Beijing'S 62 Year Old City Gate Shopping Mall Is Bidding Farewell To Its Old Customers In The Cold Wind.

The shelves in the mall are empty, and there are several pieces of cloth on sale at the counter.

No more than a few dollars, a bottle of face oil shelves, no longer full of cloth and long counters. At 9 a.m., more than half an hour before the departure gate shop opened, half of the curtains opened in front of the shop, and several clerks dressed in blue old clothes were busy. "Don't worry, they will open on time 10." Faced with several old customers gathered at the door, the clerk repeated the remark.

The last day was quite lively.

The news of closure and sale was issued a month ago. Market There is not much stock in it. Nearly half of the counters are basically empty, and other items are sold to several counters. Aunt Hu said, "I really can't bear this old store." Most of the elderly people who came here to buy things, everyone said that only the shop nearby was "right". Like what kind of needle and thread, pull a few feet cloth, buy a "double happiness" enamel basin, here is the most convenient. "Looking at the cosmetic counters at the mall, like our old people buying a" Yu Mei Jing "and" snow cream ", they have to shop in the old store," said Aunt Hu.

However, the "good goods" were almost thrown away, so that the aunt was very disappointed. She turned around several times in the shop, looked at the cloth counters on other commodities, and looked at the empty shelves. Aunt's mouth kept on chatting, "no more," and walked back to the shop door step by step. "Will she be off duty tomorrow?" she asked the salesman. "We are completely retired." Replied the salesman.

Most of the shelves in the shop are empty, and there are several rolls of cloth on the cloth counter. The empty place is stacked up with hot pot and plastic bucket cover. But even the shop manager Chen said that today's customers are more than usual. "Maybe more people want to leave a thought." In the words of manager Chen, there was a little bit of helplessness. As he said, despite the few things, the old customers still wanted to pick something up. Mr. Wang picked up a couple of people in the shoe pad. He told reporters that every day they walked away from the counter. Like Mr. Wang, he bought bicycle parts, bought five clean powder, and even bought a pressure cooker, so that all the old customers were not empty handed.

Despite the deep feelings of the old shopping malls, the salesmen still asked to try not to take photographs and not to write their names when the reporters interviewed. In their words, "after all, it is a closure. It is not a good thing."

A month left many years in stock.

A month ago, more than 300 square meters. Department store There are many people standing in front of the counter, with bicycle accessories, footwear, needles, cosmetics and cloth counters. There are many commodities in the market, which are rare in the market. Besides needles and lines, there are also "rare" but classic products such as rain shoes, small white bear toilet paper, circular sweater needles, such as Beijing rubber five factory. The word "wedding" is also available for sale. Some counters still have abacus, and some salesmen are accustomed to using it to settle accounts instead of using calculators.

The salesgirl, who sells cloth goods, did not know how many times she did breast enlargement exercise this month. She took up the meter and her arms, and measured several rice cloth. Today, her counter is almost sold out. All morning, she helped sell cosmetics on the side counters and bid farewell to her neighbors. One month after the recall, Mr. Chen sighed, "if we are so busy every day, why do we have to turn off this old department store?"

The wages of shopping malls are not high. In recent years, shopping malls have been relying on some forty year old salesmen, and a few retired salesmen who have been retired after retirement. Chen also wanted to recruit young people with academic qualifications to work here. But because of the lack of attractiveness of salary and work style, the few young people came here and could not stay.

At present, the use of Shing Mun store after closure has not been determined.

News memory: old Department store

Department stores, once a spanportation mall in Beijing, used to be a shopping center in various areas. Just like its name, in this state department store, you can buy all kinds of commodities that you need in your life except food. In recent years, some large department stores, such as Xidan shopping malls and department stores, have been successfully spanformed. Most of the regional department stores are closed because of the competition between supermarkets and small shops.

This also leads to the inconvenience of shopping for middle-aged and elderly people with traditional habits. At present, there are few old state department stores in Beijing, including tiger Fang Road, Yongan Road, Dafang department store and so on. So far, the city gate mall, which has been in existence for 62 years, has been the main place for the railway system workers to purchase because of its proximity to the early West Gate railway station and Guanganmen freight station. So far, the "skin care cream" has been sold in the shop is a product widely used by railway maintenance workers.