..And the assumption that somebody who can afford to travel has disposable income enough to afford to pay more.
Its ALWAYS the bandaid on the bleeding stump of the severed arm that confuses me about life in Britain.
A store a tenth of the size of my small shop costs the equivalent of our rent. Footfall is greater of course - you are in a busy station after all.
Here's my rule of supply and demand versus cost and convenience. Over footfall.
YES. IT WILL BE MORE EXPENSIVE. You can only make it up in volume if the person you are renting off doesn't assume you will make it up in volume and price accordingly. At that point you can only make it up by charging more. Do you think the Huddersfield station shop is coining it in selling half a dozen newspapers now Transpennine cancels half their trains?
Answer: he's not.
You think all these Pumpkin franchises are vacant because the owners of Pumpkin made out like bandits and retired to the Bahamas?
Answer: they did not.
It's just another retail myth you are being sold, that you DESERVE everything at the LOWEST price with the BEST service and the MOST convenience. Because the iron triangle is a thing. And that extra 5p or quid makes that unit semi affordable instead of vacant.