Vendor Interviews

Interviewee:Mountain vegetables

  • Question:1. Name of interviewee
  • Answer:My last name is Chuang, and my first name is Fu-mei, Fu which literally means wealthy and beautiful respectively (Miss Fu-mei Chuang)
  • Question:2. What goods does the interviewee sell (main goods)?
  • Answer:I sell vegetables.
  • Question:3.When did the interviewee join the Shidong Market?
  • Answer:When Shidong Market first opened, we started working here, which has been for about 30~40 years.
  • Question:4. How did the interviewee get to know Shidong Market then?
  • Answer:I've been doing business here all the time.
  • Question:5.Why did the interviewee want to join Shidong Market?
  • Answer:This is the place where we work, and we have been working here.
  • Question:6.Are there any stories happening at Shidong Market?
  • Answer:The only recent story is that the "good relations team" reformed the traditional market on May 23, 2017 to make it more clean and tidy.
  • Question:7.What changes does the interviewee feel about the current Shidong Market compared with its past (the economic changes and architecture of Shidong Market)?
  • Answer:There isn’t any now since the Shidong Market is very clean.
  • Question:8.If we could change the market (more realistically), where does the interviewee want to change the most?
  • Answer:Places that call for more change should be very few.
  • Question:9.Does the interviewee think it is helpful to the interviewee by staying at Shidong Market now?
  • Answer:Yes, of course. It's a place where I make a living and it's very helpful to me.
  • Question:10.Is Shidong Market different from other traditional markets (except for the architecture; for example, food)?
  • Answer:Clean and neat, no foul smell, and the lighting is bright, with a full variety of goods.
  • Question:11.Has the interviewee met any interesting customers in the market?
  • Answer:There are too many costumers here, from many different countries in the world.
  • Question:12.Does the interviewee has many frequent customers (the reference is 5)?
  • Answer:The costumers are most regulars who are very familiar to us.
  • Question:13.What are the interviewee’s feeling of staying at Shidong Market now?
  • Answer:Now the Shidong Market is very clean. Our chairman has done a good job in promoting the market. The Shidong Market is very famous in Taiwan, and it is a five star market.
  • Question:14.What are the interviewee’s opinions on the “Good Relationship”?
  • Answer:To promote the relationship among people, so that they will become familiar through buying and selling.
  • Question:15.Does the interviewee have any dissatisfaction about current Shidong Market?
  • Answer:No, there isn’t.

Vendor Interviews

Interviewee:Chef brunch

  • Question:1. Name of interviewee
  • Answer:My name is Hui-chen Chang.
  • Question:2. What goods does the interviewee sell (main goods)?
  • Answer:I sell sandwiches, pasta and stewed rice.
  • Question:3.When did the interviewee join the Shidong Market?
  • Answer:About 2 years.
  • Question:4. How did the interviewee get to know Shidong Market then?
  • Answer:Because my husband is a local resident.
  • Question:5.Why did the interviewee want to join Shidong Market?
  • Answer:This is a good neighborhood with regular surge of people, and also my husband has grown up here, so there is some personal feelings here.
  • Question:6.Are there any stories happening at Shidong Market?
  • Answer:Shidong Market has a very special tradition-the surplus food donation. Every day all the vendors would donate the unsold food to the social welfare organizations, so that the food could be given to families that are in need of help. I think this is Shidong Market’s way to do something good for the society.
  • Question:7.What changes does the interviewee feel about the current Shidong Market compared with its past (the economic changes and architecture of Shidong Market)?
  • Answer:The environment is very different now. The building is about 23 years old and the air is very fresh without any foul smell.
  • Question:8.If we could change the market (more realistically), where does the interviewee want to change the most?
  • Answer:There are fewer seats on the 2 floor, and we hope to have more seats at dining hours.
  • Question:9.Does the interviewee think it is helpful to the interviewee by staying at Shidong Market now?
  • Answer:Yes, of course. It's very helpful.
  • Question:10.Is Shidong Market different from other traditional markets (except for the architecture; for example, food)?
  • Answer:It's complete, including air conditioning, drainage and garbage sorting, and food is much more international, since many foreign customers like to buy things here.
  • Question:11.Has the interviewee met any interesting customers in the market?
  • Answer:There are a lot of entertainers, such as Aimee Sun, and a handsome artist, such as Aaron Yan, etc.
  • Question:12.Does the interviewee has many frequent customers (the reference is 5)?
  • Answer:We have many regular customers, while guests from other places are relatively less.
  • Question:13.What are the interviewee’s feeling of staying at Shidong Market now?
  • Answer:This is a very warm place with friendly people.
  • Question:14.What are the interviewee’s opinions on the “Good Relationship”?
  • Answer:They will make the environment more beautiful, the traditional market more innovative, with many design elements, commodity decoration, which allows the vendors to know more about how to display and classification.
  • Question:15.Does the interviewee have any dissatisfaction about current Shidong Market?
  • Answer:Traffic problems, it's easy to get caught in traffic jam.
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