Store Meta Question

Here is where proposed ideas for the future of the store. In other words, How Should The Store Grow?

Current Planned Improvements Timeline

• Before Christmas (date pending) - Floors redone, shelving replaced with either wire racks or custom shelving a la shop people.

Boutique Thrift Store

Make the thrift store into a boutique. Reasons for doing this: Make more money per transaction. Make the store more appealing so people are more comfortable spending larger sums of money on stuff.

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Multiple Locations

Having more locations has one obvious benefit: We will have more customers to sell stuff to. This is not yet possible because we can't keep stuff stocked in out current store that people really want.

• Satellites with same basic stock
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• Satellites with a different stock
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• Considerations for a store/drop-off site (this might be better as a separate page if it seems like we are going this direction)

Two Different Stores

Perhaps using Goodwill as a model. That is, a "retail" store and a "bins" store. There are two reasons to do this 1) Increase reuse and 2) separate "bins"-style customers from "retail"-style customers (this also means separating parts geeks from whole-system buyers).

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Brainstorming Impact of the Weirdness

The weirdness will have an unknown effect on the size and composition of our stream. Here are some possibilities:

• Size of stream goes up, quality goes down (more stuff that no one wants)
• Size goes up, quality goes up
• Size mainly unchanged, quality goes up
• Size mainly unchanged, quality goes down
• Size goes down, quality goes up
• Size goes down, quality goes down