1 Stop Pawn Offers U-Haul at Second Location on the Gulf Coast
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISS. (May 8, 2015) – The chance to become a business owner generated more interest in Adam Wilkerson than the archeology degree he was pursuing. Wilkerson bought 1 Stop Pawn while attending college and now has three locations.
Two of them are now U-Haul neighborhood dealers.
The Ocean Springs location at 2801 Bienville Blvd. recently joined the U-Haul dealer network to provide customers with trucks, trailers, towing equipment, support rental items, in-store pick-up for boxes and after-hours drop-off for U-Haul equipment.
Reserve U-Haul products at this location by visiting http://www.uhaul.com/Locations/Truck-Rentals-near-Ocean-Springs-MS or calling (228) 872-5751 today.
1 Stop Pawn is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
Wilkerson partnered with U-Haul at his Gautier store in 2008 and has been offering equipment from the industry leader in do-it-yourself moving and self-storage ever since then.
Wilkerson said that when he was in college, the former owner of 1 Stop Pawn went bankrupt and the opportunity to assume control of the business was too good to pass up.
“I found it more lucrative than my archeology major,” he said.
1 Stop Pawn is a full-service pawn shop that buys and sells everything from fine jewelry to cars and firearms. There is the shop in Gautier, and the third store is in Moss Point.
Wilkerson said that the U-Haul dealer program has paid off in numerous ways.
“I wanted to give it a try and it’s been (nearly) eight years,” Wilkerson said. “It’s a pretty good fit. (Customers) prefer this Ocean Springs location.”
U-Haul is a good fit for 1 Stop Pawn because customers use equipment to transport the valuables they buy and sell.
“They buy appliances and then rent the trucks and trailers to move them, or they can’t take the armoire and they sell it to me,” Wilkerson said.
Customer service comes first for Wilkerson, and it’s reflected in 1 Stop Pawn’s five-star rating in the uhaul.com customer reviews.
Wilkerson noted that Ocean Springs, just east of Biloxi, is very festive with events going on near the beach and having orange-clad U-Haul equipment in site attracts customer traffic. Cruisin’ the Coast is one of the major events that draw tourists to the area each year.
U-Haul and 1 Stop Pawn are striving to benefit the environment through sustainability initiatives. Truck sharing is a core U-Haul sustainability business practice that allows individuals to access a fleet of trucks that is larger than what they could access on an individual basis.
Every U-Haul truck placed in a community helps keep 19 personally owned large-capacity vehicles, pickups, SUVs and vans off the road. Fewer vehicles means less traffic congestion, less pollution, less fuel burned and cleaner air.
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