I found a very small downtown retail space to rent for very cheap. It’s about 300 square ft. I would be turning it into a cozy little bookstore that sells tea. Could something like this succeed, success being $40k/yr income, since the overhead would be so low? No labor costs and very low rent.

The location is downtown in a mid-sized city of 300k people with a metro over a million.

I would need to sell 15 books per day if relying on book sales alone with the expenses I’d have. It’s a high foot traffic area, and the small bookstore offers novelty especially with the right aesthetic. Also, the space for the inventory would be 10×20, which is enough for a book isle for 4-5 major fiction genres.