Day 107 of 160

Day 107: The Pharmacy Franchise Fine Print

At their kitchen table in Tanza, Cavite, Jenny (A), who wants to put their savings into a small generic pharmacy franchise, waits as her husband Sonny (B), a bookkeeper, reads through the franchise agreement.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense.
  3. Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Tagalog. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.

Dialogue

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  1. A

    Tatlong gabi mo nang binabasa 'yan. Pipirma na ba tayo?

    You've been reading that for three nights. So, are we signing?

  2. B

    Hindi pa. Sa unang sampung pahina, maayos naman ang lahat.

    Not yet. In the first ten pages, everything's fine.

  3. A

    Sabi ko sa 'yo, sulit ang ipon natin dito.

    I told you our savings would be well spent here.

  4. B

    Pero heto ang page fourteen. Sa madaling salita, sa kanila ka lang puwedeng kumuha ng gamot, sa presyong sila ang nagtatakda.

    But here's page fourteen. In short, you can only get your medicines from them, at prices they set.

  5. A

    Normal lang 'yon sa franchise, para pare-pareho ang lahat ng branch.

    That's normal for a franchise, so every branch is the same.

  6. B

    Kahit mas mura sa ibang supplier, bawal. Ang paracetamol nila, halos doble ng presyo sa labas.

    Even if another supplier is cheaper, you can't. Their paracetamol is almost double the price elsewhere.

  7. A

    Doble? Paano tayo makikipagsabayan sa botika sa tapat ng palengke?

    Double? How are we supposed to compete with the drugstore across from the market?

  8. B

    May isa pa: limang taon kang bawal magbukas ng sariling botika pagkatapos ng kontrata. Sa kabuuan, sa kanila ang kita, sa atin ang lugi.

    There's one more: for five years after the contract, you can't open a pharmacy of your own. All in all, the profit is theirs and the losses are ours.

  9. A

    Itabi mo na 'yan. Magtayo na lang tayo ng sariling botika, at kunin natin ang pamangkin mong pharmacist.

    Put that away. Let's just open our own pharmacy, and hire your niece the pharmacist.

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