<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6815742#post6815742 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wwildcats04
how does AA live stock suck? They get fish in that you cant always find every place else and have them on a regular basis. How many stores do you go to that have chevron tangs, moorish idols, blue spot gobies and such in? Also Im not sure if any of you went in and saw the show achiles tangs and naso tangs, now a pink throat trigger. Your right there prices are a little high, get a fish club and they are the same price as every place else. It is not fare to be comparing a store to an online place as far as prices there is no possible way they can compare, Im sorry but it wont happen anywhere you go. Byerlys is just as expensive with stuff Im sorry but they are and their tanks always look like ****. think about how many more employes work at AA and how big the store is and all of that, it also is in a prime location... therefore to pay the bills to keep the store operational they have to have slightly higher prices....
how does AA live stock suck?
Those little white spots on the fish aren't Zits, its Ick, and untreatable in a reef tank.
The corals should have flesh extending over the entire skeleton, not just a little tuft and the rest colonized with hair algae.
They get fish in that you cant always find every place else and have them on a regular basis. How many stores do you go to that have chevron tangs, moorish idols, blue spot gobies and such in? Also Im not sure if any of you went in and saw the show achiles tangs and naso tangs, now a pink throat trigger.
Three actually. For comparison Aquatic Technology sells their Morish Idols for $59.99 and Show size Naso for $159.99
Your right there prices are a little high, get a fish club and they are the same price as every place else
Not even close. plus toe other places don't gouge me, nor do they require me to pay a premium to be gouged a little less.
It is not fare to be comparing a store to an online place as far as prices there is no possible way they can compare, Im sorry but it wont happen anywhere you go.
True but I am sure everyone will agree that they are willing to pay to have access to reliable information, something AA is sorely lacking. b) its keeping the money local, AA is a subsidary of the Petland national pet store chain.
Byerlys is just as expensive with stuff Im sorry but they are and their tanks always look like ****.
No they don't and you are showing niaveti to say the tanks look like crap, they look mature. AA tanks with their Cyano fields looks like crud.
think about how many more employes work at AA and how big the store is
SO, I can hire 50crack heads, whats your point...
Bigger isn't better if you waste space on a black hole like AA does with their aquarium show area. Even if they sell 100 aquariums over a year, they will still loose money in that area that has to be made up on the sale of other things.
it also is in a prime location... therefore to pay the bills to keep the store operational they have to have slightly higher prices....
LOL that is possibly the DUMBEST thing I have ever heard. Thats an example of a ****-poor buisness plan. If they had a descent buisness plan they should be beating their compeditors on price, then killing them with the volume of sales that location generates.
