A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

Re:A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shop... by hinkley on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:28PM (#28281470)

The mechanics end up helping pay for the building and profit margin, same as everything else in the shop. There’s a price point where you can keep your mechanics running at 90% every day, and that may or may not pay for the building.

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Re:A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shop... by _carbyau_ on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:20PM (#28283308)

I see this as the major issue. Any business has to pay the commercial landlord. That rent seeking behaviour is a huge tax to place on a business.

The only way I would operate a shopfront business of any kind is if I owned the building. But I'd need to build a business first that could pay for the building. If I can build such a business, then I likely wouldn't bother with the shopfront until you get "Apple" big.

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Re:A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shop... by hinkley on Monday August 23, 2021 @07:35PM (#28283419)

You lose about half of your customers when you move to a new building and the landlords know it.

Big companies and churches play this right. They buy more land then they need, and when the market is down they buy more, and when they have too much they rent it out a few years at a time so they never have to wait long to expand.

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