Investment for geek?

 
Anyone wanna buy a store? Seriously, the owner of E P Supply in the north
end is desperate to retire before running the store puts him in his grave.
At 80 yrs old who can blame him? But saskatoon NEEDS this shop, really
does. Have you been there? It's an amazing place! Everything anyone ever
needed in the way of electronic parts from LEDs to chips to breadboards to
kits to wire to crimpers to screw drivers and ICs. It's amazing in there!
I wish I'd known about it years ago, especially when circuit city bought out
radio shack and ruined the inventory.
Well the guy says he's got a quarter million in inventory but he'll sell the
business for half that and even stay on for a few months to train the new
owner if he can only get someone. He says it'd be a good 2nd business (he
was a farmer) or business for a person looking to retire from a more
strenuous field. I was in there getting an obscure power jack for a weird
electronic musical instrument. I sure hope he finds someone willing to run
the store, not just buy him out and auction off the contents!
He started the business in 1953 and says back then there was only about a
1,000 items in inventory, but now it's around a million! He says you need a
good memory. From what I can see, you also need to enjoy counting,
tinkering, sorting, and being surrounded by little drawers of promising
parts and coping with geeks. Oh, and a good inventory software program
wouldn't hurt. He says the software he was using got bought out by a larger
company and he couldn't get service for it anymore so the computer sits
useless as he works through catalogues and hand-writes the invoices.
I told him I'd put the word out among those geeks I could find locally
(thinking of this list) in the hopes that someone with the resources would
get intrigued or someone here knows someone who'd be right for this
opportunity. I wish I was!
Received on Tue Apr 8 23:33:15 2008