Interviewee: The clerk of souvenir shop

Time: 2011.10.22

Address: section 3, Minchan East Road

Type of the store: Food (cake, dried fruits)

Size: around two normal classrooms with 10 clerks.

I have been working here for 6 months. The customers are mainly the tourists and the local residents. The tourists’ favorite is “pineapple cake” since it’s famous in Taiwan. The Direct charter flights between Taiwan and China bring us a little bit more customers. I hope the airport can be more international in the future.

Note: The store is big and it seems running well. However the clerks are relatively conservative. The interviewee herself tended to have no comments to our many questions. Maybe she just wanted to keep their business secret. During the interview, just when our interviewee told us the change of TSA only brought them “a little bit more” customers, we saw a bus with 20~30 tourist from China arrived. The quiet and empty store suddenly got bustling and noisy. There clerks were busy introducing and inviting everybody to taste the product.