{"id":3163,"date":"2012-02-01T06:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2012-07-08T06:33:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T13:33:06","slug":"stealth-project-retail-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/stealth-project-retail-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth Project &#8211; Retail Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Mike, are you crazy? Don&#8217;t you know this online store thing coupled with the &#8220;WalMarting&#8221; of America makes retail one of the least profitable, most risky, prone to fail business segments on the planet?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nYep.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow that we&#8217;ve got the objections on the table about why one shouldn&#8217;t touch retail with a 10 foot pole, I&#8217;ll provide a different perspective. The proper mix of bricks and mortar with online hasn&#8217;t really been achieved and sustained. I believe that buying is a fundamentally local activity and the key is to differentiate the experience such that people WANT to visit your bricks and mortar location first.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThat being said, here&#8217;s the pre-remodel of our retail space. We have some work to do&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2012\/01\/IMG_3108.jpg\" alt=\"Montara Ventures Stealth Retail Project space pre-remodel\" width=600 \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2012\/01\/IMG_3111.jpg\" alt=\"Montara Ventures Stealth Retail Project space pre-remodel\" width=600 \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2012\/01\/IMG_3116.jpg\" alt=\"Montara Ventures Stealth Retail Project space pre-remodel\" width=600 \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2012\/01\/IMG_3128.jpg\" alt=\"Montara Ventures Stealth Retail Project space pre-remodel\" width=600 \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nStay tuned, I&#8217;ll post updates about the project periodically.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike, are you crazy? Don&#8217;t you know this online store thing coupled with the &#8220;WalMarting&#8221; of America makes retail one of the least profitable, most risky, prone to fail business segments on the planet? Yep. Now that we&#8217;ve got the objections on the table about why one shouldn&#8217;t touch retail with a 10 foot pole, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,1029],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}