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<p>[QUOTE="Joe2007, post: 153257, member: 1262"]A few weeks ago I was browsing at an local antique mall on a Saturday afternoon. The mall boasts 60,000+ square feet of antiques and has several hundred vendors that rent booths or locked showcases. The place was practically devoid of buying customers, they were a handful of people browsing but none of them were carrying perspective purchases and the hold area on the main checkout area was largely empty (not much sold/set aside merchandise) and no customers in line. The cashiers/other staff looked incredibly bored. If a Saturday afternoon is not a peak time for sales then I don't know when is. Are many of these antique malls in financial trouble, their posted rates on their booths are fairly expensive so I'd think the dealers would need fairly good inventory turn over to be profitable?</p><p><br /></p><p>Your thoughts?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Joe2007[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Joe2007, post: 153257, member: 1262"]A few weeks ago I was browsing at an local antique mall on a Saturday afternoon. The mall boasts 60,000+ square feet of antiques and has several hundred vendors that rent booths or locked showcases. The place was practically devoid of buying customers, they were a handful of people browsing but none of them were carrying perspective purchases and the hold area on the main checkout area was largely empty (not much sold/set aside merchandise) and no customers in line. The cashiers/other staff looked incredibly bored. If a Saturday afternoon is not a peak time for sales then I don't know when is. Are many of these antique malls in financial trouble, their posted rates on their booths are fairly expensive so I'd think the dealers would need fairly good inventory turn over to be profitable? Your thoughts? Thanks, Joe2007[/QUOTE]
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