Question : CMS for Business/Retail Sites?

I've done some research and I can't come up with a clear answer. Is CMS (Drupal) good for small business retail sites where products change daily?

We don't need to build communities. Or forums. Or blogs. We don't need feedback from users. We want to show products with pictures, prices, and other information. We want full-featured search/filters. We want to customize our layout. We want to add controls and forms to build handy filters. We don't want to deal with a clumsy API.

I have nothing to do with this site but here's an example of the type of site we are building. http://www.greenacreslf.com/  Our site will get more advanced than this, with a page that will let someone "build" their dream shed and give them pricing and "similar pictures" to view. In Drupal?????

All my research shows Drupal would be poor for this type of site. I'd rather build it with ASP and an Access database if I need to.

Now somebody help me out and give me some really good reasons to use a CMS. Or just agree with my current opinion.

Answer : CMS for Business/Retail Sites?

I'm in the process of implementing a Drupal site, and it's core is not designed for commerce, though there are commerce modules.  Drupal is a perfect blogging platform, and great for sharing content development responsibilities.  Drupal is also PHP and CSS-based, so you should be comfortable with those if you plan to do a lot of customization.

You could use Drupal or another CMS in conjunction with an open source shopping system like OSCommerce.  If you don't plan on having a lot of content collaboration, Drupal is probably not your best option.

Here's an article that compares OSCommmerce to Drupal and Mambo's cart modules:
http://www.linux.com/articles/48589

For speedy development, I would go with what you know.  If that's ASP and MS Access, especially if you're the one that will be responsible for maintaining it in the future, go with those.  I'm sure you can find an open source ASP cart system that will get you started.  But pigmentarts is right that a PHP/MySQL solution would be much better for flexibility.

Hope this helps!