Yep, we have really expensive fashion boutiques on the promenade where I live. Nobody seems to enter and shop there. Ever. There’s usually a shopkeeper, female, who sits there all day, adjusting the clothes.
A lot of investment bankers’ wives open up fashion boutiques that see little to no business, it’s a write off for taxes. Not technically a front in the strictest terms.
… and once every three years or so it turns into a solarium or something for a couple of months and then reverts back to a boutique.
At least that’s how it works here.
We have those too, but it’s too central and high-profile for them to be fronts. I’ve just assumed that because they’re so obscenely expensive (which they are) they don’t need to sell much volume to turn a profit.
It’s a shame though, because it’s a really nice area, and there used to be a bunch of shops there that were reasonably priced, so us mortals could shop there. It was bustling, now it’s crickets and rich people.
Yep, we have really expensive fashion boutiques on the promenade where I live. Nobody seems to enter and shop there. Ever. There’s usually a shopkeeper, female, who sits there all day, adjusting the clothes.
A lot of investment bankers’ wives open up fashion boutiques that see little to no business, it’s a write off for taxes. Not technically a front in the strictest terms.
… and once every three years or so it turns into a solarium or something for a couple of months and then reverts back to a boutique. At least that’s how it works here.
We have those too, but it’s too central and high-profile for them to be fronts. I’ve just assumed that because they’re so obscenely expensive (which they are) they don’t need to sell much volume to turn a profit.
It’s a shame though, because it’s a really nice area, and there used to be a bunch of shops there that were reasonably priced, so us mortals could shop there. It was bustling, now it’s crickets and rich people.