For many residents, a rural store is not just a place where you can make the most essential purchases. The store serves as both a place for communication and a place for obtaining the necessary information. The underdeveloped infrastructure in most villages will make such a business profitable.
It is necessary
- - premises;
- - start-up capital.
Instructions
Step 1
Solve all administrative issues. Register with the tax office of an individual entrepreneur or LLC. Check your future business with the village administration. Think about how the goods will be delivered to the store. Most often, you cannot do without personal freight transport.
Step 2
Find a room. It is hardly fashionable to call the construction of a separate building a profitable investment. In most villages, there are many abandoned premises that can be converted into a shop at minimal cost. Make sure that the store is accessible to the majority of the population. At the same time, keep in mind that some of the buyers will walk on foot, and the other part will drive up by various vehicles. Better to make an asphalt road, and in winter to ensure timely snow clearing.
Step 3
Think over the assortment. Most often in rural shops the range of goods is small. Try to fill your selling space to the maximum. In one store, offer all the essentials that the villagers may need - from groceries and household chemicals to toys and stationery. Analyze demand on an ongoing basis, taking into account the opinions of buyers. Surely they themselves will ask you to bring this or that product. Try to constantly optimize your assortment.
Step 4
If the village in which you are opening a store is near a major highway or popular holiday destinations, there will be a certain percentage of city dwellers and tourists among the shoppers. Enter into the assortment those products that they may need: bottled water, sunscreen, charcoal for the barbecue. Even if these products are not popular, you can make a higher mark-up on them.
