No lie - last time I went to Sears to buy something that I saw in an advertisement, about 6 or 7 years ago, I was the only person on the second floor of the store - no sales people, no customers, nothing but me and merchandise.

They even rented several thousand dollars woth of merchandise from a rent to own store, including a $3000 big screen tv to the management company.

I notice it a lot when I'm selling general merchandise or giving away free stuff.

They include: the sale of finished products, materials, or merchandise that are not fabricated into and do not become a part of a structure under the common law of fixtures; an owner who contracts with a registered contractor, but not if the owner performs the activities of a contractor for the purpose of leasing or selling improved property owned for less than 12 months; any person working on his or her own property or residence, but not if the person performs the activities of a contractor for the purpose of selling, demolishing, or leasing the property; and an owner who performs maintenance work on his or her own properties, or who uses his or her own employees to do such work.

I have plans to create a retail African/Caribbean import store inside my salon which the space has been built but haven't had a chance to stock the merchandise in it yet while I'm too busy servicing clients.

A difference between a merchant and a landlord is that lost merchandise (whether by theft, damage or unsaleable) is called shrinkage and lost rental income is called lost rent.both are just the cost of doing business That being said, there's a social obligation for doing business and how we treat others. 

My husband had a rental and the wife was a shoplifter who had thousands of dollars worth of stolen merchandise in my husbands house.

They will give you a small amount at first like $400 but after you pay for the merchandise upfront of 33% down and finance the rest they raise the limit to a ridiculously large MLOC around $10k-25k , but I cant find anything in Fingerhut that I would finance that kind of money for.

Hi Naomi, Loews and Home Depot always sell their cancelled order merchandise in the contractor department at a discount.

I just wanted a tool to help me analyze the numbers until I am at that level, and I figured there were others out there thinking the same thing.So, does the location of merchandise in the stores.