Originally Posted by
Tom Bombadil
Even at the prices they are asking, LBS's are finding it hard to keep the doors open. There are now 25% fewer LBS's than there were 5 years ago.
Is it possible that the manufacturers/distributors are causing the loss of LBS through price rigidity? Also, isn't it true that if one has a Performance store in the neighborhood, that that store is actually the LBS? We seem, able to support 2 LBS in a town of 40,000. Not sure that would be true were Performance to come in. I would guess though that tax revenue and employment would be fairly constant if Performance were to supplant the two LBS in town. Would that actually contribute to the overall "reduction" of LBS?