Sunday, March 1, 2009
The candy shop
One summer when I was around 11 0r 12 my friends and I set up a candy store in the back of my dad's pickup truck. We had a couple friends across the street who were twin girls and another girl next door who was my age. We went to the store (quite a ways away ) and bought some candy bars for 5 cents each. We had pooled our money together to do this. We were old enough to go to the store but a lot of kids in the neighborhood were not. We sold those candy bars for 10cents each! Now that is a profit. We paid ourselves back for our inverstment, and to us we made a fortune which in reality was about 50 cents or so. One might have wondered about our tactics but the buyers mothers knew we were selling them for a dime and gave them the money. We thought were really quite the business people. I think so anyway!
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I forgot to mention that we ate up some of our inventory.
ReplyDeleteYou were not eating the inventory: it was quality control!
ReplyDeleteAbout 4 times a year, some new group of little kids sets up a lemonade stand in our neighborhood. It is amazing how these traditions survive. Funnier still is the number of adults who stop and seems almost giddy to buy from them. I am guessing it has more to do with their own childhood memories than it is to quench thirst.
Now see, I would never have thought of it as quality control!
ReplyDeleteSince having kids, and because mine have done many a lemonade stand, I will not pass up a stand without stopping. Same would go for a little kid selling candy out of the back of her daddy's truck. Just doing my part to help the free world economy...
ReplyDeleteI think kids with lemonade stands are so adorable! Although we don't see many of them down this way, when ever there is one I always try & stop.
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