Appliance Store Changing Hands – Quay County Sun

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Tucumcari’s only appliance store is undergoing its first change of ownership in almost half a century.

Love’s Appliance Sales & Service at 117 S. Second St. downtown is set to officially change hands this week after being owned by Ray and Norma Love since 1973. Longtime employee Robert Marroquin will take over the keys to the company. Marroquin participated in Tucumcari MainStreet’s FORGE business accelerator program.

The Loves were in the process of liquidating their existing inventory of refrigerators, dishwashers and washers and dryers last week. Marroquin said a new delivery of home appliances is expected to arrive by the middle of the month.

The store will be renamed Appliance Connection. Marroquin said he would start repainting the panel above the entrance this week.

“It will always be the same great service, the same location, the same phone number… just a different name,†he said Thursday.

Marroquin said he would continue to sell most of the same brand of home appliances, including Speed ​​Queen and Frigidaire. He said he was still undecided whether he would stock any Whirlpool items because “there are so many rules and regulations” associated with the brand.

Marroquin had been Love’s repairman for about nine years.

“At first it was just another job,†he recalls. “Then Ray and Norma, they were so good to me. It was like, ‘How can I leave something so good?’ Then I started to fall in love with it, and here we are. “

Ray Love said Thursday they have been working on a transition with Marroquin for some time.

“For several years we have treated him,†Love said Thursday. “I’m trying to put it where Tucumcari will still have service and sales (of household appliances).”

Love admitted he had mixed feelings about leaving the store he and his wife had run for 48 years.

“It’s pretty difficult after so many years,†he said. “But we both want to help him get started in business. We wouldn’t have been here for so long if we had had someone to take care of people.”

Marroquin recognized some initial nervousness about owning a business.

“Honestly, I was a little scared at first,†he said. “But I’m ready to go all the way, take off and do big things.”

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