Retail shop feng shui

How to choose a good feng shui retail shop? Some clients make the mistake of consulting me

when the business is failing so badly that they may be 12 months in the red. Even with my

help to improve the profits, it is still not fast enough to cover the excessive losses incurred

before consultation. The right approach is to consult a feng shui master first before putting

your 3 months deposit for the the retail shop that you love at first sight! You may be tempted

by the cheap rent or the frills that are thrown into the “takeover” but beware nothing is free in

Singapore.

Check out the road Master Plan in Singapore

Besides the usual principles of selecting a good retail unit like location, foot-traffic, size, wide

frontage, rental, anchor tenant etc. You have to check Singapore LTA and Master plan (don’t

rely on the property agent that is serving you) on zoning and road structures. Singapore

economy is evolving so rapidly, the sudden construction of a viaduct or MRT or expressway

or flyover can affect your business profits. Take for instance the construction of a viaduct

gives motorists a short cut instead of patronising your shop. In feng shui this is call “artificial

water” which represents wealth. On the other hand a pre-planned MRT exit constructed right

in front of your shop is usually good business feng shui!

Before embarking onto your own business checkup your bazi personality; are you better with

partnership or fly solo? Find out your 10-years luck period projection and your business

favourable element i.e. wood, fire, earth, metal or water. Obviously make sure you hop into

your bazi “10-years golden period” before firing your boss.

Retail shop feng shui tips

1. Your shop should be located on a busy street with wide pavement, huge but slow human

traffic. Take Ngee Ann City building in Orchard road (picture above) as an example it has a

very wide pavement, crowd is huge and slow. Notice the clever use of metal & water to prevent

the qi from escaping. The left and right hand side of the building on the background looks like

palms of hand to embrace the fountain of wealth. It is also symbolic to the Green dragon and

the white tiger based on “form” principles. The five flag poles to prevent “bad energies”. This

is consider to be very auspicious for retail business. If the pavement is narrow than the wealth

leading towards your shop is limited. If one cannot do well inside such a complex with such

good feng shui it must be something wrong with the product or the sales staff.

If your shop is one of those that is located at the dead end of the road cul de sac; in feng shui

this is call “yin 阴” place. It is more beneficial for female entrepreneurs and the merchandise

that you are dealing with should also be “niche-market driven”. In other words not mass

consumer impulse buying goods.

2. Besides a high human traffic volume, from a feng shui “water” technique point of view the

walkways leading to your shop must be from an auspicious origins and the outflow should be

bringing inauspicious energies away from your shop.

3. Mountain of the feng shui, who is the anchor tenant, who is the developer, what are the

amenities of the infrastructure, did the owner of the shopping mall consulted feng shui to

ensure the main entrance is open at the auspicious water “flying star” “8″ during this period till

year 2023. In chinese classical teaching this is call “山富沙旺” business feng shui infrastructure.

4. Choose the shop that has a bright illuminated level lobby, spacious main entrance.

Signboards are bright and clear.

5. It is common in shopping malls with escalators and lifts. Do not choose one where your

door faces an escalator. As for those retail shops that faces the lift it depends on your door

orientation and what energies of that door sector. If you are door energies are “wealth” than it

actually amplify your wealth.

6. Choosing a good brand that represents your niche of business, you can use our auspicious

chinese name service to enhance you business luck. The strokes of the name should be

auspicious and the colour of your company name, logo should be favourable to you the owner

and to the business.The shop front of the retail shop feng shui is important because this is

where the “qi” energies are trapped and people wanted to linger at your shop.

7. Ideally choose the shop at the ground floor because “water” flow downwards. In feng shui

the “water” which are the lifts, escalators are important components to enhance the business

of your retail shop. Get a shop that the road/human pathway leading towards you meanders

instead of long, straight and narrow.

8. The illumination of your retail shop should be balance; warm bright lights is good but not to

the extend of blinding lights that are uncomfortable to the eyes of shoppers; creating

disharmony to the yin yang energies, too dim the place is not attractive to shoppers and your

employees are probably feeling sleepy.

9. if your business is suitable to water usually is because “retail business” belongs to the water

element unless yours is online internet gaming arcade. You can choose a good wealth spot

and energise it with water.

10. Before you start operating the business please make sure you choose an auspicious dates

for commencements and make sure the date is favourable to your birth profile lucky elements.

Instead of conventional methods to choose the dates, you can consider engaging a feng shui

master to use “qi men” or “xuan kong 玄空飞星择日 or 玄空大卦择日 to optimise the wealth

energies.

11. If you are choosing a retail shop, one side of the road is a row of shops whereas the

opposite is an empty piece of land or a park. Then the location is not suitable for general

retailing. The reason is 孤阴不长，独阳不生 in feng shui it means sole “ying” or “yang”

energies does not grow and prosper. In the above illustration, the road where the shops are

“yang” energies, the opposite of the road facing a garden are “yin” energies. The only chance

to survive in the retailing business is to have a “specialise” shop for e.g. a specialty restaurant,

gaming internet cafe , a designer boutique but not a generic retailing shop.

12. Do not choose a retail shop that is facing a tree or even worse a dying tree. This affect not

only the prosperity of the business but impedes the health of your workers.

12. Do not choose a the shop that is facing a street light, “street light” is fire element it will

disrupt the harmonious qi and creates a “quarrelsome” environment. Tempers will flare for no

reasons, as for health it will affect the skin, heart, eyes and even fire hazard.

13. If yours is a 2-storey shop and your window is facing the “head of street light”, in feng shui

is like facing a snake head. Health wise it will cause skin problems or even stroke. The feng

shui cure is have an “eagle caricature” facing the “snake head”.

14. Lastly if not the most important choose a business that is not only suitable to your bazi 5

elements but it should be going with the latest trend and in demand. For instance most people

do not rent a a video right now, they go online and watch a movie.

15. If the shop frontage is slightly narrower than the back chances of wealth is better than a

large frontage and narror back end of the shop. The frontage and back equal in size is alright

in business feng shui.

16. Check out with your existing feng shui master and ask him to help you with a shop that

possess “strong wealth” destiny matching both “forms” and “energies”. Choose one that is

suitable to your 5 elements by taking the orientations of the shop sitting and facing directions.