Small Business Owners Battling Exorbitant Rent Increases

I was in the business of showing people what sarcasm was and how to use it in forums. Unfortunately there was too many customers and it just wore me out trying to explain it.

rosscoact said :

G-Fresh said :

Small Business crying poor?

Bahhahahahahaha Good one!

You lot get too much assistance.

Yep, it’s all wine and roses in small business. Set up then sit back and watch the bucks roll in. Why on earth would anyone work for wages.

Please tell us all what small business sector you were in and what was your management style that made you so successful.

rosscoact said :

G-Fresh said :

Small Business crying poor?

Bahhahahahahaha Good one!

You lot get too much assistance.

Yep, it’s all wine and roses in small business. Set up then sit back and watch the bucks roll in. Why on earth would anyone work for wages.

Try paying some taxes relative to your equity/income like the rest of us then you might get some sympathy.

G-Fresh said :

Small Business crying poor?

Bahhahahahahaha Good one!

You lot get too much assistance.

Yep, it’s all wine and roses in small business. Set up then sit back and watch the bucks roll in. Why on earth would anyone work for wages.

Small Business crying poor?

Bahhahahahahaha Good one!

You lot get too much assistance.

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

dungfungus said :

The days of the large shopping malls are numbered.
On-line sales (massively understated by the federal government who are costing the states and territories cruical revenue by refusing to the collect GST being lost) and retail models like Costco have already changed the sector for ever.
My (free) advice to any commercial tenant is to review your situation now.

This is a good thing. We have been bent over by retail for years. They can either lower their prices or die off.

Just make sure that your super fund hasn’t got any shopping mall shares in your portfolio before you give momentum to the idea.

dungfungus said :

The days of the large shopping malls are numbered.
On-line sales (massively understated by the federal government who are costing the states and territories cruical revenue by refusing to the collect GST being lost) and retail models like Costco have already changed the sector for ever.
My (free) advice to any commercial tenant is to review your situation now.

This is a good thing. We have been bent over by retail for years. They can either lower their prices or die off.

The days of the large shopping malls are numbered.
On-line sales (massively understated by the federal government who are costing the states and territories cruical revenue by refusing to the collect GST being lost) and retail models like Costco have already changed the sector for ever.
My (free) advice to any commercial tenant is to review your situation now.

enrique said :

Nice rant! Did you wake up after a big night out/poor night’s sleep and just start mashing your keyboard. Forgive me for asking but I can’t help but thinking that since there is not much context or structure to your rambling there…

Anyway, don’t worry too much – It’ll all sort itself in the end… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand

Market economics at play is all really.

Here’s another one for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_power

Westfield and Centro have a near duopoly – one of the many reasons why everything costs so damn much in this country – rents are passed on to consumers.

Whar narks me is how the Queensland Investment Corporation has so much control over so much retail space in Civic, and therefore over the whole dynamic of Civic – e.g driving retailers towards Canberra Centre and leaving much of the rest of Civic a derelict wasteland. If they had a stake in the quality of life here, things might look different, with all due respect to the invisible hand.