We’ve talked with lots of retailers over the years: Some who have taken over stores from their parents; some who bought a location from a previous owner; some who left one operation to open another; some were installers and wanted to get off their knees, and some others who were mill reps and got tired of moving around.
But, I have never, however, come across someone who was a successful executive in another industry, an industry totally unrelated to flooring, and saw floor covering as an attractive alternative and then made the jump and opened his own dealership.