Landyn was having a clearance sale at his first business. He and his wife Raenia were closing it down. The opening of his new business was about one week away. He decided that today was the last day. He would be cleaning up the empty business once the clearance sale ended at 5:00pm.
Raenia was at the register. “Ten minutes to go!” she said.
Landyn was resting on a chair at the end of the counter. The store was almost empty of merchandise. One row of shelves were all that there was left. The rear end of the store was empty and the refrigerators were turned off.
They sold all of the cigarettes and all of the liquor, all of the lighters, pretty much everything behind the counter. Everything was at reduced price, some of the items were half off, Landyn’s highest discount. He limited the number of people permitted within the store because there were so many people that morning waiting. People lined up outside to get in and buy up all the deals. The register was ringing continually till noon. They didn't ever get that many customers when the merchandise was regular price, not at all since opening the store in 1994.
Finally Raenia said, “Five o'clock!” she walked to the end of the counter and smooched Landyn on the cheek then went to lock the door. She turned off the sign light and then said, “Goodbye convenience store.”
Landyn said, “I'm beat, let's worry about clean up tomorrow. I am ready to eat dinner, starving.”
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The next day Landyn decided to clean up the store on his own, leaving Raenia at home to finish house chores. He wanted to get the store cleaned up before sunset. He knew he could.
He arrived at sunrise and first cleared the shelves off, placing the last of the items carefully in boxes then stacked the boxes on a dolly, wheeling the dolly out to his dusty rusty truck and loading them into the truck bed under the canopy.
All the cleaning supplies were already inside the store. He returned, locking the doors then got to work. He finished the cleaning well before sunset and then cleared out the small room with the safe and the desk and the camera monitoring system.
He moved all the appliances and furniture that he would need to remove before giving up the lease into an area not far away from the main entrance to make it easy for the movers to get in and get out. They charge by the hour and he wanted to keep within a budget.
Cleaning the empty store was a lot easier and quicker than he thought it was going to be. He was happy to return to the house around 4:00pm and take sunday off because it was saturday.
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A week later Landyn and Raenia opened their new store. Named, “L&R Industrial Supplies” they were very satisfied that their plans went precisely as they wanted. They were tired of the convenience store nonsense. They were leasing the convenience store property and saving at the same time. Twenty years of that dedication paid off, they reached their business goals. They owned their new property, title and deed. Great location. Great demand. They owed it to themselves and now the debt was settled.
They hired one of their nephews to help on the weekends. He worked hard with the restocking and did a lot of lifting and the weekly clean up. They knew that a few years down the road they could hire a couple more trusted people when they decided to retire and manage the store remotely. Now though, this here was a Godsend. No more convenience stores.