Goodie shops-that's what my wife calls them. All you need is pay RM1 for entry to a 60 minutes health talk and then you can walk away with some daily use items ranging from tissue paper to biscuits and snacks.
So where's the catch?. What is the modus operandi? The RM1 entry fee is just to defray operational costs like contributing to some of the workers' pay,air-conditioning and the like.Actually,it will not even cover their daily expenses. Sometimes they also sell small priced items before the actual talk begins, to make some small money.
For something like 4 months they will have these health talks and will introduce health foods and health equipment. These are real expensive and cost nothing less than RM 1,000. Some even can go up to RM13,000 such as health exercise machines. If they can sell these, they will make a lot of money.
Believe me, these senior citizens are really loaded. Most of them are retired or receiving money from their working kids. They are on a high,buying up almost every health related product that was introduced. As usual, their hope-a cure for current ailments.For those that are big ticket buyers, they will be given free membership to organic food shops where they can buy things at discount prices.
For me, as most of these health talks are either in Cantonese or Mandarin or translations from Japanese, my attention literary fades away after 20 minutes.Before you know it, the talk ends and you hand over your little green cards to get your presents.
Goodie shops open all over the place in KL and PJ and the same senior citizens will be there to take advantage of the goodies that they dish out for just a mere ringgit. Very soon they will get to know one another and trade news on what is being offered at which goodie shop.
What a time to spend the morning just looking at these old folks and to listen to the rambling sales talk!
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