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I don’t have any bike shop experience other than as a customer, but it does seem to me— speaking as someone who has been hanging around in bike shops since the mid-‘80s— that the market is ripe for innovative, disruptive business models.
Also, in this market, bike shop employees seem to be constituted of a good portion of long-termers and lifers. From the outside, it doesn’t seem staffing is too serious a problem here, but I don’t really know.