"Comrade, how much are these buttons?"
Chu Yu smiled and pointed to the small buttons next to her, saying, "These are cheap, 3 cents each. These large acrylic buttons are 30 cents each. You can buy them one by one, or you can buy 10. If you buy 10, you'll get 2 free."
The woman fiddled with the buttons, becoming more and more excited as she looked at them; it was the first time she had ever seen so many buttons.
She turned her head and asked, "Fangfang, aren't you making a coat but can't find any buttons? These acrylic ones are so pretty! Let's buy some!"
The buttons here come in a wide variety of colors, making them perfect for making coats in autumn and winter.
Buying one costs 30 cents, and buying 10 costs an average of 25 cents per button, which can save a lot of money. However, coat buttons usually come in 4 to 6 pieces, and acrylic buttons are not cheap. Fang Fang has just started her internship, and if she buys the buttons, she won't have enough money for food this week. She was really torn.
"The buttons are very pretty. I wish they were cheaper. I wanted to buy the acrylic ones, but I don't need 10 of them."
Fang Fang was too embarrassed to tell him that she didn't have enough money.
Who wouldn't want to buy more if they had the money?
Chen Ping comes from a cadre family and spends money extravagantly without any sense of budgeting. Her monthly living expenses are only thirty or forty yuan!
Fangfang's internship salary was 18 yuan. Every month, she had to send 10 yuan back home to help support her family. The remaining 8 yuan had to cover food and she also had to squeeze out money to buy lipstick and fabric. Luckily, she had a good eye and could dress herself up fashionably with very little money. But asking her to spend 3 yuan on buttons was something Fangfang would never do!
Three yuan can buy a piece of discounted fabric. Department stores will bring out the clothes that were not sold last year for a sales fair between summer and autumn. Some small-sized pants from the south that no one can fit into will be sold cheaply for two or three yuan a pair.
Fangfang often went hungry in order to buy nice clothes for the least amount of money. She had finally managed to save up three or five yuan, and she couldn't just spend it all!
However, the material for her coat could only be made of gray acrylic buttons. She waited at the supply and marketing cooperative for almost half a year but still couldn't buy any. If she didn't buy them now, she wouldn't be able to find nice color combinations once the buttons were all sold out.
Chu Yu noticed her hesitation and pressed her advantage:
“You two can buy them together, each of you can choose 6 acrylic buttons, and it will cost you 1.5 yuan each.”
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