A Bit of Clubonomics
It's early 2009. If you're in the U.S. and many places in the industrialized world, your economy is in a little bit of a slump. Actually, if you're in the U.S. the economy is in the crapper and businesses all around are taking it in the shorts. Strip clubs included. So if you're the proprietor of a certain type of establishment, what do you do? Does the typical manager of a middle to high tier strip club have an MBA? I don't have any real insight into that (and don't have one either). I'm more concerned with the customer side of it myself, given that I'm a customer. To the point. In clubs where I spend a buck or two on a semi-regular basis, as the economy has tanked the prices have not gone down but up. I'll give two examples. Both in Maryland. The first has a couple of things going for it. It is just outside of Northern DC, and as is widely known DC has been the freaking armpit of the strip club world for quite some time. Taking one last run through