City's Best Divine Doctor-Chapter 1512 - 1511: Much Higher Prices

When Zhou Wenting pulled Louise inside to take a look, Ye Qiu and Jiang Xiyue followed behind and watched. This foreign clothing brand was indeed expensive, with prices starting at ten to twenty thousand, but upon touching, they found the quality to be very good.

Louise was familiar with the pricing of foreign brand clothing and was surprised to find that here in East Sea, clothes were more than three times as expensive as those in Europe.

The main reasons were import taxes, rental costs, labor fees, profits, franchise fees, and so on, all adding up to reach this price.

According to the clothing under Louise’s brand, in Europe, they now cost two to three thousand Euros per piece, which translates to about ten to twenty thousand Huaxia Yuan. However, if sold in East Sea, they might start at thirty to forty thousand.

That’s the basic price, and it’s unclear whether there are any sales on Jinling’s pedestrian street.

Louise and Zhou Wenting watched and discussed, naturally very surprised. Louise didn’t expect that there were quite a few consumers. Those who came in only chose colors and styles that suited them, found the right sizes, and then bought them directly without bargaining.

Louise felt that Huaxia people were indeed wealthy.

Ye Qiu observed from the side and could see that those who came in to shop here were almost all well-off white-collar women, who rarely spent an entire month’s salary on a set of clothes.

Louise and Zhou Wenting were looking in front, but neither bought anything, after all, the designs Ye Qiu had designed for them were sufficient.

Dressed as they were now, both women still attracted a lot of attention.

Jiang Xiyue stayed by Ye Qiu’s side, just watching. She had a strong sense of business acumen, something she learned a lot about during her time at the securities company.

She thought that if they were to franchise Louise’s brand clothing here, selling in this prime location would likely be very profitable.

They visited over a dozen such stores, with various styles from Paris, London, New York, and Milan sold in both specialty and franchise stores.

However, some, Louise felt, might be counterfeit, but without evidence, she wouldn’t mention it.

Moreover, these items were not cheap either.

When they eventually saw a specialty store for Louise’s brand, Louise excitedly called Ye Qiu to go inside.

Because the franchise rights for Mainland China had been given to a Hong Kong businessman, with a year still remaining, the owner of this store was surely that Hong Kong businessman.

When Ye Qiu and the three women entered, the sales assistants immediately noticed them, recognizing the styles Louise and Zhou Wenting were wearing as resembling those in their store.

"Miss, hello, is there anything we can help you with?" asked a sales assistant.

"I’d like to look at the summer dresses here," Louise said.

Originally, Ye Qiu had designed eight pieces for Louise, but those eight could change into various colors, turning into dozens of styles instantly, like plain white, beige, pink, green, etc., each color giving a different effect when worn.

Louise picked up a set similar to the style she was wearing, only in a different size, and asked, "Excuse me, how much is this one?"

When Zhou Wenting translated, the sales assistant checked the tag and said: "Miss, this one is forty-eight thousand after discount."

Forty-eight thousand!

Both Louise and Zhou Wenting were surprised; that was almost eight thousand Euros, two to three times more expensive than in Europe.

"Hi, I bought this one in Paris," said Louise.

The sales assistant realized why it seemed so familiar; it was bought in Paris.

Now, agents everywhere only hold franchise rights; production is centralized in Paris, and agents and distributors take stock according to orders, then transport them quickly to various locations.

The mainland items all come from Hong Kong.

"Miss, how much did you pay for this one?" the sales assistant curiously asked.

"This one was duty-free, over two thousand Euros," replied Louise.

In that case, the overall cost was about the same. After all, buying abroad and bringing it back still requires customs duties. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Of course, purchasing abroad in person might be cheaper, given the costs of rent and labor here.

While Louise and the sales assistant conversed, with Zhou Wenting translating, Jiang Xiyue just listened, truly amazed at the four thousand-dollar dresses, which were worth her two-month salary before.

It was hard for Jiang Xiyue to imagine a new brand being so valuable.

After they finished chatting, as more female customers came in, the busy sales assistant excused herself, and Ye Qiu, along with Louise, Zhou Wenting, and Jiang Xiyue, left the store.

"I just found out there are three such specialty stores in East Sea, and a few in Capital City. The Hong Kong businessman’s specialty stores in Mainland China aren’t too numerous yet."

Are three specialty stores not many?

After all, this is a relatively expensive luxury brand; compared to ordinary clothing, there shouldn’t be too many women consumers who can afford or want to buy it.

However, as the saleswoman said, monthly sales here could exceed millions, leading to monthly turnovers in the tens of millions.

That’s just one store, and combined, the three stores nearly reach a monthly turnover of a billion.

Louise simply sells to agents and distributors at a standardized European ex-factory price, so pricing here is entirely up to them.

"Ye Qiu, knowing how profitable your clothes are now, I shouldn’t have become a doctor," Zhou Wenting said.

"But you aren’t short of money, are you? You’re the fourth lady of the Zhou Family and worry about money?" Zhou Wenting held a ten percent share of the Zhou Dabao Group, so how could she lack money?

But then, does anyone ever think they have too much money? Plus, she believed everyone should be financially independent, especially women, to be more confident.

Leaving that clothing brand, they headed for a large mall, filled with jewelry, accessories, and cosmetics—no doubt, women’s money is the easiest to make, whether before or after marriage. Women spend money with their eyes closed.

Inside the jewelry counters, mostly Hong Kong brands were sold along with foreign ones, although the Zhou Family’s wasn’t present.

As Louise and the women walked over and compared the jewelry to that in Paris, they saw the significant price difference.

Domestic jewelry was too expensive, especially foreign brands like Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Bulgari, which were tremendously expensive, but the quality was assured. Consumers likely trusted these foreign brands, which made them popular.