Enterprise of the 7 days: Gray’s Tire Company | Chickasaw Journal
2 min readHOULKA – When Brady Gray and his spouse Mollie resolved to open their individual tire shop, they could not have imagined the degree of success they would see.
Opened 5 several years ago, Gray’s Tire Assistance has sat on the identical corner in Houlka its whole tenure. Having said that, they have officially relocated to a bigger facility, which opened on Monday, and will let them to services far more vehicles at one particular time than at any time in advance of.
“We’re just variety of transferring up the scale,” explained Gray. “We acquired a store suitable out there on 15, and we’re striving to go that way. The transition’s rough, but it truly is a whole lot bigger, it can be got a lot more doors on it. I’ve acquired 4 large doors down there where by I’ve only obtained just one right here. We can do numerous solutions down there.”
Although they are moving, it is only down the highway, and they will still be a section of Houlka and its abundant community.
A neighborhood that Grey and his loved ones have felt approved by and love dearly.
“It’s just a great local community. I’ve got people today coming in all working day extended, coming to say hello, and sit down and drink some coffee, they are not just strangers coming as a result of the doorway, we know just about everybody. Everybody that walks through that door we know.”
Supplying a number of solutions, Gray’s thinks in keeping small business local, and they virtually completely trade with local enterprises. He stated that his shoppers have the identical see and that is the key way that not only his business enterprise, but most community businesses are in a position to stay afloat.
“It’s the loyalty of my buyers. They occur right here regardless. They come in to buy their tires even though they are having to pay a couple of bucks more to buy their tires from me than to get them at Walmart, but that’s what I like about my customers, they maintain coming.”
He explained that what sets them aside from other tire shops is their 24-hour roadside services. On the other hand, he claimed that it is not a competitiveness with him. He is not seeking to operate anyone out of small business, he just needs to coexist with the other tire retailers in the county and every person continue on their business and improve.
With their new facility, nevertheless, he did say that they would become the premier tire retailer in the county as significantly as sq. footage.
But that is the best intention, to just preserve developing, while in no way forgetting the people today who got them the place they are right now.
