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that's the model, and it's something that we've learned the hard way in the states starting quite some time ago.
it's the entire principle of the franchise. one shop/gas station/adult bookstore turns enough profit to support another shop/gas station/adult bookstore while it pushes out the competition in a new area because it doesn't even have to break even, living, as it does, off the profits of the first.
once the competition is eliminated, the franchise can hike prices again, until two shops/gas stations/adult bookstores turn enough profit to support two more and so forth, growing exponentially like a blight. it's actually a very savvy way to thwart the precepts of free enterprise capitalism.
be gald y'all are short of space here, because in the u.s. this has meant a devastation of the inner city and the dreaded sprawl.