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Page 12 —Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, .August 2, 1978 "
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John and Margaret Moore and their children, Chris and
Lynda, are seated in front of their general store in
Whitechurch. The business is not growing fast enough to
support the family without John working at an outside job, so
they have decided to sell the store and move to Ottawa. John
has been offered a position there and they want to be together
as a family. Since they purchased the business last year, John
has worked In Toronto, and the rest of the family has lived in
Whitechurch.
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When John was offered a position as an operations analyst
with Combustion Engineering in Ottawa,they decided to
close the store, sell the stock and building, and move to
Ottawa together as family.
They found that the business was so: run down from the
previous owner at the store; that it would take a long time to
build it up again. They increased the business by 25 per cent
the first month they had the store. Staples like bread, milk
and meat are up over 100 per cent.
Margaret found ghe could sell at prices 'under anyone in
Wingham, but people would not shop at the store for all their
groceries, to find out that her prices were cheaper. They are
attracted to the chain stores: by big specials on a couple of
items.
If you want a variety of everything in the store, you have to
invest about $2,000 a week says Margaret, and from that you
wilIMake about $1,000. But only 17 per cent is profit after the
overhead is paid.
The hours were long because they were open from 8.45
a.m. to 6.30 p.m. every day except Saturday when they were
open until 8.00 p.m. and Wednesday when they were closed.
But then there were the hours keeping books and doing stock
and even on Wednesday there were three travellers who came
regularly.
Margaret thinks the location would be excellent for a snack
bar, variety store, giftware or antique shop. Just about every
third or fourth person who comes in wants to know where they
can get a eup of coffee or a sandwich.
Margaret is looking forward`to having more spare time now
that she will not be working 18 hour days.. She has her pilot's
licence and wants to start flying again as soon as they move to
Ottawa. She is the one who loves to travel and John who hates
it, has been on business trips to Russia, Holland and Poland.
They will miss the, country community where they lived for
the past year, and especially the people who were so friendly.
But they are looking ahead to being a family together in the
year to come.
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