Opening a Storefront

[Purplecat]

Wish I had some advice to add, but I wish you luck and lots of customers! 😀

[Watergazer]

Thanks for all the advice guys! I’m sorry not to reply sooner but my email didn’t tell me I had replies for some reason.

I’ve been looking into stuff around here and taking advice where I could, and have been speaking to others who already own stores, and one guy in particular who’s giving up Windstones. Pretty much the outlook for the store I would want to open is grim. While there are few and far between stores offering gifts and hobby supplies, it seems there’s just not enough draw for it. We have a mall about 45 minutes away where there are larger named stores like Hallmark and what-have-you, and people go out there, not the town mall or smaller town stores. And even so, gift-type stuff doesn’t seem to be selling unless it is sports-related….so I gather. If it’s sports it flies pretty easy but if it’s anything else, even Precious Moments and classic names like that…turnaround is bad.

I spoke to one guy who owned a storefront and then decided to open a store out of his garage instead so as not to deal with the rents etc. Apparently he was able to classify his garage as a storefront and every couple days he’d open it and sell things from it in person and he made great profit that way…but again, all sports-related stuff.

The research so far looks really bad…it’s a real bummer. While I think I would have what it takes in heart to run a store, even with classes I probably wouldn’t have all the necessary know-how or support from friends like I’d surely need. Rents aren’t too awfully bad in the mall by me but then you’d only expect to see a handfull of customers a day…not enough…almost like you’d have to rely on Christmas sales. So I guess there’s a good reason why there aren’t any stores like the kind I want to open around here…they all tried it and flopped.

Bummer man.

[Alyssa]

It is because Snap took that option off for all of them. If you want to receive a update for a topic then you have to click on the notify me when you post a reply.

That is a bummer that it looks like you wont be able to open a store. It looks like I will have to do some more reasearch here and see if it will work.

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