[jmen24]

Each item was intended to be a seperate thing describing each of their stores, I did not do a good job of making that clear.

But you asked so what stores?

Nashua has three stores, all do up to and over a million a week, Tueskbury has three stores (all on the same road if I remember correctly), all do up to and over a million a week. They put in additional stores in the same area because the demand for them is there. Londonderry is close to a million a week and Fort Eddy in Concord is over, I can tell you that the Hooksett store will do just as well with little suffering to the other two.

Tilton was put in that location to draw from the east, west and north. The Swanzey store will pull from the western corner of the state including Keene. Claremont pulls from VT, but is not a very busy store compared with the other major areas, Warner is the same way, those are niche markets, Claremont is old and Warner is new and was put in place to bridge the gap between Concord and Claremont.

The Stores st location has such a high volume of "on foot" traffic from downtown Concord that it will probably always remain.

Salem and Chelsey are in a league of their own as far as weekly volume. I know these stores are not located near each other but if you have been into them you can understand why they have more than one location in other communities.

Just a little more. MB is a family run and owned company that is aware of every penny that passes through the company. They do not decide on new store locations by placing a pin on a map. They will not put an additional store in the same area unless it is needed. This is a company that on the retail sector out performs some national retail companies on annual sales volume, this is not their first big paper route.

Shaws on Fort Eddy road is closing soon because the company thought they could pull from two sides of the street by placing a second location at the top of the heights, well it did not work out so well, five years after the new store opened the original store is a ghost town.