Within seven years, he had saved enough money to rent a shop space nearby, and expanded his business to sell bigger used items like computers, refrigerators, videotape recorders and television sets, in addition to old clothes, shoes and records.
Consider the need for shop space.
There's just not enough space for shopping trolleys, walking frames, luggage or 28 exuberant seven-year-olds with rucksacks on a school trip.
Few store owners were keen to open a franchise seeing a good response to a smart shop but lack enough space, so, it may not pass muster as a Friendly Mart franchise.
And the house we're in now has enough garage space that I could have a true shop.
Once you're up and inside – and the car sits quite high in classic style – it's not quite as expansive as it looks from outside, but there's enough boot space to cope with a family's weekly shop.
Recently, he talked the owner of a small shop into clearing out enough space in a back room for him to sleep there.
In the years leading up to the recession, we had way too many people on our shop floor and not enough space or machinery to keep them working efficiently.
