"When business is good, its not unusual to have a turnover of two or three hundred thousand U.S. dollars every day," says Chang Chih-mei. The problem is profit. "Before one could turn a profit of 20,000 on sales of 50,000; now one only has 4,000 left."
「生意好的時候，每天二、三十萬美元進出，不算什麼稀奇的事」，張志梅說，問題是業務成長的速度還沒有商店增加得快，看來做得轟轟烈烈，但利潤薄了，「以前賣五萬美元，可以賺二萬，現在只剩四千。」