It sells the least glamorous products in retail - the AA pack, the car battery, the oddball bulb - and turned that boredom into a 730-store franchise that thrives precisely when your stuff breaks.
Buff City Soap turned fresh production into retail theater - then used scent, franchising and laundry care to push a handmade idea beyond the bath.
Pet Supplies Plus built a national pet-retail network around an intentionally small idea: make the weekly food run feel local, fast and useful. The result is a franchise system where dog washes, delivery routes and adoption events do as much work as the shelves.