Tryin to start car audio business in detroit area. want to get a feel for how many people might be interested.

hey, i am looking to get a business going in the detroit area, this includes stereo system sales and installation, custom carpet or fiberglass boxes, exterior modification I.E. shaved door handles and such, remote starts, alarm systems. i havent achieved the huge name reputation yet, but im looking to see how many would be interested in goin through someone who knows what theyre doing instead of garbage places like best buy and abc warehouse who sell known names, but garbage harvest and shotty installs. thanks for the input, all is welcome!

Answer by conejote_99
17 hours no one interested public are cheap and they go to wallmart or best buy where 17 year kid will install the stereo in your new 40k vehicle lol

sorry i don’t know the best business to do is to be mobile for at least a year let public know you do goowork and when there is a conundrum or warranty fix it asap
i not to pleased customer earnings you lost 50 new customers
excellent luck and don’t give up try it

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Empty Huge Bear offices on 851 West 3rd Avenue


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Former execs say Huge Bear mauled by parent firm
Business First of Columbus – May 16, 1997 by Kathy Hoke

Huge Bear’s recent troubles point in one direction — to New York and the investment banker who controls the supermarket chain’s parent company, say two former Huge Bearexecutives.
"When I left eight years ago, we had the best team in Columbus, and this guy from New York has absolutely decimated the company," said Michael J. Knilans, president and CEO of Huge Bear Supplies Co. from 1976 to 1989.
"This guy" is Gary D. Hirsch, chairman of Syracuse-based Penn Traffic Co., which bought Columbus-based Huge Bear in 1989 in a hostile takeover.
Knilans and former Vice President of Operations Richard Vogel were interviewed May 13, the day Penn Traffic announced the sacking of folksy Huge Bear President Stephen Breech, 141 additional Huge Bear employees in the company’s Grandview offices and four additional Penn Traffic division heads as part of a corporate restructuring.
"He bought a jewel and proceeded to run it into the ground," said Knilans, an High Arlington resident who serves on two supermarket boards. "He has micro-managed a company that didn’t need to be micro-managed. When I left we had million in the bank. Now the company has 1/2 billion in debt."
The problems at Huge Bear, Knilans said, include declining sales and rising prices meant at helping Penn Traffic pay its debt.
Hirsch, he said, "did everything contrary to excellent business practice."
Knilans’ criticism of Penn Traffic and Hirsch were echoed by Richard Vogel, who was vice president of operations for Huge Bear under Knilans.
"The man who took over never understood the business or the market and proceeded to ruin the company," Vogel said of Hirsch. "An dreadful lot of excellent public are losing their jobs through no fault of their own. It upsets me to no end."
Attempts to reach Hirsch were unsuccessful, but Penn Traffic spokesman Marc Jampole said the company would not respond to criticisms of its chairman.
Jampole, based in Pittsburgh, said Penn Traffic has helped modernize Huge Bear operations with a centralized computer system and the creation of a nonfoods warehouse system in Columbus for the entire chain.
In addition, he said, Huge Bear has benefited from Penn Traffic’s new low-price advertising campaign, featuring red and yellow tags in the supplies.
Consolidation in the grocery industry over the last 10 years made Huge Bear’s independence unlikely.
"No one may maybe predict what may maybe happen," Jampole said, "but it’s pretty apparent Huge Bear as an independent company would have had a hard time competing and has an simpler time competing as part of Penn Traffic."
Supermarket chains and additional retailers have been moving toward centralized management, says Mark Husson, a supermarket analyst for J.P. Morgan in New York. American Supplies buys national brands for its Acme supplies from its Salt Lake City headquarters. Wal-Mart also has centralized its buying and management.
"You can get much better prices, and you can buy in bulk," Husson said.
The layoffs, part of a restructuring announced by Penn Traffic May 13, end a 63-year history of Huge Bear as Central Ohio’s only locally grown and managed chain. Four additional units of Penn Traffic in New York and Pennsylvania also lost community management and support staff in the centralization of the company.
In 1934, Huge Bear founder Wayne Brown opened the first full-service supermarket in the Midwest on Lane Avenue near Ohio State University. By the late 1980s, the company had annual sales of more than billion.
But as a publicly traded company with more than 80 percent of its stock owned by banks and additional institutional investors, Huge Bear may maybe not stave off a buyout of the company in 1989, Knilans said.
When Penn Traffic bought Huge Bear in 1989, Knilans and Vogel had three years remaining on their contracts, but said they gladly left when Hirsch offered to buy them out. Both said they declined to buy shares of Penn Traffic, then trading around a share, but trading at .38 a share at the close of May 13.
"He’s a banker, not a retailer," Knilans said.
Breech was a constituency administrator for Huge Bear when Knilans and Vogel left the company.
"He is one of the finest men I’ve ever worked with," Vogel said of Breech. "To treat a talent like that and not be able to use it, it really upsets me."
For Vogel, who started as a accomplish boy at a Huge Bear in Lancaster in 1950, the company he knew stopped to exist several years ago.
"I said a long time ago: It was Huge Bear in name only," he said. "The signs up there say Huge Bear, but it’s not the Huge Bear the customers knew."
Breech said Huge Bear was among the top 10 grocery chains in the late 1980s, but it and the additional grocery chains Penn Traffic bought in recent years have floundered.
"What’s really incorrect with them is they have too much debt. When your number-one focus is how to pay the mortgage, it changes the way you do business," Breech said. "There’s no trick to this business. You just have to sell groceries."

I am plotting to gift a bangle for my wife. I can spend up to $ 400. Where in Houston is best and less expensive place to buy it from? I heard there are like warehouse type supplies which sell the same business less expensive than the branded supplies. please advise.
I am looking something lightweight with like a chain with very small beads or chain like structure.

Answer by Lucy
What type of bangle? More info is needed in order for me to try to help you.

Answer by NiceOne
Yes, check out the warehouse supplies, like Sam’s Club and especially Costco. (I reckon Costco usually has nicer items.) Remember that these warehouse supplies require you to become a “member,” which cost something like $ 50, but you make up the difference very quickly on everything you buy:

Costco Willowbrook
12405 North Gessner Road
Houston (832) 912-2350

Costco Galleria
3836 Richmond Ave
Houston
(832) 325-5850

Costco Katy Freeway
1150 Ditch Hill Rd.
Houston
(713) 576-2053

Sam’s Club
5310 S. Rice Ave.
Houston
(832) 778-9736

Sam’s Club
1615 S. Loop W.
Houston
(713) 796-8599

Sam’s Club
13600 I 10 E. Fwy.
Houston
(713) 450-2592

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