Shoe Material Market Is Hard To Do This Year.

In the shoe market in southern Zhejiang, the past traffic jam, the ceasing call of cars, and the traffic between vehicles and vehicles have disappeared now. Instead, the occasional cars passing by on the road and the shops on both sides of the street are deserted. There are only two or three shop assistants in most shops, and there are no surplus customers.

Many shops operators sigh: this year's off-season is a bit early, the duration will be longer than ever before.

Mr. Lee, who has been engaged in pig skin sales for 6 years in the shoe market of South Zhejiang, has seen strange things in today's market.

"From the second half of last year, the phenomenon of the shoe industry in Wenzhou has been showing signs of recession. Now it is just a continuation of the situation," Mr. Li said. "With the rising prices, especially the price rise of pork last year, the price of pig skin has doubled, and the price of pig leather has also risen. In particular, the price rise of pork has doubled since last year, and the price of pig skin has doubled. The price of pig leather has also risen, rising at 1-2 yuan per square foot, coupled with the slump in the market.

In the peak season, every day, the whole vehicle was taken away from the truck every day during the peak season. Now it is a piece of leather which is pported to the shop by the manufacturer itself. Occasionally, there are one or two guests. They only buy a small amount of leather to go back to the proofing, and there are almost no big orders now.

Owing to the influence of the environment, Mr. Li would rather look at leather than sell leather to small and medium-sized shoe companies on credit.

"Perhaps the shoe factory will be closed on that day, and those accounts will not be recovered. In the end, they will lose themselves. In contrast, they will be more cautious than before, and this is very much related to the instability of the whole footwear industry.

"The off-season of the past almost all appeared in May, and now it is now very cold in April, and the peak season after the previous Festival is not prosperous this year."

Mr. Li told reporters that past shop clerks were too old, "because no guests, young people simply can not stay, too idle, can only take a nap to kill time."

The same is true of shops selling shoe machines, heels and buckles.

After visiting several shoe machine shops, the clerk first said, "business is hard to do now!"

A salesperson who did not want to be named told reporters that some shoe-making manufacturers used to have 4 stores in the shoe market, and each store had a very good business, but now some manufacturers have reduced the number of 4 to 1.

In the shoe material market of Wenzhou, some shops that run heels, whether inside or outside the store, are quiet. The salesmen in the store often hold a magazine to fight with time.

"There may be more shoe companies going bankrupt in the future, and the situation is not going to be conclusive. We can only take one step at a time."

Facing the cold and cheerless market, Mr. Li said helplessly.