DECA explores student store possibility

by janeane lage <reporter>

Rumors are flying around about a new student store opening up at SM North. DECA, a marketing club, is planning on using the store as a competition piece. "

At the state competition you can do written events, and at our school only seniors can do that,"said senior Amanda Bonewits, co-president of DECA. "That's what we're doing with the student store. We're doing the entrepreneurship written event."

According to senior and DECA co-president Rodger Crider, they hope to provide school supplies, North apparel and snack food. The thing is, they can't have any of the same merchandise as any other program.

"When we do this we can't conflict with any other items people are selling," said Brook Hancock, the DECA sponsor. "We can't have the same food as the cafeteria, we can't sell the same clothing that the Booster parents sell. Everything we sell has to be different."

The location of the future store has not been decided yet, granting that there are enough funds to put it together at all. If the project does get the go ahead, which probably won't be until May, it won't be open for business until next year.