75% of them will be out of business in a few years as the people who think “sweet, easy money!” discover it’s less fun than they imagined.
Yeah, I don't know what the correct number of car washes is to have, but I swear my city has enough for every car to wash every day with capacity left over.
End result loads of carwashes doing nothing. Pretty sure it was the same reason mattress stores were everywhere at one point. You just need like 1 person to operate the store so paying their salary is nothing compared to the future appreciation of the land value.
TLDR; it’s not just you, private equity and a subscription business model.
If the gov required a full store to exclusively sell candy there'd be one on every block too.
(Also I remember reading an article somewhere about how smoke shops are an ideal "short-term tenant" for landlords. Basically they cost very little to set up and close, so they can get short-term leases while a landlord e.g. waits for a higher-rent client or for some macroeconomic winds to shift. No idea how true that is but it's floating around in my head from somewhere.)
I suppose people could also just get used to them.
You seem to not be aware that people care about what the world around them is like? Or in denial? Or you think it's unjust? I don't get it. It seems like a good thing to me.
That said, I don't plan on being drawn into this discussion any further. Keep fighting the good fight I guess.
As an aside, if you don't want loud, neon-lighted signs, you should just push for a ban on loud, neon-lighted signs. I'm not sure what it has to do with THC products.
If a dispensary opens at, say, E 14th St in Manhattan, New Yorkers will know E 14th is the place to buy weed.
So if you’re looking to open a dispensary (regulatory hurdles aside), you probably want to locate at the place New Yorkers go to get weed: E 14th.
Which isn’t to say I disagree with you, just that I don’t think we should judge them more harshly than their more traditional competitors.