August 2013 Mr. Taylor arrives at WCHS as the new Business Education teacher for the school year With a $2,000 loan from the school principal, FBLA began ordering merchandise and we set up a table to sell at football games September 2013 FBLA invests $1,000 in an Ipad POS system from Shopify and begins to sell online and accept credit cards at selling events. October 2013 Football season comes to an end as does the sales for Warrior Warehouse. Year 1 profit was $3,200.
April 2014 Group of business students prepare an official business plan for Warrior Warehouse that included expansion plans. The plan requested a $10,000 loan. Students presented the plan to the Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Jeff Wilson. May 2014 Mr. Osborne purchased checkout desk and slat board structures from Pharmacy for $500. June 2014 Superintendent was so impressed he gave us $15,000 but placed a stipulation that the construction of the store must be paid for out of this money and construction could not cost more that $5,000.
July 2014 Construction begins on Warrior Warehouse
In a few short hours before the start of the game, we sold over $600 worth of inventory.