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Originally Posted by Mack184
Bing! Bing!! BING!!! WINNER!!!! None of these companies is going to open and staff a store that is going to be half-full when they can over-pack a current operating location.
Most companies have business percentage goals to reach before they will even consider opening another operation that is near-by to a current store. The Darden Restaurant Group (Dead Lobster/Olive Garden/Longhorn) requires that it's current location be operating CONTINUALLY at 110% of daily expectations before it will even think about adding a new near-by store.
If you have to wait a little bit, they don't care. I don't say this in a mean way. They KNOW you will wait, because you've made a CHOICE.
Whether it's a grocery store or restaurant there are tremendous start-up costs that include building, staffing, operating licenses, insurance, payroll, stocking and all those things that go with opening a new facility. These successful businesses are not going to upset their apple cart by rushing into laying out a few million bucks because some grumpy people on a website decide that they need to open a store. They are going to stick to their long-term plan and do what works best for THEIR bottom-line. Which, BTW..is what SUCCESSFUL businesses do.
So when the time is right for THEM, then you will see a new store.
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When the Colony Publix opened in April 2007, there were very few houses south of Bonita Blvd. I would go down there early in the am and my car would be the only one in the parking lot, and I would be the only one shopping in the store. The bag "boys" would be fighting over carrying my groceries to the car.
What happened here in the past is not consistent with your theory that a company is not going to open and staff a store that is only half full.