Not every station owner can add $100k in overhead and have any profit left.
Unless the police take care of this or this gang gets thinned considerably, this man is out of business.
“hire an off-duty cop to guard the store”
You said - “Not every station owner can add $100k in overhead and have any profit left.”
A voice of reason at last.
Somebody needed to say it. “off duty cops” don’t come cheap. Simplistic solutions never are as simple as they sound.
The owner himself may not be netting as much as he’d have to pay for security.
“Not every station owner can add $100k in overhead and have any profit left.
Unless the police take care of this or this gang gets thinned considerably, this man is out of business.”
Yep.
Probably the best thing this guy could do would be to just gather up what stock he could remove, lock the doors, declare bankruptcy if necessary — and then move out for greener pastures somewhere, ANYwhere else…
There comes a time when one just has to stare reality in the face. And the “reality” of this situation is that Detroit isn’t any place to try and run a business like this.