Brick-and-mortar, pop-ups, specialty retail, vintage and resale.
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Two years of vintage pop ups, mostly weekend markets, where a good Saturday was around $2,800 and a bad one was $1,100. I took that average, found a cheap storefront on a side street two blocks off…
I am still at my job and my validation method for the tea and coffee shop is embarrassingly analogue. Six Saturdays now, three candidate blocks, a clipboard and a phone timer. I count people walking…
For two years of pop ups I ran on a phone card reader and a notebook, and that was fine when everything fit in a van. In a store with about nine hundred items it stopped being fine in roughly week…