There are only THree NPHC sorority

[rhoyaltempest]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

I've been given this reason before by a greek store owner. I also told the owner, a Kappa, if he would provide more, we'd (SGR chapters in Houston) would buy more. He refused so we've boycotted his store.

Good for you all. I know if a store didn't have anything for us and it didn't look like they were likely to get anything for us, the word would spread and sorors wouldn't go there. My thing is how can you call your business a greek store and you don't have something for all the NPHC orgs whether there are a lot of members in your area or not. My sorors and I have thought of opening such a store ourselves where we live and as a business owner, I darn sure wouldn't want any of the members in the NPHC or other well known greek orgs to stop by my store when I have nothing for them. I don't care if there were no members in my area...what about the members from out of town that are just passing thru. If you are really about that money, you won't want to alienate anyone.

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest

Good for you all. I know if a store didn't have anything for us and it didn't look like they were likely to get anything for us, the word would spread and sorors wouldn't go there. My thing is how can you call your business a greek store and you don't have something for all the NPHC orgs whether there are a lot of members in your area or not. My sorors and I have thought of opening such a store ourselves where we live and as a business owner, I darn sure wouldn't want any of the members in the NPHC or other well known greek orgs to stop by my store when I have nothing for them. I don't care if there were no members in my area...what about the members from out of town that are just passing thru. If you are really about that money, you won't want to alienate anyone.

Maybe more of your sorors need to do that. Maybe some have already. You can look to their success and judge whether that would be a good business move; probably not because volume is key for a retail business. Your authorized vendors would probably have better items anyway.

We have the opposite problem - everybody and their mother paints something red and white then tries to sell it to us. There is so much junk out there that we really have to pick and choose what we buy because 80% of it is junk.

[BlueReign]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

Maybe more of your sorors need to do that. Maybe some have already. You can look to their success and judge whether that would be a good business move; probably not because volume is key for a retail business. Your authorized vendors would probably have better items anyway.

We have the opposite problem - everybody and their mother paints something red and white then tries to sell it to us. There is so much junk out there that we really have to pick and choose what we buy because 80% of it is junk.

You know I have seen some things that made me say "what is that and why would they think anybody would want to buy it?

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by BlueReign

You know I have seen some things that made me say "what is that and why would they think anybody would want to buy it?

New neos are usually eager to buy dumb stuff so these companies get a lot of business particularly in the Spring. Unless these new neos' prophytes teach them that "cheap crap is still crap even if our wonderful symbols and beautiful colors are on it."