It’s been six years since we’ve opened our first store. Prior to being an Apricot Lane franchisee, I was a Senior Retail Executive for 25+ years. The question I’m most often asked is “why with all your retail experience, would you want to be apart of a franchise?” and the reasons are several; One would be meeting Ken. I knew that this was a culture that we would want to be apart of. Two, having come from a corporate environment, I knew that there was great power in being apart of a team. Also, Ken promised me and came through on this promise about flexibility, we get to buy what we want and we get the support of the team behind that. I knew that the name would come to be an important name in years to come and now with us approaching 100 stores, people come into our store and say they are familiar with Apricot Lane. Lastly, the power of being co-op, there’s close to 100 stores out there, we get to share information, we get to use each others information and we’re far more powerful as a group than we would be as individuals. I thought that this would be a good decision and it turned out to be a great one!
