Back then 19-year-old Shiue Pi-goong, future chairman of Sheico, had to quit his low-paying teaching job at Ilan's Hsiaowei Elementary School to help his 11-member family, and started doing business from a street-side stall in an arcade on a Lotung street. That was a time when the currency was worthless: an elementary-school teacher's monthly salary was barely enough to buy three pairs of canvas shoes.
當年 19 歲的薛長興工業董事長薛丕拱一家 11 口食指浩繁，只好辭去薪水微薄的宜蘭孝威國小老師工作，在羅東街道的「亭仔腳（騎樓）」擺攤做起買賣，那是貨幣不值錢、一個國小老師月薪只能買 3 雙布鞋的年代。