I have never really considered this question before. Most of the shops I would like to open are part of a dead industry now and would be guaranteed to fail within days of launching. Book stores? Dead. Record stores? Dead. Used record stores might be able to hang on for a while but new release stuff? No way, dead and dead. Musical instruments stores? Dead. Hell, even Guitar Center, the biggest of the big chains is dying on the vine as we speak. Maybe I could do a vintage guitar shop, but I would never have the zillions of dollars that would be needed as up front capital to stock a whole shop with vintage guitars. That’s sort of how the used instrument economy has played out in recent years. Even shitty old guitars are worth a ton of money, just for being old.
So if I were going to open a shop of my own, what would it be? I guess I could try to go with a Stephen King’s Needful Things kinda place. You know, a curiosity/antique shop where all of the items are cursed and pre-destined for each customer so that they can suffer their own specific trauma? Something like that.
No, that wouldn’t be it. I’ll tell you what I would open. Hey customer, have you had Gastric Bypass surgery? Do you have Type 2 Diabetes and are you struggling to keep your numbers under control? Well come to my shop where we sell nothing but Sugar Free Candy.
Boom. Million, dare I say billion, dollar business plan. Sign me up, babie!
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Record stores are back! Vinyl is fashion again. 😃
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As I kid, I used to go used record shopping with friends and my brother. It was fun hunting for gold, searching for our favorite bands, or even finding new ones. Thanks for bringing back a few good memories.
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I gotta warn you though, as per sugar free chocolates, if you read the ingredients on the back, at the very bottom, it says “a negligible amount of sugar”. I said yes, that is negligence right there. I’m not diabetic but I am educated and experienced in liability law. You have no case against them. They only have to say it somewhere on the package.
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