OK people,
In honor of our people this month and year round, our glory throughout the annals of history and the evidence of our achievements; those silent and those not so silent. Let us recognize Madame CJ Walker and her legacy left to us becoming a wealthy multi-millionaire/entrepreneur from Black hair care and hair care products. And more importantly how all of her achievements have impacted the world through us.
Those things being said, study the picture(s) and think about all the times in recent years/months/weeks/days you've been to the beauty shop, barber shop, nail shop, etc. , and more interestingly, all the stores that we consume our hair care products from.
Where are all the Black Owned Beauty Supply Stores? Why are they so difficult to find when we are the originators of the products, its greatest consumers, and they are made for us?
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There's plenty of black owned beauty supply stores in Atlanta and I have visited a few. However, the problem that I have experienced is that the black owned ones are significatly more expensive than the Asians, don't carry extensive product lines, and the level of customer service tends to leave ALOT to be desired. Sad but true...
Well, I have yet to visit one of them in Atlanta myself, although, I've been informed of two so far. And I understand the significant price difference and selections. But here's the thing I do know...the Asians can and do sell at lower prices b/c they can afford to and most times, they have an arranged discounted wholesale prices with distributors that are also Asian many times.
Most times we don't support our own Black owned businesses of any sort and as a result when we don't have the support, we can't make those accommodations and still expect to stay afloat.
I'm just sayin', just like most other things that used to be...........shyt done changed.
well actually it is a korean and chinese industry, as most of the major wholesale suppliers are korean and do not speak english most times - or will not do business with customers in any language other than korean. There are very few (in the grand scheme of things) af-am beauty product distributors (bronner, dudley, proud lady, etc), so between those and the other mass marketed brands, if you are not able to speak the language then you can't do the business which is really the core of this issue - if you are a biz owner and you want to do biz on a large scale, educate yourself about the biz.
there are articles about this, some of which were spearheaded by Upscale (bronner bros) and Ebony mag. If i can find them, i'll post. Sorry for the rambling style- just wanted to comment and not worry about grammar.
Which still leaves the question of customer service. While asians are not the nicest they are prompt and attentive (even when not speaking language).... sidenote i called up a new AF-AM restaurant in Harlem and asked if they deliver, woman responded no and hung up,i was willing to pick up food but she didn't even wait for me to respond, i ordered chinese instead, who by the way delevered.... the attitude thing is old and played already...come on people.
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