going out of business after being established 140 years ago and they’re calling that failure. some people just can’t pat themselves on the back huh
To be fair, they probably inherited the place and got to be the lucky person it closed down under, which probably doesn’t feel great.
At least, it’d raise some eyebrows if its had the same owner since 1883.
I ran a DnD campaign where an important shop was under the same owner for over 1000 years, a friendly copper dragon shapeshifted into a halfling, who discovered trading with adventurers was the best way to amass a hoard, they would go all over the world finding interesting things that they have no idea of the true value of, could you believe they’d trade this neat spider statuette that may or may not be mildly cursed for a boring old ring of protection because it “has no practical use” and it “makes them dream of the whisperings of elder gods”?
Inherit a business that been successful for over a hundred years, and be the one to fuck it up so badly they have to close it down? Maybe they should feel bad.
I have no sympathy for anyone inheriting entire businesses.
something something no wrong moves and still lose
There’s a reason that, were it ever to happen, I’d stop at SVP level and not jump to C level.
Just a pet peeve of mine, it’s like complaining the Jedi couldn’t stop Palpatine and that means they’re all idiots with a silly religion or something.
They were the guardians of a multispecies Republic for ten THOUSAND years, and they curb stomped the Sith Empire everytime it tried to start shit. They clearly knew what they were doing.
What was the alternative? Seizing direct control of the government? Executing every Senator that looked a little corrupt?
Palatine played a game they couldn’t counter without destroying themselves in the process. Sometimes you just lose…
Sometimes you can make all the right decisions and still lose. That’s not called failure, that’s called life.
- Captain Picard
was it 10 thousand years now? in the movies they alternate between saying “a thousand years” or “a thousand generations.” i mean, either way i think your point stands, but still
Disney has canonized the Rakatan Empire so for now it’s assumed all the Old Republic works and timelines are canon(ish).
The Old Republic was actually 25,000 years old, I misremembered, but there was a period about a thousand years before the OT it was dissolved and then a different Republic was formed that… did everything exactly the same?
The result is people largely ignoring that stumble in its timeline.
There was a furniture store a couple of blocks away from a place where we used to rent an apartment. We lived there for 8 years and a going out of business sign was up the entire time.
I don’t think i have ever seen a furniture store without a liquidation sale sign
I genuinely fucking hate “local” furniture stores. That industry seems slimier than car sales honestly. Sell dog shit quality products for hundreds to thousands of dollars and then are allowed to act like they are going out of business constantly. There are always furniture stores around me having “liquidation sales” and “going out of business sales” and literally none of them have ever gone out of business. If anything, they usually raise their prices before their next sale.
Ashley Furniture in my home town has been going out of business since before I was 18, I’m now 32.
And you can often find the EXACT same items on eBay for a tenth of the price.
Taco Bell down the road from me has had their large sign out front saying “now hiring closers” for going on 4+ years now. Of course they haven’t considered treating employees well and paying them fairly, yet. Prices went up though! Also this is in a very large city with no shortage of people who need work.
A rug shop near me spent from before 1990 though to 2010 “closing down” then they suprised everyone by closing down. They moved to a cheaper shopping centre, and have been operating there ever since
The same 80% discount they had always advertised was in action during the lead up to their move, and continues today
I wouldn’t call that failure. That’s a pretty good run.
Exactly, the average company lasts around 15 to 20 years. Even very big companies are hovering at around 25 (with a tendency to go down).
Yeah, they really did have a good run worthy of being proud of. I think a lot of people subconsciously think the businesses they see every day will be around forever, forgetting that nothing lasts forever. Least of all an entity whose driving goal is just to make money by any means possible for an aimless mob of shareholders headed by sociopathic elites. Any means possible isn’t how you build the foundation of something that lasts decades or longer like this business.
What’s really funny to me is how the same people who scream about survival of the fittest in capitalism are the first to approve of corporate bailouts. I’m starting to call it corporate socialism to see if it makes them hate bailouts due to the dreaded “s” word.
To be honest I really just don’t think there’s a place for Doctor Jack Phillip’s Wooden Dentures in this world anymore. Shame to see them close down.
Sometimes it’s a little more complicated than failing to adapt.
Sometimes there are challenges that happen that small business owners just can’t overcome. Things like the price of the rent for the commercial space that goes up 200% because it became a prime location. People stop shopping at a small shop because the prices are a bit higher than mega stores like Walmart who can afford to have smaller profits on sales due to the amount they sell or even Amazon.
Next thing you know, these small shops that support your local neighborhood and pay the local taxes disappear and the big mega corporations, who are registered in tax havens and pay minimum taxes, take their place because they can afford it.
