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worth next to nothing
Offered much less than market value of franchise
Sunk Cost Fallacy: very hard to resist putting good money after bad
Sunk costs: franchisee's trapped capital keeps them chained to treadmill
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Competition and Consumer Commission, ACCC, Lease controlled by franchisor, Leasehold improvements worth next to nothing, Only interested in good news stories, When the franchisor tanks, so does
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to fail as franchise investment
Forced to invest in unproven concept
Leasehold improvements worth next to nothing
Offered much less than market value of franchise
Sunk Cost Fallacy: very hard to resist putting good money after bad
Sunk costs: franchisee's trapped capital keeps them chained to treadmill
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are an important source of franchisor revenue
Lease obligations make franchisees pay even if not in business
Leasehold improvements worth next to nothing
Legal fees big part of total loss
Legal fees unpaid
Legalized
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are used to finance franchise leasehold improvements and assets. I was told to my face in a meeting with a director of one of the very large banks in Canada that franchising is the most lucrative
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because her lease ran out, she had to pay for leasehold improvements.
“Of course, you have to go into debt to do that. That makes it very hard. It is a system which is set up so that you can never get
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years ago.
Canadian Jewish News
December 23, 1999
Jewish criminals are really nothing new
Morton Weinfield
No one wants to start the so-called new millennium on a sour note. But it seems to me
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and again, these people get caught.
The Globe and Mail
April 5, 2001
Insider trading is often not worth the cost
Andrew Willis
Why do they do it?
Again and again, we've seen professionals entrusted
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and investments evaporate.
"I've lost my business, my reputation, quite a number of my business associates," he told the hearing. "I've lost my family. I've lost my self-esteem, my self-worth. I have nothing
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predator, we are the prey.
The Globe and Mail
January 16, 1999
The psychopath next door
You may think that the only monsters are psychopaths. In reality, they can be apparently normal people with whom
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