Why do Bakeries have the highest failure rate out of businesses?

>>2249568

probably because the people that go into bakery lack necessary business skills

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>>2249568
Women who open a bakery because they think they're good at it have shit business sense.

America is full of fat fucks but they won't pay more than what Wal Mart charges. Bakeries have extremely narrow profit margins and baked goods have short shelf-lives.

Mom and pop food stores are completely dominated by food chains and supermarkets.

>>2249594
>>2249600
You say the lack of business skills but what does that mean?

>>2249611
>>2249618
So because you can get a pie at Walmart for $5?
But what if you wanted a pie that doesn't taste like pure preservatives?

>>2249625
>But what if you wanted a pie that doesn't taste like pure preservatives?
You make it yourself or significant other make it for you.

>>2249568
Because most bakeries are trying to handle special orders for the most part. They get started up by women that think they can just make a bunch of cakes all day and play with the frosting and all that. Problem is, you don't get people wanting cake that often.

Some tried doing things a bit differently by doing cupcakes so that they could mass produce something small that people could eat in a sitting, but there's not that many locations where it makes sense. Maybe around some higher end restaurants that make it reasonable to go out afterwards for some small high end treat.

What some bakeries will do though, is they'll sell dessert items to restaurants. So you'll never walk into such a bakery and purchase something as they don't even setup some storefront. They just do everything in the back and are sending items out.

Also the idea that all America is fat as fuck is a bit misleading as there's an aging population plus Hispanics/blacks who are often overweight. Places to buy cake would hardly be popular in those circumstances.

What's truly odd is that there aren't many bakeries that deal in bread.

Bread can be made in massive amounts by a proper baker with relative ease in comparison to something like a cake. I suspect this is why bakeries do so poorly, they don't come out with items like bread that you'd eat everyday that could then tempt the buyer to get something else like a confection.

>>2249568
It's usually the poor people who are fat, because they can't afford/aren't educated about nutritious food and live such shitty lives that they console themselves with calories which is a lot cheaper than say buying Louboutin shoes or flying to Majorca.

>>2249625
>But what if you wanted a pie that doesn't taste like pure preservatives?
Well then you answered your own question: there isn't enough people who don't like shitty preservative tasting cakes and pies to make your average bakery profitable.

>>2249625
Things like understanding demand, opportunity cost, profit margins, etc. Hell, most of the time these women don't even know that they shouldn't bake because their family isn't going to tell them their cooking tastes like shit.

because i can buy the same thing at Walmart for <50% of the cost.