Question of the Day - June 28

Greetings! Last Tuesday of June! 









 

If you were to own a shop, what would you like to specialize and sell?

For myself, it would either be a dance store, pet store or a tea place. Or a bookstore. Or a place where you can by all sorts of perfumes   a military shop would be neat too. And I have a friend who always fancied the idea of a hot sauce store (Granted, someone else beat him to it recently in our area!).
 

A small bakery, just a cookie shop really. Nothing elaborate, no decorating cakes or anything like that. Just a cookie shop, with some pastries perhaps.  Maybe a bit of coffee and tea.

This isn't a shop, but I always thought I'd enjoy running a B & B. Think of the breakfasts I could make!

Great question!  I would love to own a little shop of vintage cat items ( that I would have carefully selected, that would be all the fun)!  Vintage cat figurines and vintage postcards, advertisements, jewelry, etc. I would display them by decade, starting around 1910's (cats well-revered in postcards then) and probably up through the 1960's.  (Lots of cat figurines in 50's and 60's).  I would also have a section displaying famous people's attitudes (love of cats). 

At a shop next door, I would like to have a little museum of cloth production in America through the earliest until now.  Virtually no fabric is made in the US now which is very sad for me.

Have a happy Tuesday everyone!!! 

I wouldn't have a shop Id have a little club where lonely people could meet up each week and play games, meet new people and have a bit of lunch. Id have a little book/dvd library and people could lend books and dvds. The main purpose would be that lonely people would meet new people and make friends, and it would give them something to look forward to each week.
But to answer the actual question id have cat charity shop. I wouldnt be trusted to have a sweet shop

Probably a jewellery and other crafts shops, where I could sell my own jewellery....and other things I make from time to time (sun catchers, dreamcatchers, ornaments, simple bags.....and of course cat toys and doggy jumpers :heart3: ). It would also sell crafting materials etc related to the things I made.

Probably a coffee and tea shop.   I would have a small area that served coffee and tea along with a retail area.  I would have many  different loose leaf teas.  I would also have coffee beans from different parts of the world and different roasts.  I would also have a small assortment of tea pots and different manual systems for making coffee.

I know it wouldn't make any money, probably would be lucky if I just broke even, so I would have to have a 'day job'.

Not sure I'd want any kind of store but, running a B&B was something I thought about a while ago. My ex and I even looked at tome properties but in the end felt we weren't quite up to it.

If I could open a shop it would be a troll beads store cause I love them! I would also have pet themed coffee mugs and exotic tea & coffees. :nod:
Maybe a cat rescue on one side of the room if it was accommodating. I like affliction tee shirts so maybe some of those. Crystals & wind chimes for sale.

I can't make up my mind so I listed the three I would pick=one of them of course but I couldn't decide on one.

I would have a used bookstore   I would enjoy hunting for books that people are looking for. I enjoy reading and have broadened my reading exposure.

I also love food and maybe I would have a restaurant. I tend to like savory flavorful creole/southern taste and getting tired of everyone having chicken fingers and fries. I love trying different types of food-creole-Indian-Mediterranean-English/French-German. I tend to think we as Americans are getting boring when it comes to food. So it would be one of these above-but probably more of a book store.

I like exercise too and that seems to be quite the money maker lately-small simple type gyms geared for specific types of exercise-I would have to get a bachelors in exercise but that something else I have been thinking about...I love learning new things about the body and how to help it get more efficient. I wonder if a small co-op type gym would be a better fit for those who like smaller crowds rather than the big box gym?

I cant make up my mind...

foxxycat said:

 
I can't make up my mind so I listed the three I would pick=one of them of course but I couldn't decide on one.

I would have a used bookstore   I would enjoy hunting for books that people are looking for. I enjoy reading and have broadened my reading exposure.

I also love food and maybe I would have a restaurant. I tend to like savory flavorful creole/southern taste and getting tired of everyone having chicken fingers and fries. I love trying different types of food-creole-Indian-Mediterranean-English/French-German. I tend to think we as Americans are getting boring when it comes to food. So it would be one of these above-but probably more of a book store.

I like exercise too and that seems to be quite the money maker lately-small simple type gyms geared for specific types of exercise-I would have to get a bachelors in exercise but that something else I have been thinking about...I love learning new things about the body and how to help it get more efficient. I wonder if a small co-op type gym would be a better fit for those who like smaller crowds rather than the big box gym?

I cant make up my mind...

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A gym that not only is smaller but also caters to people who are a little older and not in real good shape.  Many gyms are very intimidating to anyone who isn't young with the very toned 'hard body'.

i think i'd own/run a computer and computer-related electronic products store.

OH boy...Do I have to pick just one?

FIRST...a WIccan/Pagan supplies and book store.  I would name it "The Laughing Cat," and the logo would be a little cat with it's mouth opened, laughing, next to a cauldron.

Second, In college towns, a delivery only Chinese food place, called "Rickshaw's, Chinese on Wheels"

Third,  a cab company with a fleet of PT Cruisers, called Cruiser Cabs...wifi enabled, baskets of fruit for customers.

Forth, and just for silliness, a salon named Curl Up and Dye.

But the first one, I really want.

Denice, maybe you and I should go in together! Your coffee and teas and my cookies!

A few years ago, I was talking with 2 other women about opening a cookie shop. Our town no longer has a decent bakery at all and I know it would do well. Again, nothing exotic, some cookies, a couple tables for tea or coffee and for people to lounge a bit to enjoy dunking a few cookies. A little place to relax.

I want to just stay in the back and bake. One GF, who is very out-going, but can't bake to save her life , would love to be the cashier out front. She would help to serve, run the cash, etc. The other GF wants to have a small variety of tea cups and other accessories, maybe some baskets, perhaps do a small selection of cookies in gift baskets. We are in a college town and I really think it would work. They were willing to let me name our little cookie store; I didn't care what it was called, as long as it had something to do with cats. And use some cat decor inside. (And I could always make Cat Tongue cookies....yes, there really is a cat tongue cookie!)

Another idea was to do a cookie of the month for college students. The parents could buy 13 (a baker's dozen) of whatever the specialty was that month for their college student. The cookies could either be delivered or even mailed. These would not be little dainty cookies, but cookies that are big and filling and that taste wonderful. (One of my GFs, the out-going one who can't bake, said she thought she and I should do a home business with cookies, but I knew that the inspector would shut me down fast.....six cats in the house? No way would that be acceptable.)

The problem is that you need money to make money. Rents here are so high that you need to be rich even to start something. And while we had the ideas, we didn't have the capital to rent a store front in town and then convert part of it to a kitchen, etc. And we'd have to make a small fortune in order to pay three of us (I kind of thought two people would be enough to make it worth until we got established.) 

I can bake my heart out if I have to and I love making cookies. Just throw a CD on in the kitchen and let me go!

A shop that sold art and craft supplies. I'd like to have one floor of the shop fitted out as a potter's studio so I could make things, one floor as a gallery to show and sell all the stuff I make and another floor that sold all the supplies. Maybe I'd do pottery courses so that people could come in and try making things for themselves. It would be nice to have a courtyard so that we could do outdoor raku firings.

@Denice  @Winchester  we should have our shops in the same building! We could share the courtyard so your customers could enjoy their tea and cookies outside on warm days. I could make all the mugs.