Marketing
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
It’s nice to feel welcome.
Joe Doakes
i’m always puzzled by stores that post themselves “no firearms”. Carry permit holders are, on average, about 3% of Minnesota customers. Members of every gun-control organization combined amount to less than 1% of 1%.
How many people would you rather have stay away from your business?
July 24th, 2014 at 10:08 am
I would imagine that a business like Mills Fleet Farm which provides gun repair services probably has more carry permit holders that shop at its stores than a business like Starbucks that sells over-priced coffee.
July 24th, 2014 at 10:45 am
Where’s that like button?
July 24th, 2014 at 11:02 am
Love the sign. I was in Western Wisconsin last week and made a point to shot at Mills Fleet Farm in Menomonie. Love the store and their viewpoints. Future Minn 8th Congressman Stewert Mills was on the video playing in the firearms department. Now I know how liberals feel when they see Garrison Keillor.
And the auto garage across the street from Fleet Farm always has conservative messages on their outside sign.
July 24th, 2014 at 12:27 pm
Hey Chuck – did you mean to say “shoot at” or “shop at” Mills??
July 24th, 2014 at 1:31 pm
I could be wrong but the font on the part of the sign that welcomes carry permit holders almost look to be the size that is required of the signs in MN banning guns.
July 24th, 2014 at 2:43 pm
The sign is a little smaller than most “bans guns” signs, and Cabela’s has about the same thing posted.