Re: Investment for geek?

not sure of the address. it's a 1/2 block down cynthia st, coming north off
of ave C. middle of the stripmall behind the sandman hotel.

I've never called em or looked it up, I was just told where it was a few
years ago.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Ruth Marlene Friesen <ruthesroses@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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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