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“Location is the soul of retail business.” This was one of the first lessons in commerce imparted by my father when I joined his retail store as a 17-year-old boy in the late ‘90s.
It continues to form the holy grail of the retail industry for me and many others out there. Once you’ve cut away the frills, a simple definition of retail would be selling goods and services to make a profit.
If you...