Leawood, KS 66211, US
Retailing
barefootbeachbums.com
Barefoot Beach Bums is a landlock Midwest beach store providing beach and lake inspired apparel, jewelry and home décor to the tropical traveler and lake loving customer.
Mark and Lynn Gould have built this store to fill the need to have a year-round local store that supplies swimwear and resort apparel to the 30% of the Kansas City metropolitan population that travels to the lower latitudes each year.
In addition to resort and swimwear; home décor is carried to assist customers looking to furnish a room, or entire house in both luxurious and elegant laid back beach and lake décor. Each piece, and every vendor is hand selected based on their uniqueness that focuses on product differentiation within the local market to stand out amidst surrounding retailers that may periodically carry similar merchandise; such as swimwear in summer.
The products are beach or lake themed items more focused on the resort. Our goal is to be the first stop after someone books a tropical vacation or buys that new lake home. We want to be the first place people think of to go buy birthday or holiday gifts for friends or family who are beach or lake loving people.
Education Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems
Work as system manager for Cerner for 15 years
2.5 years running Barefoot Beach Bums from nothing to a store in Town Center Plaza