Small Town Hobby Stores???

"John >

In a small market area you will have to cover multiple hobbies to have enough of a customer base, you can't specialize on just plastic military models or radio control. That may make initial capitalization (lots of stock) a problem. Second point is to remember that most shopping centers charge a flat rent/square foot up to a certain $$ figure of sales volume and then they start getting a percentage. You really have to have a large volume of sales to make it in an S.C. If you can find a building of acceptable size and a livable rent you are lucky. Grandad's down in Virginia is in an industrial park, which may have different rate structure than a Shopping center.

Good Luck! Bill Shuey (who got burned many years ago in a tropical fish store venture)

"John >

In a small market area you will have to cover multiple hobbies to have enough of a customer base, you can't specialize on just plastic military models or radio control. That may make initial capitalization (lots of stock) a problem. Second point is to remember that most shopping centers charge a flat rent/square foot up to a certain $$ figure of sales volume and then they start getting a percentage. You really have to have a large volume of sales to make it in an S.C. If you can find a building of acceptable size and a livable rent you are lucky. Grandad's down in Virginia is in an industrial park, which may have different rate structure than a Shopping center.

Good Luck! Bill Shuey (who got burned many years ago in a tropical fish store venture)

In article , "John

yea, don't bother wasting your time

John- I have just opened a model shop up 5 months ago. Email me and I will answer any questions you may have.

Steve Kasza Bronto Models