Hey Doc

Should there be a time limit on how long an "Out of Business Sale" can go on? There is a clothing store in our building who is having OBS for the pass two months and I don't see any end of it. I live one block away from one of the busiest districts in Taipei city. There must be thousands of small shops trying to make a living here. From the stuff I read, the rent for a store front on this street is astronomical. That is why I see stores change hands so often. Imagine how many cups of coffee or how many bowls of noodle do you have to sell to even pay the rent. There are some exceptions because they have been there for as long as I know. I think part of it is they must had a lock on lower rent since they have been there for a long time.
It is quite interesting to see how fast a store can change from one to another. Once the construction starts, it takes a day or two to completely gut the place. Depends on the lay out of the new store, a week to two weeks, a brand new store will re-appear. The workers normally work over 12 hours a day 7 days a week. Jobs are hard to come by so some will just accepted as the fact.
I am so used to being constantly reminded about safety when I worked at Intel, I always using the same standards to evaluate what I see. Safety is not always on the top of these people's priority list. Many were due to the lack of education and some were just felt as inconvenience.

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