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Business Type: Mini Convenience Store
Industry: Retail
Minimum Cash Requirement: $50k
Total Start-up Investment (cash plus financing): $185k
Minimum Net Worth: $200k
Business Location: Store Front
Market Class: Business to Consumer/Business to Business
Business Model: Owner-Operator

Concept Overview

This concept's mini-convenience stores are a welcome sight wherever people are shopping, working or traveling.  For consumers, this concept's store is where they can buy everyday necessities or refreshments to keep them going. For those who want a business of their own, this franchise is an opportunity to participate in the fast-moving growing convenience store market.  For developers and owners of retail and office complexes, this concept offers a way to optimize the return on small or difficult-to-lease space.

This concept fills a real need -- for both shoppers and mall employees.  They offers them a place to buy those items that can't be found anywhere else in the mall.  As well as a welcome spot to just take a break ... from the shopping or the job.  The store is where people can pop in for a soft drink or bag of chips, get a pack of cigarettes or buy a needed drug store item.  Maybe find a novelty gift item for the kids.  The franchisees find that the high traffic location and open store design attract mall shoppers who just need some directions to a certain store ... and who often buy something while they're there.  Some stores even have a news channel running continuously to a TV set to attract passers-by.  The sales opportunity is continuous.  Not only when mall traffic is high, but from all those mall employees who may be there 40 hours a week.  The mini-convenience stores are available for malls and most populated high traffic areas.

The advantages of one of today's fastest growing retailing opportunities include:

  • High-traffic locations
  • Low labor requirements
  • Captive customer base
  • Year-round sales continuity
  • Popular consumer products and brands
  • Customizable selection
  • Flexible store design
  • Lively, eye-catching graphics
  • Timely sales reporting

This is an ideal franchise for any high traffic location:

  • Shopping malls
  • Hotels
  • Office buildings
  • Urban storefronts
  • Airports
  • Train stations
  • Highway fuel and rest stops
  • College campuses

This concept's stores sells a wide choice of everyday necessities:

  • Soda, coffee and other beverages
  • Newspapers
  • Snacks, candy and gum
  • Cigarettes and cigars
  • Over-the-counter remedies
  • Souvenirs and gifts
  • Office and desk supplies
  • Lottery tickets
  • Fax and copy service
  • With well-known brand names.

In every product category, Street Corner has the national brands that people look for. And each store owner can add to the basic product line to satisfy regional tastes and market trends.

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