After about a year when I moved into my residential compound, around 2015, a large local shopping centre opened five minutes walking distance from my front gate. Over the next few years, I found myself spending a lot of time here both for daily shopping and for simply passing time. It had several floors selling everything you need plus a large local supermarket in the basement and the third floor was dedicated to food. They shops were selling local brands and stuffs and you can’t find designer clothes or international brands here. For that you have to go downtown.
The shops were kept small in floor size, perhaps making it easy for the shop owners to pay the rent since most of them were mum and pop business. This also meant that there a diverse range of shops in this shopping centre. Hundreds and hundreds of small tiny shops.
One thing I was always curious about was the proliferation of small nail, eye and eye brow care shops. I think there were easily about twenty shops dedicated to this business on the ground floor and I really didn’t understand how they could make money because everything they offered seemed identical.
