Featured Commercial Listing

Sales = $1,540,063
Owner's Discretionary Cash Flow = $172,415
12,000+ sf
1 acre +/-

In addition, Calef’s serves local customers on a day-in and day-out basis as a unique general store, deli & market, and overall community and gossip center. Next door, you’ll also find Calef’s Gift store, featuring the best New England has to offer.

This tourist attraction is a genuine New England experience, engaging people as they retrace the steps of their youth to rediscover this landmark. Politicians and pollsters, seeking to reach the grass roots, also make it a point to stop by and interact with this venerable store’s customers while visiting Senator Austin Calef’s childhood home. You can also follow the crowds to various events throughout the year, such as the Annual Baked Bean Bake Off, the (largest in the country) Truck Meet to show old trucks and tractors or a Summer Craft Fair & Festival. Annually, over 150,000 customers walk through Calef’s front door.

The Country Store: Consistent track record of profitability in good times as well as bad. In the last 10 years, it posted significant gains, tripling sales to more than $1.4 million with a healthy gross margin and an enviable owner’s cash flow. This is a turnkey operation, ready for the right individual or individuals to continue the superior merchandising, award-winning advertising and over-the-top customer service for which this establishment is known.

Strengths: Calef’s has a history and tradition that cannot be copied or replaced. This is an authentic, one-of-a-kind treasure. Combining a sense of nostalgia with an inviting and friendly atmosphere has been a long-standing formula for success. The more recent addition of high quality, gourmet food products has provided a revenue and margin contribution not otherwise available to typical convenience stores and markets.
THE BIG OPPORTUNITY!
The advent of internet sales has opened a window to reach audiences around the world with premium products. Success and demand to date has proven the market presence, but the potential has only been scratched. The internet represents logical outgrowth of a steady mail order business for gifts and specialty products, with plenty of room left for growth. Combining toll-free telephones with the internet offers a tremendous opportunity to market products globally Greater attention to online ordering and a store with Pay-Per-Click advertising can help reach a huge, global marketplace. Correspondingly, the addition of a wider range of quality Calef private label products can only help to extend the Calef brand awareness and value.