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Tidybouy,
I am wondering now about stores like Home Depot, who put a store in San Francisco. Do they look at cost/profit/volume at individual stores? Or are the stores used to push product, and hence allowed to run at lower than average profit for the company as a whole?
In Fresno, as you know, many national chains look at the area as a "remote market" and put less effort into promotions and marketing, training costs, etc. They just throttle back their costs and expectations and let Fresno stores sort of wobble along. When a store in a major market faces exorbitant costs increases due to mandatory minimum wage, crazy voter approved taxes, etc, what do you do? When do you pull the plug?
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