ......" and so on, he explained, keeping his voice low.
　Deanna looked like she wanted to say something again, but since Deanna's presence is the source of her persuasiveness, I hope you'll forgive the master's glibness.

　Even though we kept the price down, by about 2pm, we were 80% sold, so we decided to pull out, buy some ingredients and go back to the mansion to eat the maid's homemade food.
　Most markets close early, so closing at 2 p.m. wasn't exactly an early end to the day.

　If you can hope for consistent sales like this, maybe you should just open in the morning. That way, I can make more time in the afternoon, scavenge for items for the NetOk, sell them, and hang out with Deanna and Marina. I also want to practice with my horse and sword.



　The first day's sales were 1680 ells.
　Translated into Japanese yen, it's ......, 252,000 yen.

　I realized that I was making too much money, so I made a suggestion to my customers.
"I'll even accept trade-ins of used clothes, fabric and yarn as long as they're of good quality.
　This could be a great way to get good quality items from another world.
　Either way, I was going to buy used clothes and cloths, so it's just fine. From the standpoint of efficiency, you can make a lot of money and buy new clothes or even new cloths, but with NetOkku, there's not much difference in bid prices between "hand-woven cotton cloth, new" and "vintage cotton cloth, beautiful (or dead stock)".
　Well, trade-in is just a part of the service (like men's clothing stores often do, we'll trade in your suit!　(Like). In reality, we won't be inundated with trade-in applicants so much, and even if we do, we can just accept a small discount for low quality items, or we can just be lucky if we get a good one.

　All of my suppliers for this project were large local craft supply stores, not a single item from a 100 yen shop.
　Naturally, the purchase price was far more expensive than at a 100-yen shop. For example, a plain white 100% cotton cloth would be 110 cm wide and 10 cm long for 60 yen. If it was 1 meter long, it would cost 600 yen, and if it was 10 meters long, it would cost 6,000 yen. I was surprised to learn that cloth is so expensive: ......

　However, I bought the fabric.
　It was expensive, but he was excited, saying, "We're going to sell it as a proper business in the marketplace. ......

　In the eliche, the most popular colors were those associated with Le Baraka: red, blue, white and green, so I bought 30 meters of each.

　Actually, I wanted to include velvet, which seems to be very popular in other worlds (just an image), but .......
　It's simply too expensive (over 2,000 yen for 1 meter) to stock a large quantity, and since selling them would be a business for very rich people, it's better to be sure of your position in the market a bit more first.

　The cloth was sold by the metre.
　I brought my mother's scissors, which I had at home, and thought lightly that it would be good if I could cut the fabric in a straight line with my scissors, but in reality, there was no way that a novice could cut a 110 cm wide piece of cloth in a straight line with scissors.
　Nevertheless, we tried, and we were embarrassed when we couldn't make it straight at all.

　We all practiced, and after some practice, Marina became the best at it with surprising dexterity, so I appointed her as the cutter. However, I was disappointed to find that many of the customers would say, "Please don't let the Turks touch me.
　In the end, I practiced (I wasted a bit of cloth) and managed to cut them straight.

　After wondering how much it would cost, I decided on a price of 10 liters per meter.
　The buying price was 600 yen and the selling price was 1500 yen, so I guess it was a realistic price. Considering the way the yarn makes money, though, it's not so easy to make a living.
　Well, "gain from loss" is an old saying ....... I'm not really losing money.

　I'm not sure if it's a loss for me, but it's about 70% of the market price at this price, so it may be a loss for the citizens.


　Anyway, we had a lot of twists and turns, but the cloths sold 80% of the time. The fact that white and red are popular and green are not seems to be linked to reality.

　Well, if they continue to sell at this rate, it's a certainty that the funds will dry up in Japan. I'll have to keep scavenging for NetOkku products.
　If we can save up some money here, we can buy things like pure gold statues and gold accessories. Then it will be easy to exchange for gold in Japan (you can get a pretty good price if you go to a gold purchase center), so you might want to go to ...... to earn money until you reach that amount.
　It may even be more realistic than just NetOkku.


　When I returned to the mansion, Orica said "Welcome home, sir! He greeted me with.
　...... What's this, it's a man's dream. You're greeted by a maid girl.

　But there's still one thing missing... But I got you the stuff!
　I handed a maid's outfit to Orica.

　It's old clothes, but it's a classic style with a long dark blue dress and a white apron. The headdress wasn't included, so I went out of my way to buy it separately.


　Once they changed, it was a peach of a place.

　In the mansion, there's an elf-chan, ...... a dark elf-chan, ...... even a maid-chan, ......... ...We all ate dinner and stuff. ......

　What am I going to do, what am I going to do, what am I going to do with all this excitement?

　...... Anyway, I took a picture of it.