The next store that we arrived at was the one owned by the third largest company.
This store was much smaller compared to the two larger companies.
However, that was because this third largest company wasn't based in this city in the first place.
This third largest company was just a branch of a larger company that did business all over the kingdom. Just the branch company of this larger company was already big enough to be known as the third largest company in the kingdom.
That just went to show how powerful the main company was.
However, this was also the reason why I had the most doubts about this company.
Since it was just a branch company, there were many different problems that this place could have.
It could be run by someone who only cared about making as much profit as possible to impress the main company, it could be run by people who didn't care about the customers since they thought it was beneath them, or there could be all kinds of different problems with this store.
That was why I was the most worried about this place and had already basically written it off from the candidates that we could cooperate with.
This was also the reason why I was very surprised when I walked into the store.
This store was completely different from what I had imagined.
Instead of looking like the other two stores, this place was much more simple.
In fact, it almost looked like a general store instead of a large business store.
When we came in, I saw that there weren't many people here in the first place. There were only a few customers that were wandering around the store and beside each of those customers, there was a store clerk that was helping them.
In fact, as we came in, there was a store clerk that came over with a smile on his face.
As soon as he came over, he said, "Welcome to our store, is there anything that I can help you with?"
I just looked at him without saying a thing and as I was looking at him, I didn't see a single trace of impatience. This was a sign that he had been trained well and was very skilled in dealing with customers.
I couldn't help feeling more and more curious about this place after seeing this.
I had wanted to quickly go through this place and leave, but now I wanted to know more about this place.
But at the same time, I wanted to test this store to see if they had what I wanted from them.
So I muttered in a soft voice, "Nothing much, I'm just looking around."
The way I said it sounded very non-committal, making it clear that I wouldn't be a good customer for them.
After I said this, I carefully observed the reaction of this store clerk.
There was no sign of impatience or annoyance that appeared, the store clerk just maintained the same friendly smile that he had on his face the entire time as he said, "No problem, sir. If there's anything that you need help with, please call at any time."
Then after saying this, he took two steps back so that he was still within earshot while also giving me space to do what I wanted.
I couldn't help feeling impressed when I saw this.
This was a style of service that was popular in my previous world, but it was rare to see in this medieval world. Of the shops that I had gone to before, they would just have a person behind the counter and there wouldn't be any personal service attendants like this.
At the same time, I could tell that the smile on his face wasn't forced since there were no minor adjustments with that smile. It was a sincere smile that came from the bottom of his heart which meant that he was happy with his job here.
The more I saw of this, the more my opinion of this store changed.
After browsing for a bit, I suddenly said, "Excuse me!"
The clerk that had greeted me came over immediately and said, "Sir, is there anything I can help you with?"
The speed at which he came over surprised me, but it also impressed me again.
I had spoken softly before, but this time, I spoke in a sharp and quick tone as I asked, "Do you know the background of this item? Also, can you tell me if it comes in…"
I picked up a random item and quickly made several demands of the clerk. With each of the demands becoming more and more irrational.
I had tested their patience before by pretending to be a window shopper, but now I wanted to see how they would hold up against a bad customer.
At first, the clerk did his best to answer the questions that I had. He did quite well even though I had been asking a bunch of questions that could be considered unreasonable.
But as time passed and he was bombarded with more and more questions, he finally couldn't keep up anymore and started faltering.
However, at no point did he show any trace of losing his temper or becoming impatient. He just calmly tried his best to answer my questions, even though he did start to falter near the end.
It wasn't my intention to make this young man have a mental breakdown and I had already seen enough to make a judgement, so I had planned on stopping the questioning.
But before I could, there was a soothing voice that said, "I'm sorry about this, how about I take over here?"
Hearing this voice, we all turned to look in the direction that it came from.
When I saw the owner of this voice, I couldn't help being surprised.
That was because there was beauty and then there was this level of dazzling that made one stunned.
That was what was placed in front of me.