I’m starting to think it’s a massive real estate scam of some sort. No way does a few candy bars and a soda generate enough profit to cover an hour of employee wages, nevermind the building utilities, property tax, etc.
How do convenience stores stay in business?
Powerball tickets/scratchies/cartons of cigarettes.
you're retarded. There's this , also retarded naggers spending EBT, shitty fast food and they're always attached to gas pumps
Stores don’t directly make money off it if they aren’t huge winners (at least in PA)
Yeah, this. It’s always the fucking annoying Poo-Fu people too.
This. I work at a convenience store, and we only make a $12 commission from each $300 book of stratch-off tickets that we sell. All lottery does is bring degenerates into the store that hold up the line and piss off other customers.
Same for tattoo parlors. How can there be so many?
Prostitution
Porn industry sends money to tattoo makers to keep them in business?
And massage parlors? Whats the appropriate tip amount for happy ending?
This is a gas station
There is only one tattoo parlor by me and it’s one of the only ones in the area. If you have a lot of tattoo parlors near you, you might want to move somewhere else because it’s probably a trashy area
Bringing in “cousins” to work there at 200k apiece
My local one got caught with a bunch of undocumented Jeets living upstairs as slave labour. It's very common.
>My local one got caught with a bunch of undocumented Jeets living upstairs as slave labour. It's very common.
This basically. Undocumented prajeets living by a group in small places and working nearly free.
Also prajeets are good at basic scams. There's going to be a bunch of counterfeit items etc.
>No way does a few candy bars and a soda generate enough profit
Shit's marked up. You pay for the "convenience."
wow. you're really fuck smart. how about you and I head on down to my barn and talk business?
There's a lot you can do with minimum wage
Gigantic 60 to 70% margins
You’re describing a vending machine
Gas stations also sell addictive shit like cigarettes and alcohol, so it’s entirely believable that they make bank
Addiction. Having to buy cigs/vapes every day adds up.
Kwik Trip's here in wisconsin are ALWAYS PACKED
I don't get it
There's usually just one person in a gas station, and it's not like they're getting paid anything good unless it's the owner doing it.
Gas stations are the go-to business for money laundering, they have high liquidity
One work truck full of Mexicans pulling a trailer of lawn equipment and you just paid the whole weeks operating cost.
Franchise is different from Mom & Pop, and dont get it twisted even Mom & Pop have like some shadowy federated franchise type shit going for them like a union or network, including ethnic ones.
This means they usually have contracts for supplies and negotiating room for wholesale like none other, when it comes to the beverage rack, they own the fridge, the beverage Co. owns the merchandise and they sell on consignment. heck most things are on consignment, they're like a brick and mortar version of a dropship company.
Nothing is fresh, very little spoilage, things they do buy are cheap, cheaper than you'd expect to pay, say 24 candy bars how much is a box at costco? like 15$ yeah no Convenience Store Co. buys them by the millions and redistributes internally so the cost for a case is like 4.50$ if that, they probably work as a middle man with Vending Machine Co. too. The real cost is losses from theft, staffing, rent.
Some places own the building or their franchise does so there's usually little issue with property development and rug pulling rent hikes, often the staff is family, and if not, well some lowly paid teenager. The last is losses from theft, which, really depends on the location, and mitigation options vary by necessity, like bullet proof shit, having anything worth more than 5$ in a locked section, etc.
They charge $3 for some corn syrup water and ice. Are you fucking dumb?
Cigarettes and alcohol
Charge $4 for energy drinks, sell negro 100’s of dollars of scratch offs, sell cigarettes and vapes. Sell ppl w/o car groceries at 400% markup.
They raking in cash dumbass
l needed change for a $10 bill. l figured l buy something in 7/11. The only item they had for less than $1 was a bag of dry-roasted almonds. Everything else in the store- small soda, coffee, gum, soft pretzel, donut, newspaper... was over $1
And you got jeeted out of $2. Correct sirs
the 7/11s in my area are all run by a big paki management group. but yeah. believe it or not, their stores consistently fare well in the county health inspections, not that l would eat any of their crap, but they score higher than expensive restaurants, steak and pizza shops, institutional dining halls etc
you don't want a restaurant with a perfect score because everything has to be cooked well done
Can I have the almonds? I need them to texture my soup.
Indians get low interest loan and buys convient store. Hires only family to work it. Cash is keep off the books, taxes aren't paid, and once the government catches up they sell the store to a cousin who repeats the process.
plenty of dumb poor people basically do their grocery shopping at places like this and pay a stupid markup on simple items daily
Every product in the store is marked up by 100%
t. retailfag
One of the midwit tells if when they cannot understand a business model so think it must be "money laundering."
Every few years they sell it to their cousin at a “loss” and hire their family on h1b1 type visas. Most don’t even own the pumps
Their margins are probably 10x larger than a supermarket. I know many gas stations make basically nothing on the fuel and run on their shop.
Selling gas... That's literally it. I've talked to one of the owners of ampm (arco) and asked how much it costs to open one, he said about 3 million and most of the profit is from gas
There's a convenience store at the end of the block, always see Mexicans and negroids buying a 12 of dos xx, or tall boys.
There's a grocery store no more then 2 miles away that would save you 5$ on that same 12pack
>math is for whites only
They're in debt. Most small businesses are parasites 1 week away from going bust.
are you dumb? there's a reason why everything is always more expensive in these places.
see that is the magic of capitalism