Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 weeks ago
Maybe, but why would somebody do that in the first place? Put effort, money, time and resources into a loss net gain?
You would need lots of those stores to justify others to lower prices like one or more on every town and place…
Maybe a state run enterprise at that point… But that woul be… Communism I guess.
Patnou@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ok how about the store only sells enough of a markup to cover lights and other stuff?
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 days ago
You mean including also staff wages? Would that also cover a wage for the owner? Or, in other words, a tiny bit of profit so the owner can live out of it?
At this point, try to put a cap on greed.
Patnou@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The owner being myself. I would pay my workers a fair price. Would work around school schedules and such. I would meek out the bare minimum for me but that would be it.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 days ago
In that case, you should definitely open the shop.
I think, tough, that your prices will be higher than normal retail, due to volumes and supply chain.
Also, the local “Wall-Mart” (or whatever corporation) would need to sell a very small loss for a few months to kill you, while subsidizing their loss with other shops in other locations…
You can’t win. But you can try and people will undoubtedly appreciate that