[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Not everyone is as heartless as you..

Oh, getting personal again.

I'll leave you to it.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Not everyone is as heartless as you..

If greggs already feed the homeless and people strated protesting people not to buy the last bake of the day so all that food could go to feed the homeless then greggs pr would pick up on it and decide that rather than look bad and heartless by opposing the protest they would probably just bake some more stuff and deliver it to the homeless.

They care already, and losing the last bake of the day ain't going to bankrupt them all of a sudden, bloody shops every 50 metres in some places.

Why you have to sensationalise everything I will never know.

If a shop suddenly loses profitability, they will not.keep it open. A leaflet protest around the shop will only deter people thinking they are doing good but in the long run will cause.problems.

People are better donating to homeless charities to help homeless people at ground level

[user104658]

Actually whether or not an unprofitable shop in a chain stays open is down to the company's business strategy. You can't keep an unprofitable small business open, but you CAN keep an unprofitable chain store open if your strategy is maximum brand recognition and saturation above individual shop profit (in simplest terms... An unprofitable shop in terms of sales can still be a net gain for a large company by maintaining brand loyalty and as "advertising").

Costa for example opens and maintains less profitable shops because they're trying to push the brand currently. Nero will only maintain profitable shops hence having far fewer. Starbucks have gone down the route of having profitable branded stores and then outsourcing their brand to small businesses for loyalty and recognition (e.g. A lot of student unions serve Starbucks but the outlet is owned by the union and staff are employed by the union not Starbucks, etc).

Ye olde bookies have been keeping hugely unprofitable shops open for decades for brand saturation but that's changing, hence thousands of shops closing over the next two years.

[Amy Jade]

I prefer the veggie sausage rolls from Sayers anyways