What to sell at a kiosk- Entrepreneurs will be getting ideas at a specialty retail expo in Boston.

By Paul Grimaldi

Successful business people are typically good with numbers, finding profits where others see only a jumble of digits. Determination and instinct often play large parts in that success. "My grandfather thought I was a lunatic," said Gary Garabedian, president of Aah La Cart, a Warwick retail company. In 1981, Garabedian was looking to start a business selling goods from a pushcart -- a style that had gone out of vogue after World War II. Pushcarts were making a comeback as shopping malls tried to mimic the success of Boston's Fanueil Hall Market Place, where the carts were seeing great sales. Garabedian thought he could make a go of one.

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