Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Old Business Plan....

I was just reading a blog by a woman, Kelli, who moved to New York City last year and in one post she mentioned $6 for Cheerios in Manhattan.  I'm only paying $5 (plus tax) here in Brooklyn...

But it reminded me of a similar situation a little over a decade ago when I lived in Beaverton, Oregon and worked for First Insight in Portland, Oregon, before the office moved out to Hillsboro...

A bunch of my coworkers lived in student housing in downtown Portland.  They were paying significantly higher for Nestle Quik chocolate milk mix in downtown Portland than I was paying out in the suburbs.  So for a while I was buying it for $4.99 and selling it to them for $5 in the office.

When the boss announced the office was moving and that everyone who lived in downtown Portland would be moving out to apartments in Hillsboro (and consequently shopping at the same store I shopped at) I told him it wasn't fair, that he was putting me out of business, and explained that I had a good business plan in place, earning $0.01 per tub of Quik, with my expectations for my friends to drink 30,000 glasses of chocolate milk a month, each...