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Default Bakery closed -- as predicted

On 7/21/2017 8:28 AM, graham wrote:
> On 2017-07-21 9:22 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> About six months ago there was an ad for a new bakery opening in the
>> town next to us. I read the ad and my wife and I figured it would be
>> gone in a few months.
>>
>> Hours:
>> Closed Sunday
>> Closed Monday
>> Tuesday to Saturday 6:30 to 1:30
>>
>> Unless it is a hobby, a business cannot sustain itself on those hours.
>> It is across the street from a Church and would probably get a lot of
>> customers after Mass.
>>
>> She did make breakfast sandwiches and had coffee. They did not make
>> bread. The pastries were OK, nothing exceptional. The pies though,
>> were fantastic. The crust was nice and flaky, the filling was plentiful
>> and tasty, the price only $12.
>>
>> I went this morning hoping to score a good pie. The place is closed,
>> some of the furnishings moved out.

>
> Some people have no head for business!
> I know of a former coffee bar in a small town on the west coast. It was
> not doing very well financially so the owners increased the prices! It
> soon went belly-up!
> Graham
>



I guess they thought they were Apple.