In April 1991, we established our 15,000 square foot store in Barrie, Ontario. We were getting a fair bit of business from that area, and we wanted to be on Highway 400 because of the Toronto customer base passing our door going north. A few years ago, Bill Hepfer asked us if we wanted to take over his Pickering store. Last June, he came back to us, telling us he intended to close down. I figured out how we could get goods across Toronto early in the morning, before the rush hour, from our warehouse and it seemed quite feasible.
People walk in the front door and everything is in galleries.
We've used extensive signage and it works for us. We opened October 28, at the tail end of the High Point Market. Sales are excellent. All our salespeople in all our stores are being retrained. We got Ted Shepherd from Shepherd Sales Management, Atlanta, to come in.