Man-Friendly Stores

So the lovely wife and I spent most of the day at the Outlets in Smithfield, NC. For those of you who haven't been there, it's fairly typical as most outlet shopping centers go. The store composition was what one would expect:

52% - clothing stores
33% - stores involving dishes and various household items
11% - shoe stores
4% - other (i.e. man friendly stores)

As you may have noticed, only 4% of these stores are what we would call "man friendly." In other words, these are the stores that men WOULD go into without being dragged in by their wives, girlfriends, or mothers.

This is a problem.

You see, by only providing 4% of stores to service 50% of the population, the owners of these outlet malls are shooting themselves in the foot. It's really simple economics...if the demand is there, then the supply must change to go with it. Actually, that's not really an economic premise, but it sounded good...so just go with it.

Do I think such a change will occur? Probably not. But I can hope...