The only chance of making it is to cater to the largest market segments, which is the invest-in-modern-rookies crowd. As I understand it, getting a significant quantity of product from Topps is exceptionally difficult unless one has been with them for years now, which will be the key to a baseball card shop moving enough product to turn a profit.
I wish an old-school card store was still viable, and I really miss them. But they are almost all gone because it doesn't make cents anymore. If you got money to blow and want to do it just for fun and don't need to turn a profit, that's different, but as a career? I would not.
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