That didn't make any sense, let me try again. His store may have been a franchise. Franchises carried RS stuff and may have even had the name, but as they were not a corporate store they could carry what they wanted (along with other brands or even genres of product) and didn't necessarily have to deal with the corporate programs like the Battery-of-the-month club cards. Most stores were corporate, meaning RS owned them and they carried the full stock of RS items and nothing else, but there was a store in a nearby town to me that was a music store that had a RS franchise. They carried a few things, could order everything else. but were primarily a music store that sold RS-branded items like amps, radios, etc.