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Okay, this Ball of the Day idea scares me!
Back in 1967 I tried to rent a small storefront half a block uphill from Superior Street, the main drag in Duluth, MN to open a store that only sold spherical goods. It just seemed obvious to me that people would prefer to shop for items based on physical shape?
The store was going to be called, not surprisingly, The Sphere Shop - "For All Your Spherical Needs". Items for sale would have included such things as globes, oranges, marbles, bb's, balloons and of course balls of all types except foot.
This was back before franchising was popular, but I envisioned not only horizontal expansion, with branches in other cities, but vertical expansion into The Cube Store, Pyramid Place, Icosohadral Village, .... the possibilities were endless!
Financing was a problem though. Banks and financial people are all so two-dimensional!
SB (currrently working on a plan for 4th Dimension Based shopping)(or is that what eBay already does?)
Okay, this Ball of the Day idea scares me!
Back in 1967 I tried to rent a small storefront half a block uphill from Superior Street, the main drag in Duluth, MN to open a store that only sold spherical goods. It just seemed obvious to me that people would prefer to shop for items based on physical shape?
The store was going to be called, not surprisingly, The Sphere Shop - "For All Your Spherical Needs". Items for sale would have included such things as globes, oranges, marbles, bb's, balloons and of course balls of all types except foot.
This was back before franchising was popular, but I envisioned not only horizontal expansion, with branches in other cities, but vertical expansion into The Cube Store, Pyramid Place, Icosohadral Village, .... the possibilities were endless!
Financing was a problem though. Banks and financial people are all so two-dimensional!
SB (currrently working on a plan for 4th Dimension Based shopping)(or is that what eBay already does?)
Posted by: | January 20, 2008 at 11:15 AM