Our location is not where anybody would come and say, 'a tire store would be good there,'" admits Tom Hargrove, co-owner with Mark Morrison of Tires First in Columbus, Ga.
The shop is located on a tree-lined road not far from a tank farm and across from a residential neighborhood. Nevertheless, they still get plenty of customers.
Enough that last year, they sold almost 24,000 tires from their one location, not including sales to car dealers and more than 2,400 retreaded commercial tires that passed through the business.
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