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Reminds me of when I lived in Copenhagen. There were laws against businesses being opened on Sunday. But if your store was small enough, you were exempt. And so
by tvanantwerp 10y ago
Reminds me of when I lived in Copenhagen. There were laws against businesses being opened on Sunday. But if your store was small enough, you were exempt. And so I regularly saw two or three tiny and separate H&M stores side-by-side with each other.
- jbpetersen 10y agoI was not expecting HN to make me think about the potential for unwavering capitalism to be adorable.
- matt4077 10y agoIt's a bit different because they're actually selling (parts of) that business unit – a holding is evaluated as single entity. Oh, and H&M frequently does small shops in locations without such laws as well. They often have separate stores for men/women/children or along segments of style (i. e. stores with only formal menswear). It could be marketing, availability of retails space or an attempt to remain flexible. It's also not too hard to make such laws airtight, or to leave some details to the executive branch which can react much faster.