Things to Note When Starting Your Very First Retail Shop

Mystech

Beauticove, you seem to have experienced all this 1st hand. Just a point,

Renovation
First, calculate your own renovation budget. DO NOT leave it to your designer or contractor to tell you the total cost of what a retail shop should be. Get as many quotes as possible and then put together an approximate cost of the best quotes meaning, you don't have to get everything from 1 contractor. Eventually you'll come to see what it would really cost to renovate a shop based on size.

what you can do is to get a designer to design for you and then you search for your own contractors. The inherent danger in this is that if you are not experienced, you can foul everything up. Getting more quotes is of course good, but do remember that your quality matters too.