Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:33:45 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Getting the book fix, was  Re: Gaylaxicon gets a hotel
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 10/7/2007 05:19 PM, you wrote:

>Bookstores close for lots of reasons.
>
>One of the more common is rent.  A wonderful DC art bookstore - Franz
>Bader - has closed because of their rent going up.  There is a point
>where there are no more costs to be cut and it's just time to close.

Or move.  If there's no place you can afford, it's not the
rent...it's the lack of revenue.  Lack of revenue in a store
generally means lower sales, though it can mean a bad profit margin
too.  Rent is just a cost of business, like everything else
businesses spend money on (stock, labor, utilities, insurance,
etc.).  Those costs have to be paid for by sales, which means
customers.  If customers buy enough, the costs are covered and there
may be profits.  If they don't, the costs aren't covered and then you
can't pay rent or other costs.  Not being able to pay the rent is
likely a sign of fewer customers in most cases where a previously
successful business has money problems.

-- Mike B.
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If the 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why does it have
locks on the door?