"These consumers often buy one or two years 'worth of such items at a time, storing them in their homes and using them as they need them," says Chen. Sending small volumes of their products all the way to Hualien, a place with which they had no contact, just sounded silly to artisan producers.
相形之下，把產品出到「遙遠而陌生」的花蓮，量又不多，對業者而言，乍聽之下彷彿天方夜譚。