Beijing**Client|Reporter Sun Yi Wei Jing.
Needles and threads, small repairs and small repairs, in life, you can always encounter some inconspicuous small needs. The elderly, in particular, are very sensitive to small conveniences that can meet small needs.
Is it easy to find a shop that repairs and repairs?The reporter selected three elderly people who lived near the second, third, and fifth ring roads, and asked them to restore the usual scenes of looking for small conveniences.
Location: Outside the 5th Ring Road.
Get on the bike and go to the neighborhood next door to cut clothes.
Outside the South Fifth Ring Road, Shanglinyuan Community, completed in 2002, 62-year-old Aunt Huang was the first resident to move in. "At that time, there were no small communities here, and there were a lot of crops. ”
Twenty years have passed, the crops are gone, and the commercial facilities in the community are still barren. The reporter saw a 15-minute guide map of the convenient life circle of Shanglin Garden by the door of the only vegetable station in the community. A total of 14 convenient service points are marked in the map, which is sparse within a 15-minute walking radius. Moreover, these 14 points also include neighborhood committees, parks, subway stations, police stations, schools, kindergartens, and only 1 restaurant and 2 supermarkets.
How to solve the need for a little repair?Fortunately, Aunt Huang touched the doorway. She picked up her daughter's coat that she asked for a facelift, rode a small electric car, and went straight to the west gate of the community. "Go to the Demao community next door, there are many small shops there. ”
Demao Community was built in 1985, and its east gate is connected to the west gate of Shanglin Yuan. Aunt Huang's car passed through the connecting gate, and the first small repair shop in the Demao community was just around the corner of the wall. The owner, Uncle Zhao, is 68 years old, a resident of Demao Community, and has been operating small repairs and repairs for 20 years since he retired from the interior. He used to work as a fitter in the factory, and he was skillful and studious, but now he does it all with keys, changing lock cylinders, repairing shoes, repairing zippers, repairing cars, and sharpening knives. "Subsidize the family, you can't earn much money, the cheapest key is only three yuan a piece, and you can earn three or four thousand a month. Uncle Zhao was straightforward and fast-talking, he said that he was rain or shine, and he only rested for 7 days during the Spring Festival. In order to shelter from the wind and rain, he built a canopy, and a nearby real estate agent gave another canopy for free. "Even with the advertising of people. "The existence of Uncle Zhao is a small repair in the two communities.
Uncle Zhao's small repair booth next to the east gate of Demao Community radiates the two communities of Demao and Shanglinyuan.
Further down the Demao community, downstairs at No. 7, is another car repair shop of Uncle Zhao, who is 67 years old and also a local. "Hey, if you don't make money, you can't afford to rent a house. ”
Auntie Huang's destination is a laundry shop under Building 3, which provides both laundry and tailoring services. The small shop is not big, it has been open for more than ten years, the owner and Aunt Huang are very familiar, and the small work is generally solved for 10 yuan.
The laundry shop downstairs of No. 3 Demao Community also provides tailoring services, and the residents of Shanglinyuan Community next door also come here to mend seams.
There are several vegetable stations at the south gate of Demao Community, there are vegetables and meat, live fish are killed, and there are elderly people on the roadside outside the door for haircuts, eight yuan. Although the Shanglin Garden, where she lives, has a newer building and a cleaner environment, in terms of convenience of life, Aunt Huang has given the Demao community a high score.
Location: Outside the 3rd Ring Road.
Having a convenience market is very important to life.
71-year-old Grandma Xu sits on a chair on the fitness path in the Huafang Jiayuan community, beating her legs while resting. She had just finished visiting the market, not counting the time it took to walk one way back and forth, and it took a total of 40 minutes. "I'm old and slow-moving, not like you young people. "Grandma Xu went to the Dongsen Convenience Market, starting from her home and walking there about 1 kilometer each way. Because there are very few stalls for minor repairs and repairs near her home, Grandma Xu generally has this kind of demand, and she goes to the Dongsen convenience market to buy vegetables along the way. "The south side of Dongsen is next to Wumei, where there are also small repairs, haircuts, and quick cuts. ”
The small shop that used to provide haircuts for the elderly in Huafang Jiayuan, Shunyi A No. 18 Courtyard and other communities has closed.
Grandma Xu has been at home to let her daughter give a haircut, she said, there was a barber shop in the south of the community, to give haircuts to the elderly, it was not expensive, but unfortunately it was closed. The reporter saw a locked barber shop at the bottom of No. 18 Shunyi A on the south side of Huafang Jiayuan. It turns out that this barber shop offers preferential haircuts to the elderly in the neighborhood, and it is also free for residents of Shunyi A No. 18 Hospital.
In addition to haircuts, what other convenience shops are there around the community, Grandma Xu frowned and thought about it for a long time, but she didn't come up with it. "The store is open and stopped, and the changes are quite big, but there are no minor repairs. Other elderly people who were resting in the sun nearby also agreed with Grandma Xu's statement, and everyone agreed that if you go west, go to Shunsitiao, where the convenience points are densely distributed.
The Dongsen convenience market where Grandma Xu visited is at the northwest corner of the intersection of Shunsitiao and Songzhuang Road. Coming out of Huafang Jiayuan Community, the closer you get to the Dongsen Convenience Market, the more small repair and small repair businesses there are. The shops around the market are the most dense, repairing bicycles, matching keys, repairing mobile phones, decorating, and even advertising ** shops are playing the sign of undertaking home decoration. In the market, the first floor sells fresh food, and the second floor is a variety of clothing processing stalls.
Dongsen convenience market provides convenience for more than a dozen nearby communities.
On the south side of Dongsen Convenience Market, Wumart Supermarket provides shopping, haircuts, watch repairs and other services. A small business district composed of a market and a supermarket, radiating the convenience of life in dozens of nearby communities, small repairs and small repairs.
Grandma Xu also lamented that a small business district is of great significance to her life: "Thanks to such a market, the location is fixed and the service is stable. It's not like a roadside stall, maybe it's gone one day. ”
Clothing modification service on the second floor of Dongsen Convenience Market.
Location: 2nd Ring Road.
I have a "convenient private map" hidden in my mind
74-year-old Uncle Song Zhenduo lives in the Zhongzhongli community. He has a strong body and likes to ride around on weekdays. For the distribution of various convenient businesses around the community, the elderly are like a few treasures, and they have already formed a "private map" in their minds.
Grocery shopping, more convenient orders, forming a competition with each other", Uncle Song nodded his fingers, "There is a supermarket in the back of the community." The Chongwen vegetable market in the south is not far away, and the best is Liuyi Square, a fresh supermarket under the Lingxing International Building. ”
In contrast, the format of "small repairs and small repairs" is a bit weak. This weakness does not mean that it cannot be found, but there are always such and such undesirable places.
For example, sewing and remodeling, Uncle Song's wife, Aunt Ye, participated in a choir performance two years ago and wanted to add a layer of yarn lining to the silk skirt. There is a modification shop four or five hundred meters away, and it costs nearly 200 yuan when asked, which is about to catch up with the ** of the skirt itself. Aunt Ye took back the clothes, cut them herself, and sewed them, "Anyway, it's inside, and you can't see it from the outside." ”
Prices are rising, rents are rising, and people want to do business, and the cost is high. Uncle Song can understand this, but he does feel expensive. "I watched the price of cutting a trouser leg rise from 10 yuan to 40 yuan, and when it reached 20 yuan, we didn't go, we could do it ourselves, and learn to do it. ”
In addition to **, the "temperament" of the merchant is also valued by the elderly. Uncle Song recalled that once at the gate of Wenhui Middle School, a lady asked where the nearest car repair point was. Although he knew that it was not far away, he selfishly did not want to recommend it. "I've been there before because of a tie in the inner band, and there was a female customer waiting to fix the car, and she was actually screwing. The shopkeeper ignored it, and repaired the electric car for a long time before repairing it for her, so she used a screw and charged five yuan, which didn't cost money. ”
If you have enough time, or can't "deal with", Uncle Song and his wife still like to go to their "treasure shop" - a car repair stall and a shoe repair stall around Xizhao Temple to deal with these small repairs. These two shops are nearly 2 kilometers away from the old man's current residence, and both are quite old.
We used to live at Yushoji Temple for 10 years, and they were already here. It's been almost 10 years since I moved to Faithful, and when I went back to find them, they were still there. Aunt Ye took over the conversation, "* Reasonable, the people are also more enthusiastic, and they are very popular with the residents." "The last time I was looking for a stall to repair the car, it was Uncle Song's car that rattled when he rode up, and he pedaled over, and found that the bearing inside was broken, and he replaced it with a new one, which only cost more than a dozen yuan.
Survey Notes. It's not easy to run a small repair.
In recent years, reporters have often visited shops in Beijing that have repaired and repaired small repairs. Every time, there is a new change. Some shops are valued by the local streets, not only free of rent, but also upgraded facilities, so that they can not only affect the city's appearance, but also better serve the citizens, especially the elderly;But some stalls have long since disappeared.
During this visit, many elderly people mentioned that they didn't want the small repairs around them to disappear, "It's not easy to persevere." ”
The old people believe that a stall seems to be only a few square meters square, but it radiates the lives of tens of thousands of people in many nearby communities and tens of thousands of people. With the addition of a new spot, it will take time for residents to build trust.
It is not easy to satisfy everyone and get recognition. This is related to the manager's technology, fees, character, and enthusiasm ......Just like a big tree, it has finally taken root and spread its branches, and it should be supported and protected as much as possible, so that it can flourish and shade everyone.
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