| pigeon hunter |
Oct. 20th, 2009|07:46 pm |
I was walking in the city today and I passed by this guy sitting on the sidewalk feeding pigeons. He spread out some seeds or something and a whole flock of them came over. Then the guy reached out and grabbed one of the pigeons, stood up, and walked off with it. That seemed sort of strange to me.
All of the places to get coffee near my office are chain places. I was thinking today that someone should make a chain where every store is different. I don't know much about retail, but I believe that the two reasons why chains are a successful business model are that 1) they give the consumer confidence that every meal will be the same, and 2) economies of scale allow them to operate more cheaply than independent places. But why doesn't someone make like a chain of independent coffee places? They could benefit from the economies of scale, and I don't want every cup of coffee I get to be identical, so it would be an advantage. I am a consumer who drinks a lot of coffee and I would prefer a nice, homey place that doesn't look like a McDonalds. Maybe this new chain could afford the high downtown rents and I could get coffee at a place I liked. If I knew something about business maybe I'd start a chain like that. Although I guess that since no one seems to be doing it, it is probably a dumb idea. |
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