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

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riyadh144:
Hi,
So I really miss Fry's. And I think I have a model that would make the store work in a great way and make it sustainable.
I would buy the store and turn a section of it into a maker space, where nerds can corporate with each other and help each other. Because let us be honest you can never hire nerds who know what they are talking about for retail wages.
The store would not focus on profit, I would even go further and call it a non profit. It will return our initial investment and the rest will go back into the store and the community.
All the profits made from the sales would go into buying more equipment and if high enough would go into buying other locations.

I know I am silly and probably will never happen but that is what I want.

Thanks for humoring my silly thoughts.

xrunner:
Few would go there.

It's all on the internet now - meetings, tutorials, parts, forums, live video. That's why brick and mortar is failing.

That civilization is gone with the wind.

riyadh144:
Well my argument for that would be the following, I do go to the store to be inspired for the community, to talk to people who are like minded. And by integrating a maker space in that it will enhance the sense of community. And by removing the profit motive it will drive prices down.

ataradov:
That what TechShop was. And it failed miserably.

You need to be profit motivated enough to come up with rent or payments for the place. And that's not cheap at all. And if you only buy one, then you will be limited to a fixed location. So the question is - where are you located? Why would I be even theoretically interested in buying a store across the country?

riyadh144:
Oh no I want it to be very well managed, and I want it to be profitable but for the stores own success it would mainly profit its workers. It should be a tightly run ship.

Also It can be people from the same geographical area buying their store. I might want to buy the one in Burbank but you might want to buy the one in the Bay area we can have multiple groups working on multiple ones at the same time.

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