"SLC26-W6 | Street Business Diaries: Exceptional and unknown businesses"

Hello friends

What is the most in-demand exceptional product in your area?

In my area there are many exceptional products which includes those selling children books like school and story book, those selling buckets and pots, those selling flowers but this flowers are synthetics and those selling general confectioneries.

The most important demand amongst all of these items I have mentioned above are the buckets and post. I can classify it as general plastics and pots sellers.

Pots and plastic shop

You can get into such shops and discover different varieties of plastics like plastic plates, spoons, buckets, basin, drums for water storage, food flakes, different varieties of pots too.

Have you ever bought anything from these stores? Show pictures + videos and show their prices

I love to buy my pots or plastics from a particular shop owned by mama Oluchi. A very hard working woman. She has been managing this business for the past 5 years.

	inner display of items in mama Oluchi shop

Mama Oluchi deals on fairly use pots, frying pans, spoons and plastics like food flask, buckets and so on.

Yes I have bought many things from this plastic and pot shop owned by mama oluchi. When I moved into my new apartment, I bought some pots from her. The pot I bought from her is not the common type of pot we see, the one I bought is coated pots, those type that don't burn food.

I have also bought water drum for her before. In the city where I live, water can be scarce sometimes. When there is power outage, water also stops running because electricity is used to pump water. So this water drum is used to store water just Incase of emergencies where there is no water.

	Some plastics sold in mama Oluchi shop

Mama Oluchi says her business is lucrative and she lives what she does for a living. But she says her biggest challenge in this business is this;

Most of the fairy use items that mama Oluchi sells are not first grade, so she says it's usually hard for customers to buy them off fast. The ones she sells faster are first grade items which was one of the ones I have bought before. She says this is a serious challenge for her because some of her items will get old in her shop without been sold.

Let's take a look at the prices of her items below. Check out.

Type of pot	Price in Naira	Price in steem
three sets of Stainless coated pots	25,000 naira	125 steem
two set of non coated stainless pots	15,000 naira	75 steem
1 dozen of stainless spoon	3500 naira	17.5 steem
One Frying pan	5000 Naira	25 steem
One big plastic flask	6000 Naira	30 steem
small plastic take away plates	1000 Naira	5 steem

How do you think these products impact people's lives?

Mama Oluchi sells fairly used products like pots, plastics and even gas cylinders. These products has increasing impacted the life of many dealers in the neighborhood because it has made life much more easy.

Her products are affordable and easy to access because her shop is on the road. The same item she sells for a particular amount, if you check the exact new product in another shop you will notice how expensive it is therefore this product she sells gives people the opportunity to have durable pots, plastics,spoons and cylinders in their homes without breaking the bank.

Not many people can afford new items of what she sells so her business makes it possible to own whatever she sells at a low cost.

Do you think these exceptional businesses are making a special contribution to society

Of course I think so!
These exceptional businesses are making special contributions to the society. Wait until you don't see Mama Oluchi shop opens a whole week, then you will truly understand that they truly affect our society.

Aside this business presented to be affordable to people, the plastics sold helps with waste management, and helps with food storage as in the case of plastic take away plates and pots.

Money is made from this business which has increased the state economy boosting it and serving as a source of livelihood for many women and men especially those who can not find a job.