Re: Investment for geek?

Never heard of this place. Can't find it in the phone
book. Can you give us an address?

--- annrkiszt <annrkiszt@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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!
>
>
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Received on Fri Apr 11 14:44:11 2008