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Who wants to buy a Fry's store with me?
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jmelson:

--- Quote from: duckduck on March 01, 2021, 06:50:07 pm ---I started my IT career working at a small computer store. I did repairs and upgrades. One of the owners said "Can you imagine being the general manger at the local Fry's store: 'Oh no! Oh no! We only sold US$100,000 today!' "

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If a single Fry's store EVER sold 100K in a single DAY, I'd be astounded!  Some of our larger chain grocery stores might actually hit that volume per store.  No doubt Wal Mart does.  But, FRY's?  I doubt it.

Jon
penfold:
The maker space could business model is a bit flawed commercially for most... but...
Consider from the perspective of a freelancer/consultant, the value of somewhere (maybe with one or two skilled technicians) to handle some of the "highly valuable in terms of presentation to customer but not an ultimate deliverable" stuff like simple machining jobs, laser cutting acrylic front panels or enclosure sides, little test fixtures and stuff like that... maybe add some pre-compliance EMC gear if it takes off...
...surely that could be worth $300 a month to enough people locally that it could add some backbone to any other sales model or evening/weekend maker space geared around training individuals and leveraging some lower cost labour in doing some of these tasks,
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