创业 ideas

[oread]

1. Senior care at home: grocery shopping, cooking, home chores, medical care, in short, a nursing home at home.

2. Chinese grocery store in Kanata.

3. Children's daycare center with emphasis on Chinese language training.

 

[lala]

I like #2.

I would start it if I found partner, seriously.

 

[oread]

we've been talking about this for years.

 

[123qwe]

how many chinese are living in kanata?

 

[iloverose]

#3 is better.

 

[不错]

I like #3... Maybe should include chinese culture as well...

 

[oread]

tons

最初由 123qwe 发布
how many chinese are living in kanata?

 

[oread]

According to the latest StatsCan data, more than 3000 Chinese are living in Kanata. If you add the number of South Asian, Southeast Asian, Korean and Japanese, this number is significantly higher. Number of foreign immigrants occupies more than 20% of Kanata's total population.

Average household income in Kanata was almost 80K in 1992. Median total income per person aged 15 and over was 36K in Kanata in 2001.

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/pro...ataType=1&TypeNameE=City [Dissolved]&ID=13992

最初由 123qwe 发布
how many chinese are living in kanata?

 

[wuwei]

----Chinese grocery store in Kanata.

需多少本钱去开？

 

[lala]

loan from bank if necessary ... money should not be an issue.

The challenge probably is how to get good stuff at lower price and where to get them.

 

[lala]

4. Chinese grocery store in Barhaven.

 

[oread]

It's easy to find out the suppliers of groceries, stake out 168 to see where the trucks come from. I think money is still the biggest problem. Initial investment is huge: equipments, labor, groceries (many are parishable as well).

My idea of a grocery store in the suburbs is one that can replace Market 168 or Kowloon Market, i.e. at least their size and offers the same variety. Thus suburban residents do not need to go downtown to shop for Chinese groceries. Bigger, cleaner store, free parking are only a few advantages of a suburban grocery store. Besides I think the demand is sufficient to support one more Chinese grocery store in suburbs. My only dilemma is that I'm not ready to ditch my current job yet, I have too much to lose if this business fails.

最初由 lala 发布
loan from bank if necessary ... money should not be an issue.

The challenge probably is how to get good stuff at lower price and where to get them.

 

[wuwei]

不用想富尔莫斯一样啦，供应商业想做生意的，问题是钱！

 

[太极]

问题不是钱，是决心

前些年Hi-Tech的钱太好赚了。现在也是。开小生意比上班要辛苦太多，大陆来的大多是学子，不到万不得以，是不会做的。
刚开始不必太大，房子货架可以租，有一两万盘货就差不多了。要买个旧full Size Van, 去Tor拉货就开张了。

关键是决心。

 

[March]

支持#2
搬到Kanata一个月了, 我只顺便去过一次Chinatown. 太远, 又挤.

我觉得客源和 资金都不应该是大问题. 可是开店也是需要 经验的吧, 开张容易经营下去难.