Retail stores are insanely expensive and have limited clients in the local area. The few pennies SEO costs doesn't even cover the TP in the restroom of a retail store.
The costs of a regional sales support information/service structure is gone too. This is a top-down, hierarchical model. A customer feedback loop is almost unnecessary, because MT has purchased the imprimatur of (former) flagship brands with innovative images, then offer de-contented mirages of prior value at irresistible initial prices.
This works in short term and is no doubt very profitable, but exactly zero of the MT portfolio brands have any kind of elevated respect, desirability, or status since acquisition.
A global Carvin.
