I once owned a 'buy-sell' store in Portland, Oregon that included jewelry and the occasional gun. But we didn't have a pawn license and we were a much smaller operation than the Lucky-R of my story.
So there's lots I need to know about Texas pawn store law, business operations and day-to-day activities. For example-
- Size (sq. ft.)?
- Space allocation between sales & operations/storage
- Firearms-
- Rifles/shotguns vs handguns
- How secured when store closed (locked 'in place' vs gun safe)
- How old employee must be to show/sell firearms (18? 21?)
- Pawn vs outright purchase
- Percent of overall sales
- Jewelry
- Pawn vs outright purchase
- Percent of overall sales
- Taking inventory
- How often (weekly, monthly, etc.)
- Method used in mid- to late-1980s (pre-bar codes)
- Paper (by hand)?
- Computers by simple spreadsheet?
- Computers with some type of inventory program built-in?
- Other?
- Anything I haven't thought to ask?
Please leave a comment on anything you think would be helpful. Or you can email me at-
incurableoptimist@chuckpierson.com.
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