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Dis-Location: In a Lonely Place

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Dis-Location: In a Lonely Place

Location, location, location. The retail mantra that’s so nice, we say it thrice.

Does your store benefit from a killer location? Or maybe not so much? Or maybe not at all? Here are some signs that your store might be a bit, umm, off the beaten track.

  1. The lone tumbleweed blowing across your showroom floor.
  2. Hillary Clinton stays in your store during high terror alerts.
  3. Have to hang lunch high in the trees so bears won’t steal it.
  4. Ambient noise = vultures cawing, rattlesnakes hissing, and “city folk” whose car broke down moaning in your basement.
  5. Cable company says they’ll be by to hook you up between the hours of 1 p.m. and 2016.
  6. Your goldsmith uses nearby lava flow for metal work.
  7. While watching Mars Rover footage on TV you notice the robot approaching your front door.
  8. Your last customer was competing in the Iditarod.
  9. Sales staff is made up of Gilligan, the Skipper and Ginger.
  10. Giant hand keeps putting pieces of cheese in front of your door and dropping what seem to be huge white mice way off around the corner and in the distance.
  11. Only customer is a volleyball named “Wilson”.
  12. Store was featured on an “In Search Of …” episode.
  13. Nearest neighbors in the tornado are the roof of a barn and a flying cow.
  14. Five-year warranties on watches already expired by time customers get all the way home.

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After almost 60 years in business, Breakiron Jewelers in Erie, Pennsylvania, was closing its doors. And the store’s owner, Linda Breakiron, was ready for it. She had run the store as its sole owner since the beginning of the millennium and was looking forward to a change. Of course, she called Wilkerson. Breakiron talked to other jewelers who had used Wilkerson and was satisfied with their response. “They always had positive feedback,” she recalls. With the sales, marketing and even additional inventory that Wilkerson provided, Breakiron insists she could never have accomplished her going-out-of-business sale without Wilkerson’s help. She’s now ready for the journey ahead, but looking back, she’d be sure to recommend Wilkerson. “They just made the whole process very seamless.”

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Dis-Location: In a Lonely Place

Published

12 years ago

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Dis-Location: In a Lonely Place

Location, location, location. The retail mantra that’s so nice, we say it thrice.

Does your store benefit from a killer location? Or maybe not so much? Or maybe not at all? Here are some signs that your store might be a bit, umm, off the beaten track.

  1. The lone tumbleweed blowing across your showroom floor.
  2. Hillary Clinton stays in your store during high terror alerts.
  3. Have to hang lunch high in the trees so bears won’t steal it.
  4. Ambient noise = vultures cawing, rattlesnakes hissing, and “city folk” whose car broke down moaning in your basement.
  5. Cable company says they’ll be by to hook you up between the hours of 1 p.m. and 2016.
  6. Your goldsmith uses nearby lava flow for metal work.
  7. While watching Mars Rover footage on TV you notice the robot approaching your front door.
  8. Your last customer was competing in the Iditarod.
  9. Sales staff is made up of Gilligan, the Skipper and Ginger.
  10. Giant hand keeps putting pieces of cheese in front of your door and dropping what seem to be huge white mice way off around the corner and in the distance.
  11. Only customer is a volleyball named “Wilson”.
  12. Store was featured on an “In Search Of …” episode.
  13. Nearest neighbors in the tornado are the roof of a barn and a flying cow.
  14. Five-year warranties on watches already expired by time customers get all the way home.

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After almost 60 years in business, Breakiron Jewelers in Erie, Pennsylvania, was closing its doors. And the store’s owner, Linda Breakiron, was ready for it. She had run the store as its sole owner since the beginning of the millennium and was looking forward to a change. Of course, she called Wilkerson. Breakiron talked to other jewelers who had used Wilkerson and was satisfied with their response. “They always had positive feedback,” she recalls. With the sales, marketing and even additional inventory that Wilkerson provided, Breakiron insists she could never have accomplished her going-out-of-business sale without Wilkerson’s help. She’s now ready for the journey ahead, but looking back, she’d be sure to recommend Wilkerson. “They just made the whole process very seamless.”

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