Why can a tea shop or cigarette shop continue to operate without closing when there are no customers?

Products have high profits, customers stay for a short time, and are wired online stores. One thing that many people will notice when walking around on the street is that there are always some shops selling tobacco, alcohol and tea on the street. Looking from the outside, you can see that these shops are always empty. Usually there is not even a single customer. I couldn't see them, but when I walked in, I found that the salesperson and the boss inside were not worried at all. Instead, they were playing happily with their mobile phones. Why on earth? Are the people who open these tea shops and cigarette shops all the rich second generation?

In fact, this is not the case. People usually make less money than you think. The profit margins of these products are very high. For many supermarket owners, they must rely on a lot of money to make money every day. Customers come for small profits but quick turnover, but it is different for these tobacco shops. People can usually make a lot of money just by selling a bottle of wine. I have a relative who runs a cigarette shop. He said that as long as there is one customer every day, today's cost price can be offset. He said that the usual selling price of these items is basically 4 or 5 times the purchase price.

Even so, why are there so few customers in the cigarette shop? It feels like only one person goes in a day. That's because the products inside are too simple, and customers only go in to buy tea or wine because their needs are very clear.

Another reason is that the customers in these shops stay for a very short time, because everyone just goes in to buy tea or wine, and they don’t have to hang around for a long time. Finally, because most of these stores have online stores, the customers who walk into the store are individual customers. If the boss wants to make money from these people, then the store will definitely close down.