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Copy Systems changes locale
Julia Hansen
Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: News
Beginning Jan. 2, Truman students can buy their textbooks, wash their clothes and purchase Greek merchandise, all in the same building.
Copy Systems Business Center, located in the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Baltimore, will move closer to campus in late December of this year and reopen Jan. 2. Relocating next door to Patty's University Bookstore, the store will be in a new location after 15 years in Wal-Mart. The store will combine space with Dirty Things Laundry off Franklin Street. Copy Systems owner Chris Mudd said that relocating close to campus has been many years in the making.
"We've been trying for years to find a decent location at the University because most universities have a copy shop near them for students to access easily, but we could never find the right spot," Mudd said.
Copy Systems, which offers services like T-shirt screen printing, letter stitching and copying, has a Kirksville community customer base, but it mostly serves students and others affiliated with Truman, Mudd said.
Copy Systems, which has been in the Wal-Mart Supercenter since it opened in 1992, will not renew its lease with Wal-Mart that ends at the end of December. Copy Systems started out in 56 Wal-Marts around the country. During the past decade, Copy Systems have sold out to other businesses like salons, or they have fizzled out, Mudd said. Three years ago there were only five or six Copy Systems stores around the United States, including stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and one in Fenton, Mo., Mudd said. For the first 10 years of business, Copy Systems was required to remain franchised. The stores were independently owned but were franchised. Mudd bought Copy Systems from the previous owner in 1997, and in 2002 they were released from the franchise. Mudd said corporate Wal-Mart is unifying its stores, meaning it is trying to make its Supercenters have the same stores like banks, hair and nail salons and photography studios. Mudd said that with the unifying of Wal-Marts and his longtime desire to move closer to campus, it was a good time to move.
Copy Systems Business Center, located in the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Baltimore, will move closer to campus in late December of this year and reopen Jan. 2. Relocating next door to Patty's University Bookstore, the store will be in a new location after 15 years in Wal-Mart. The store will combine space with Dirty Things Laundry off Franklin Street. Copy Systems owner Chris Mudd said that relocating close to campus has been many years in the making.
"We've been trying for years to find a decent location at the University because most universities have a copy shop near them for students to access easily, but we could never find the right spot," Mudd said.
Copy Systems, which offers services like T-shirt screen printing, letter stitching and copying, has a Kirksville community customer base, but it mostly serves students and others affiliated with Truman, Mudd said.
Copy Systems, which has been in the Wal-Mart Supercenter since it opened in 1992, will not renew its lease with Wal-Mart that ends at the end of December. Copy Systems started out in 56 Wal-Marts around the country. During the past decade, Copy Systems have sold out to other businesses like salons, or they have fizzled out, Mudd said. Three years ago there were only five or six Copy Systems stores around the United States, including stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and one in Fenton, Mo., Mudd said. For the first 10 years of business, Copy Systems was required to remain franchised. The stores were independently owned but were franchised. Mudd bought Copy Systems from the previous owner in 1997, and in 2002 they were released from the franchise. Mudd said corporate Wal-Mart is unifying its stores, meaning it is trying to make its Supercenters have the same stores like banks, hair and nail salons and photography studios. Mudd said that with the unifying of Wal-Marts and his longtime desire to move closer to campus, it was a good time to move.
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