From Flea Market To 3 Locations

I won’t reveal any names because I didn’ t get their permission, but on my travels this week, I came across
a particularly interesting home business story from Western North Carolina.

If you’re familiar with many homeschooling families, you see a trend… larger than 2.1 children per family and the desire to make extra money from home.

That’s this family I met… their daughter – home schooled to the 12th grade – tested out of her first two years of college and is starting as a junior.

One way the family used to earn money was setting up at flea markets selling “salvaged grocery items”… things that were within a few months of their expiration dates that the big stores dumped for pennies on the market.

It was easy for him to find these items, buy them up cheap, and resell them at great discounts at the flea markets.

Then another door opened.

Working on an all cash basis, his grocery salvage contacts led him to a new niche… discount “natural” foods and supplements. Gluten free, salt free, high this, low that, you name it, “all natural” food, supplements, even natural tooth paste and shampoo. Call it “Big Lots” on a health binge.

And all within a few months of expiration with big stores hoping to unload tractor trailer loads fast.

Finding cheap space in a warehouse district in Western North Carolina, the store opened and sells everything at a minimum of 30% less than suggested retail price…sometimes less.

And none of it ever “expires” on the shelf.

Now he’s up to 3 locations and considering a fourth.

He does NO PAID ADVERTISING … it’s all word of mouth.

This small family empire began with the skills learned as he worked from home.

Where can your business go?