Sari-sari-soft

Forget Bill Gates, ask the Balbutins or Tita Loly for business advice. Go to the Philippines and you’ll find a whole bunch of sari-sari stores on one block, selling everything from soap to airplane engines (sari-sari means ‘alota-different-stuff’). If you give them a certain password, the owners will add your name to their store signs. Actually they don’t that.