Dammit, we opened first!kailus13 said:Although why you'd open an antiques shop directly opposite another antiques shop is anyone's guess.
I wonder this myself whenever I see a local mattress store right across from Bed Bath & Beyond, or anything across from Wal-Mart. Dividing your possible customers between yourself and that big-name store over there never works out. Hey, got any brass doorknobs? I could use a few for my....doors, yea I'm gonna use them on doors.kailus13 said:I think I'd go to Reilly's Pile of Old Crap before I'd go to any antique shop. Although why you'd open an antiques shop directly opposite another antiques shop is anyone's guess.
Try to avoid wooden boxes with your initials carved on them. It never ends well.
Sure, we sell them by the pillowcase for... easy carrying. And remember, Reilly's does all our business in cash, so we could never tell the police who bought certain items, or even if a person came into our store in the first place.Remus said:Hey, got any brass doorknobs? I could use a few for my....doors, yea I'm gonna use them on doors.
Pretty sure it was to scorn them, especially since he offered a 10% discount on everything in the store for breaking stuff from Fairbank's Antiques.Makabriel said:Wait a second... Where did Fairbank's Antiques move to anyway? I'm confused.
Or did he just take it off the map to scorn them? heh.
There can actually be a logic to it: The area has proven that there is a demand for that sort of store and you know you have a potential client base. The question is whether it can support two stores, and often that's actually a more likely position than finding out if an area can support ONE of a kind of store.kailus13 said:Although why you'd open an antiques shop directly opposite another antiques shop is anyone's guess.
ill take it off your hands if you dont want it.008Zulu said:Antiques? What am I going to do with a CRT t.v?
Usually, it's the other way around. Big stores will move in to an area specifically because they can take the divided base longer. You win out through attrition, and then you rule.Remus said:I wonder this myself whenever I see a local mattress store right across from Bed Bath & Beyond, or anything across from Wal-Mart. Dividing your possible customers between yourself and that big-name store over there never works out. Hey, got any brass doorknobs? I could use a few for my....doors, yea I'm gonna use them on doors.
If you have multiple stores of the same type in the same area, people looking for things those stores sell are more likely to go there than if there was only one store (assuming they're not selling products that are identical from store to store, like groceries). I mean, if you're looking for a couch, are you going to go to a furniture store that's located across town from any other furniture store, or are you going to go to the three furniture stores located right next to each other? Having them close together means customers have a much larger range to choose from, so they're more likely to chose that option. The separate one might get a bigger slice of their pie, but the three together are going to have a much larger pie to share.kailus13 said:I think I'd go to Reilly's Pile of Old Crap before I'd go to any antique shop. Although why you'd open an antiques shop directly opposite another antiques shop is anyone's guess.
Try to avoid wooden boxes with your initials carved on them. It never ends well.
The area where I work has two antique stores across the street from each other. They used to be partners, and now they hate each other. They're constantly fighting over parking lot space and trying to file police reports on each other.kailus13 said:I think I'd go to Reilly's Pile of Old Crap before I'd go to any antique shop. Although why you'd open an antiques shop directly opposite another antiques shop is anyone's guess.