I would sell the store. Any retail that survives the digital age will be boring places to work at like clothing stores or walmart-type places. Anything of interest to me like books, vinyl, cds, dvds, or video games aren't going to last that much longer in the retail space so it would be a pointless endeavor.
I would sell the store. Any retail that survives the digital age will be boring places to work at like clothing stores or walmart-type places. Anything of interest to me like books, vinyl, cds, dvds, or video games aren't going to last that much longer in the retail space so it would be a pointless endeavor.
So by that logic, does it only make sense to sell clothes in retail, because you can't know for sure if something's going to fit you and whether a piece of clothing is damaged online?
@H2Oyea This might not work, I can't properly reply on an iPad but oh well: I think anyone who buys clothes online is crazy so yes. How can you tell the quality of the fabric and stitching online? Or if the actual clothes are quality and not flimsy? Or if their large is the same as the larges you usually buy? Or even if the item in question looks good on your figure? Shoe shopping is probably the only reasonable clothing item purchaseable online due to fairly standardized sizes and even then it's kinda crazy.
If I owned a store it would be named "VICE" and sell nothing but women's stiletto heels and single malt scotch. I almost talked my buddy into doing it once but instead he's a third owner of UMI right downtown in the bay area by the giantbomb guys. Best Sushi you'll ever have.
Or real Cornish pasties, seeing as how I can make an amazing pasty. Seriously, what is with the pasties in London? They shouldn't be allowed to exist, especially when they say they're Cornish, all my mad.
Before a 101 people reply to me to flaunt their Playboy lifestyle, I want you to know that it was a joke, exploiting the negative stereotypes of our culture. GUFFAWWWW.
@MikkaQ: Mhmm okay, so what's boring will survive the digital age but what isn't won't.
No my point is that working or owning a clothing store is really boring compared to a store that sells media such as books, games, or movies TO ME. Physical necessities like clothes, food, housewares, or cars will always have retail space (well maybe not forever, but you get my point).
And that eventually digital distribution like steam, netflix, apple and amazon will have replaced all traditional retail methods of acquiring those, which for me means owning a store that sells those isn't the wisest of ideas if I wanted something to pass down to my children or whatever. Because they'll grow up being used to the idea that it's all there on the internet.
THOUGH you mentioned my store could be a service, in which case I'll open a blowjob store. EVERYONE loves blowjobs, I'll be a millionaire in weeks, I wonder why no one else has tried this?
If I could partake in any business endeavor with the guarantee that I will always at least be successful enough to not lose a bunch of money, I would open a combination record store and arcade.
Before a 101 people reply to me to flaunt their Playboy lifestyle, I want you to know that it was a joke, exploiting the negative stereotypes of our culture. GUFFAWWWW.
Oh i dunno, these NERDS get their game porn on the internet with mods and shit.
I would sell sex, nostalgia, and coffee. The only way I can think to do that though is throuh some froiedean mother-son/father-daughter relationship or a strip bar, or perhaps both.
This may not work to support an entire company but I was thinking yo the internet loves my little pony way to much and then i thought about how exploitative and profitable skylanders is. All I am saying Activision/Hasbro if you use this idea I totally called it.
From 1997-2002 I did own a computer store in Ontario, Canada. Sold and repaired PCs (didn't sell name brand, all built-to-order, but would repair anything). We didn't make much on the PCs we sold (maybe $50) because we had to compete with Dell, selling extended warranties is where we made our money there. Most of our profit came from our web hosting we had in the back.
Later we started a broadband ISP and started dropping DSLAMs in the rural triangle between Cornwall, Ottawa and Montreal. In 2002 Bell Canada bought us out and added our network to their Sympatico service, so that was that.
If I'm not worried about it being successful, I would sell movies, records, video games, and posters/memorabilia. It is stuff that is interesting to me, but unless you find some niche market it is hard to stay in business with something like that anymore.
I would sell pun store name ideas to other potential stores but my store would not have a pun in its name even though it would be so easy for me to make one as that's what I do for a living, it would be called The Pun Shoppe.
Well I worked in a library for two years and make bitchin' milkshakes so, books and milkshakes. It would more less just be like a regular bookstore but smaller and instead of an attached coffee shop there would be a milkshake bar.
It'd be called the Chocolate Banana Bookshop, and you can bet your ass it would unintentionally end up hipster as fuck.
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