Here in my province, there is a thriving wholesale clothes business. It’s called ukay-ukay. I’m sure you have heard of it.
In this place where people can’t afford going to department stores, ukay-ukay stores come in handy. There was a time when even my mother were urged by her friends to buy clothes from ukay-ukay. She bought nice shorts for 50 pesos each and some t-shirt/blouse for 10 pesos. Where in the world can you buy something as cheap as that?
However, there is a downside to this. Ukay-ukay clothes are used clothes mostly from the United States. You don’t know who first wore them or if they have skin diseases or what.
What we did was first soak the clothes in boiling water. That may be not enough though. So I told my mother after a few times she went to the ukay-ukay, to please stop buying.
But I guess most people here find ukay-ukay handy and cheap. In fact, everywhere you look here, there is an ukay-ukay store. So business must be thriving.
May 24th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
glo,
nagtataka ako how they can afford to sell that at so cheap a price.
sa mga second hand stores like goodwill, salvation army and thriftown, tees already cost more than a dollar.
i guess yong mga rejects yan dito na binibili bulto from the warehouse of goodwill and salvation army.
they’re merely donations so they can afford to sell at a very low price. yon sigurong wala ng pilian.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
oo cat, baka yung bulto-bulto ang mga dumarating dito.sobrang mura ang benta nila eh.
di ba relief goods yan noong araw for the philippines? ngayon negosyo na.