My Trash Skill Lets Me Upgrade Common Items, So I Built the Richest Shop in Kingdom

My Trash Skill Lets Me Upgrade Common Items, So I Built the Richest Shop in the KingdomThrust into the magical kingdom of Valmark, forty-one-year-old discount store manager Felix Bauer wasn't given a legendary sword or a world-saving quest. Instead, he is appraised as a mere "Merchant" with the supposedly useless skill Minor Quality Adjustment and discarded by the king as surplus. But to a man who spent eleven years fighting cheap manufacturing, a world without quality control isn't a tragedy-it's the ultimate clearance rack.Arriving in the dying town of Groschen, Felix realizes his "negligible" skill lets him turn literal garbage into master-grade goods. With a crew of outcasts-a light-fingered orphan named Pip, a meticulous kobold named Klink, a disgraced bookkeeper named Rosa, and a broke adventurer named Dagmar-he opens Bauer & Co. His business model completely disrupts the local economy: uncompromising honesty, fixed prices, and ironclad warranties.However, fixing a rigged economy makes powerful enemies. The corrupt Merchants' Guild, led by the scheming Aldous Finch, will stop at nothing to crush his growing shop. They are about to learn that a seasoned retail manager doesn't just know how to price goods-he knows how to ruin the competition.Grab your copy of this cozy, slice-of-life LitRPG adventure about building a business empire, finding a family, and proving that nothing is junk-it's only ever mispriced.