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Originally Posted by elcreative
Also requires the proprietors to be uninterested in earning a decent living...  Run a specialist and you get treated as a fount of all knowledge re the subject and then the "customers" go hunting for the best deal and buy from Amazon... and I speak from experience having worked for a specialist outlet for over three years and managed one for nearly four. Can only compete on specialist services not price and at the end became a free source of information expected but not supported by purchases... |
Yep. An old friend of mine was part owner of a specialty bookstore in California. He has another profession as a massage therapist, in part because he was lucky if the bookstore covered rent, utilities, and stock, let alone wages for those who worked there.
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Dennis