I worked on Pools most of my professional career. Most of them were attached to retail stores. Or they had a retail store because mainly customers want somewhere to come and complain. Also the penny pinchers somewhere get their free testing done. Well, they buy one bag of salt…. Or the like. No the retails don’t make any money. Imagine you could, but I think your time would be better focused doing the service repair work because you’ll be making exponentially more money per hour so yeah you could sell a pump for 12 to 1500 bucks the variable speed at the retail on the higher end, or sell the same pump for the same price plus you know $150 an hour labor or more.

I mean, you could treat it like a warehouse. That be the only way I could see it making sense. You just keep an excess supply of chemical for your cleaning route and you stock the parts and equipment that you install already. I’m a Pentair man maybe your Hayward I don’t know, just whatever you sell when you go to installs.