"The real ME" wrote in message
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Harry Krause wrote:

I sold off nearly $3,000,000 in new motors and boats, depressing
the new boat
industry in southern Connecticut for an entire season. Everything
was sold...every cotter pin, every quart of oil, 30 days after I
started.
For near full-retail, too.


$3 million in 1970 translates to about $15 million today.

Must have been one hell of a business to have that sort of inventory.

For comparison sake I wonder what sort of inventory (retail) a typical
Walmart carries.