Can opening a flower shop, bookstore and coffee shop really support your literary dream?

It is a good thing to have a literary dream that supports one's progress, but whether the dream can compete with the cruel reality is open to question.

Without considering other conditions, if you are allowed to open a shop, most young artists and more than 90% of girls choose a flower shop, coffee shop or bookstore. You probably chose these stores because they symbolize a kind of leisure life to some extent, and this kind of literary pastime is good for both yourself and others.

Flower Shop

Flower is a kind of existence that makes people happy and communicates emotion. A bouquet of flowers can be used for various occasions such as gratitude, confession, apology, opening of a new store, etc., even for people who are not good at words, flowers can express their feelings better than words. As a result, most literary and art young people are keen to open a physical flower shop that "smells its fragrance before seeing its shadow". On the one hand, the image of flowers is more in line with the temperament of young people in literature and art, and on the other hand, because every young man in literature and art has a delicate heart, it is easy for them to manage a flower shop, which requires patience and love.

Is that true? In recent years, the strong implementation of "frugality" in China has led to the closure of many high-end entertainment and consumption places, business flowers and conference flowers, resulting in the dismal operation of many physical florists. At the same time, with the development of the Internet, online florists have become popular, which has a strong impact on physical florists. Compared with the physical florist, the online florist saves more operating costs, and its convenience and flexibility has also become an important reason to attract consumers. Physical florist is gradually going downhill, if you only rely on this meagre profit, do not develop online management, you must have a worrying fate.

Coffee shop

A cup of strong coffee is not only refreshing but also good for thinking. Coffee was called "the spiritual food of thinkers and chess masters" as early as the Arab era. Apart from thinking about life and the world with the help of coffee, people can also read books and periodicals, taste desserts, talk, listen to music, and greatly relax their body and mind. It can be said that the coffee shop is a good place to empty the brain.

But you would never expect that most coffee shops are struggling to survive. Some stores have been transferred several times, and their owners have not been able to come back to life, while others have just opened and are in a hurry to close down. Opening a coffee shop is likely to be a momentary idea of young writers and artists, who often fail to do a good job in market analysis, rush to open a business as soon as their brains are hot, and fail in a hurry to run poorly. Moreover, most young people in literature and art are not doers. In their eyes, a coffee shop is a place to sell feelings, as long as you are happy to come and go, and the concept of profit is vague. Literary and artistic youth are flocking to open coffee shops, but they do not take into account the problem of creating an exclusive culture of coffee shops. at present, most coffee shops tend to be homogeneous, and in order to stand out among many coffee shops, they have to rely on their own unique culture, which is often difficult to achieve.

Bookstore

Talk about private bookstores. Like the physical florist, the physical bookstore has also suffered setbacks due to the development of the Internet and e-commerce. With the rise of e-commerce, online bookstores emerge as the times require, diverting most of the readers. Online bookstores have launched preferential activities such as "buy 200 minus 100" and "sell books at half price", which makes consumers of physical bookstores turn to online shopping. The online bookstore has no high tax and no rent, and the operating cost is low, so the price of the book is cheap, and the physical bookstore has undoubtedly suffered a positive impact in this respect. You may have doubts: brick-and-mortar bookstores often hold some interesting activities, the popularity of ah. But readers are willing to participate in activities but are more willing to buy discount books and periodicals online.

Everyone knows that dreams are plump and reality is bony. It is a good thing to have a literary dream that supports one's progress, but whether the dream can compete with the cruel reality is open to question. As a young man of literature and art, you actually have a lot to consider.

Source: interface [dandelion microcampus]