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That’s rough, but when a business is no longer economically viable it’s probably time to close up shop.
by thebooktocome 4y ago
That’s rough, but when a business is no longer economically viable it’s probably time to close up shop.
- gumby 4y agoWhat if the economic change is transient? There are only two regular restaurants in town. The impact is larger than just the owner.
- kungfufrog 4y agoI actually found it a really sad article to read. I feel like living in a major city, earning software development $$$'s, it can be real easy to disconnect from the producer side of the economy. Increasingly large companies are creating an environment that's conducive to their profits and survival at the expense of smaller producers who care more about the process and quality of what they produce.
- thebooktocome 4y agoThese increased food and fuel costs are largely not transient. The town itself might very well not be viable anymore. I’ve seen this happen in my own neck of the woods. It’s sad, but the death of small towns like this is just a reality of the economic policy we’ve chosen to pursue here.
- sokoloff 4y agoI'd be fairly surprised if we don't see gas under $3/gal sometime in the next decade. There's a reason several key economic indicators exclude food and energy (due to the much higher volatility of these categories).
- thebooktocome 4y agoLet’s see, they opened in 2001. So their original business model assumed gas would be around 1.40/gal (1.90 inflation adjusted). When do you think gas will fall that low again?
- sokoloff 4y agoYou can’t reasonably predict a specific future price-at-time of a volatile commodity (that’s the whole point of excluding its transient excursions). Dev 2008, Feb 2016, spring 2020 were all times with retracements back near the 2001 levels (adjusted for currency devaluation/inflation). I expect we’ll see them again in my lifetime, but you can’t reliably predict exactly when. (If you could, you could retire quite quickly via commodity speculation.)
- tylermac1 4y agothis is just a reality of the economic policy we’ve chosen to pursue here. Now who is "we" in this scenario?
- wins32767 4y agoAmerican citizens collectively.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoBut also the general development of the world
- renewiltord 4y agoJust the same thing as people say on HN for other things. Your business model is not my problem.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoSo you're just locked into a slowly decaying town by social norms and guilt? Sounds like the well intentioned by arguably antagonistic group of adults in a coming of age young adult movie. The decline of rural towns has been a long term thing.
- rco8786 4y agoObviously. The article is about the effect of that happening on the community.
- chiphammertime 4y agoI know it's unfair of me, but I'm imagining a default-dead early startup guy saying this while drinking the weird mushroom water, so thank you for that
- thebooktocome 4y agoI probably give off that vibe. But nah, I’m just a jaded, cynical survivor of the Rust Belt imploding twenty years ago, causing similar destruction to our mom n’ pops. From which we also never really recovered. Anyway, more importantly, what weird mushroom water? Is it any good?
- ev1 4y agokombucha and it is very much an acquired taste IMO
- richbell 4y agoI've never heard Kombucha referred to as mushroom water. I assumed they meant Chaga.
- dragonwriter 4y agoHow is fermented tea “mushroom water”?
- ev1 4y agoOld coworkers used to call the growth mushroom as slang for some reason, at least that was the first thing that came to mind. The other one is a ludicrously overpriced relatively recent beverage called mud water (caffeinated mushroom water?)
- Iwan-Zotow 4y agoIn Russian, it is called grib, aka mushroom
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- quickthrower2 4y agoNo you pivot! You have the shop, the loyalty, the community. What I imagine small towns need is convenience. If I can buy some groceries while at the BBQ house that is handy. Maybe sell phone chargers too and watnot. Change the menu so the items are affordable, large but the item cost is lower.