Houshou stole their ideas and customers. But tge the fools did open up next to her after she was established.
This.
Reminds me of one time near my house there was 2 electronic shops open right next to each other. And to compete, they keep giving cheaper and cheaper price (to the point we felt like we were ripping them off!). Finally, one of them lost the battle and shut down... and the "winner" shut down a moth later as well.
Is this possible for ehm... restaurant? like that could make convenience store closed???
In a small town with a small customer pool who aren't all in much of a rush, perhaps. Slow food still trumps fast food, but only if you have the luxury of sitting down long enough in one place. Convenient stores are still great if you just need a quickie. Otherwise, home-cooked meal is superior.
Thanks for your answer, but I still confused a bit.
Convenience store has a lot of thing not only food and drink. so that's why I think it's impossible to forced close by restaurant where just sell food.
Is Family mart just sell food?
I don't know anything about marketing. sorry about that
If the business primary income comes from food and drink sales (recently, Japanese convenience stores have been putting in seating areas for people to take their time) then the reduction in sales from having a restaurant take enough of the business away to make it more viable to open in a different location. One would hazard a guess that the margins on (and sales of) the non-food items might be lower, also.
It's not that they lost enough sales that they had to shut down due to bankruptcy, just that it would be better to move to another location - a process that would take a few months, as stated in the strip.
I don't know how that works on Japan but owning a franchise also means being an employee for the brand. You pay absurd high fees for being resupplied and selling with the brand, whatever is left then is for you.
On a family business all earnings belong to you, you don't have to share a percentage with a corporation who won't lose a penny. If you can't cover the brand share or your earnings are minimal because of customer affluence, there isn't anything left but to close the business (which involves more fees because periodical contract penalties) and relocate if you own another property that has been approved by the franchise. Otherwise you are left in debt and you have to pay anyway.
I was born and raised in the countryside and for me as well as a bunch of others, "Quickie" marts like 7-11 and the like are worthless. They overcharge on everything even if they sell more than food and stuff it's not worth the "Convinience" of them being everywhere(kinda like Starbucks).
I will ALWAYS go to an actual grocery store or All appliace store over a quickie and if closer, go to the local "Ma and Pa" store since you can actually get close to the owners. You can't get that closeness with corporate mega stores.
Or she could have bought stocks from the local brewery.
Ooh! So this kind of alcohol is around too?The store next door shut down... And it was so convenient, too.Oh? So they even have rice balls like this these days?Let's give making some lunch boxes a shot, shall we?Came to do a spot of shopping.I wonder why?Some months laterClosing right after I started my part-time job...Ah, I know!