What’s a small business with a physical storefront that would succeed in a small white town that prefers to shop local, and has a large population of trade workers. Anything from food to power tools. Who’s seen anything that surprised them with their success and sustainability?
>a large population of trade workers
My partner and I built a nice business crafting bespoke muffins which are very popular with the local trade workers. This is in Portland, so it might not apply everywhere.
>Partner
So your homosexual lover?
I would say any food item category that makes for an easy lunch. Bagel/sandwich place. DO NOT FRANCHISE.
Depending on your county a liquor store might be better.
Have like a hardware store/diner combo. I'm sure there could be some clever name for it but I'm not smart enough to think of one
The Besto's Diner
>Drill'n Fill'n
>Snackhammers
That's all I've got.
Whatever you do, don't rent a place especially if you have a business with a low cart value. Your overhead will already be high with insurance and utilities, adding rent to that will increase your failure chances. Find a distressed commercial space to purchase, fix it up and then attempt your business. If you fail, just become a landlord. I'd also stay away from anything food or beverage. They have an extremely high failure rate. Maybe do a haircut place and just rent the chairs to stylists, that way you can focus all of your time on marketing, which will increase your chances. If you find yourself actually, physically delivering the product or service, you are probably doing it wrong.
>Maybe do a haircut place and just rent the chairs to stylists
Just don't hire whichever barber did this.
Wesley should have rocked that doo on ST:TNG
He went with this hairstyle instead.
There's a hardware liquidator in our small 97%+ white town that does insane amounts of business. I'm going to guess he's profitable because they've been open since 2019 and made it through the pandemic. The place is always busy thought I don't quite get it as the prices aren't all that great considering it's liquidation stuff. Maybe the stuff pros use are a better deal and I just don't know it because I'm a hobbyist.
Forgot to attach the photo. Probably a subconscious decision to help forget it exists.
That pool was made by the Q trying to trap wesley in there again.
That is the most lesbian haircut I've ever seen...
The international fashion police have this as one of their top 10 most heinous crimes and the hairdresser responsible is currently on their most wanted list. If you have any information about this, please contact Fashion Interpol. Information leading to an arrest gives a reward of up to ten thousand dollars.
never making it into the hitlerjugend with that shit
A business with best chance of success opens up to fill an identified need. Businesses that fail tend to ones where the proprietor says "I want to open up a ________." and hope people show up. If you've not done that basic research how would anyone here be able to help?
>do research but dont ask questions looking for answers
Many such cases
>Do research regarding your area specifically, which strangers on the internet will have no clue about
We have no idea what kind of businesses already operate in OPs town. That would be a big help. Then there's also the intangibles. I live in a town similar to what OPs describing and there no hardware store because the local that ran it died. A few out of towners have tried to run it but no one wants to buy from a carpetbagger and no one in the town has the money or sense to run it
> I live in a town similar to what OPs describing and there no hardware store because the local that ran it died. A few out of towners have tried to run it but no one wants to buy from a carpetbagger and no one in the town has the money or sense to run it
Sounds like information OP could use. As in research.
>claim you are italian
>speak in super mario accent
>home made gelato and espresso
>$6 a scoop/cup
Pallet liquidations. thats what the amish or amish adjacent usually do. just target hardware store stuff. you can also supplement it with cases of tools from china for consumables to build up a rapport.
amish liquidators salvage grocery
Shetlers out of Cabool, MO (salvage grocery focus, several locations. W/a second place w just home furnishings.)
Bin Drop out of Texas (several locations), returns and discontinued.
Goes by many other names nationwide. Treasure Chest, Treasure Trove etc. It's difficult to find them with a category search on Google Maps, because there isn't a defined category for them.
Salvage branches into three different types of business: Food, obviously, is one. This will endear you to the locals, if you are not pricing moronic rates for the items. Figure 50% of retail. You can't provide consistent items through salvage like milk, butter. Some items you'll have to get at normal price, and price low to be able to consistently stock them. If people can make one grocery shopping trip... Also retail space. Stores seem to do well when they have low overhead and a lot of floor space for a variety of products.
The other two types are home furnishings, and gaylord bins (returns and discontinued) from amazon, overstock etc. Gaylords and grocery are going to generate more traffic/volume.
play cafe. parents come, hang out, kids play. look up Glow Worm in Louisville. you pay ten bucks for a 1.5 hour time slot, 16 kids max per session. Astonishingly successful, they're about to open their third location.
We have that exact thing. It even serves alcoholic drinks at 10am for stressed parents kek
>It even serves alcoholic drinks at 10am
If someone is drinking at 10 am, they just might be an alcoholic.
i dunno, christmas morning with a few bloody marys in me and the wife while the kids went nuts was pretty damn relaxing
your big expense is probably going to be insurance from having all those little kids, but check out this photo, the startup cost is relatively low in terms of furnishing. this place does have a built-in coffee shop / bakery, and parents would come without that (but in lower numbers), but you need to have food of some kind available. kids like snacks. and you can charge $1.50 for a fifty-cent snack pack of goldfish
the type of customer you want, which is young ~~*educated*~~ people with some disposable income, are (today) significantly anti-ipad and much more supportive of Montessori-style, open-ended play with simple wooden toys and stuff for playing pretend, not complex/expensive noisy electronic toys. everything in this picture is pretty simple wooden stuff. i can tell you from personal experience that kids go fricking nuts for it and have so much fun there.
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I dig that asbestos ceiling. Good for kids playing under.
anon, spray foam insulation, it's a converted drafty warehouse
I dig that banned, offgassing, polyurethane foam ceiling. Good for kids playing under.
Sharpening manicure/podologist instruments, plus scissors and knives. Low investment, doesn't require much space, can be done from home and it's almost 100% profit margin.
Storage. It's always storage. Want to make money? Build an indoor storage lot. Or a sound building and convert it. The excellent part about storage, is that you have zero plumbing, drains or otherwise. Minimal electricity. And people are not constantly there bothering you. Then you get to auction their shit if they don't pay.
For real. It's like renting apartments but without the tenants or maintenance.
Depending on the area, it's also a good way to land bank. The storage facility generates income until the day comes that the local property values have risen to a level that makes selling profitable. Since the cost of building the facility is low, not much is lost when it is torn down by the new owners to make way for some government subsidized mixed use development.
hate seeing these things like you wouldn’t believe, they just keep buildin em though
What if people start storing corpses or illegal drugs
There are ice cream shops popping up fricking everywhere
Hipster ones downtown and mom and pop soda counters in the rurish suburbs
They're everywhere
I can't imagine the margins are that hefty, and the overhead of refrigerated storage is probably not cheap either, but the actual preparation and employee training couldn't be simpler
Gun store is always the right answer
it's really hard to make money selling guns, dude.
Professional cuffing services. There's plenty of young men wanting to find a wife and you can do it for them. You could even get photographs and put them on a shelf with a price tag next to each.
vape store, unironically
Is that possible by itself? Thought there was a law of nature that prohibited a vape store unless it was also a cryptocurrency cash exchange and CBT shop. Might also be a requirement that at least 25% are colocated with a tattoo parlor.
>it was also a cryptocurrency cash exchange and CBT shop
do you mean wiener and Ball Torture or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
around here CBT is Cheese Burger Treat
non alcohol bars are all the rage in white peopleville
Yeah they just smoke pot instead.
> small white town that prefers to shop local
Restaurant that doesn’t season anything
>I also blame people who choose to buy from amazone vs supporting local small biz.
You blame them for not wasting time/fuel/vehicle wear driving to and from little shitbox stores with poor selections and high prices? Good local small businesses can choose to thrive. Shite ones needed to die along with malls which epitomized inefficient shopping even before Wakandazation.
My local favorite hardware store competes on customer service. Owner welcomed the Walmart behind him and the Lowes across the street (locating is always FRICKING KEY). I've shopped there 38 years. OTOH most "mom and pop" stores SUCKED. High markup, poor selection, slow order fills etc. Frick their entitlement. I use brick and mortar stores mostly for "bricks and mortar" type items. Agri Supply and farm stores have their uses.
>I'm not set on hardware and tbh I don't know the first thing about tools.
Don't mess with anything you are not already a natural expert in or close. The objective of business is profit. Take an accounting course and become great at money management because failure to control cash flow slaughters even experienced people. For example a great mechanic may hate the other work vital to making his shop pay, hence high mortality for those businesses. Use the Small Business Administration and get wise long before even deciding to start a business.
^Wisdom and the meal is easy to sell since they come apart with common cordless tools.
Anything to do with children is extremely high risk. Avoid. You'll automatically be presumed a p3d0.
^This too because every dumbass bubba competes out of their house.
^Good like anything catering to low incomes because people must eat. Probably best suggestion in thread.
>do you mean wiener and Ball Torture or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Yes.
>My local favorite hardware store competes on customer service.
That is the worst Ace Hardware in Sumter county.
So what are you going with OP? wiener and ball liquidator?
that groid is greasing up the pool.
The black chick is dropping wolf bait
>The black chick is dropping wolf bait
is that a euphemism
Appliance repair
Sharpening tools. Especially if you learn how to make a chain into the specialty ones they use for speed cutting at logger competitions.
that, or gunsmith