Health Care Law Forces Businesses to Consider Growth’s Costs [1]by Stacy Crowley at The New York Times
When LaRonda Hunter opened a Fantastic Samshair salon [2] 10 years ago in Saginaw, Tex., a suburb of Fort Worth, she envisioned it as the first of what would eventually be a small regional collection of salons. As her sales grew, so did her business, which now encompasses four locations — but her plans for a fifth salon are frozen, perhaps permanently.
“The margins are not big enough within our industry to support it,” she said. “It’s not that I don’t want to — I love my employees, and I want to do everything I can for them — but the numbers just don’t work.”
HKO- how hard was this to predict