ABC Health Store Closed in 2014


     This information is a continuation of the store closing

information that was presented in the Home

Department

     This is important information for "qualified visitors

because it explains the major changes that occurred in

the American Health Stores market place throughout the

nation, and it also explains how some of those changes

had some very serious detrimental affects upon millions

of American health store customers and shoppers. 


     This department also explains what Lon and Janie

Willoughby have done to potentially help many former

health store customers and shoppers in the upstate area

of South Carolina in very important ways that can be life-

changing and maybe life-saving for some people

  
     From the beginning of their health store business in

January 1999, Lon had worked with no salary or wages

because the new business did not make enough profit

income to pay him anything (not even one dollar per

month). 


    Lon continued working with those conditions because

the natural health products store business was helping

many customers each month with their health-care

issues, and Lon realized that the work was enabling him

 to learn additional very important and valuable

natural health-care and wellness concepts.  

 

    Lon was patiently optimistic about this situation.  He

believed that he would eventually develop ways to have

enough profit margin to begin paying him a reasonable

monthly income for his very valuable store management

services and his very important natural health-care and

wellness concepts education services for store

customers.  He was also pleased that the health store

was helping a lot of customers monthly with their natural

health-care concerns.


     Lon tried to develop new ways of conducting

business, including offering free introductory natural

health-care concepts education classes in our health

store classroom.  However, nothing that he did was able

to overcome the dominating competition that had

gradually developed locally with several major competitors

and the growing Internet nutrition products sales

competition.


     Big local stores like BJ's, Costco, Sam's Club, Target,

Vitamin Shoppe, and Walmart were offering a lot of

nutrition type products for sale at discount prices.


    Lon did not understand how they could afford to

discount their product prices so much and still make a

manageable reasonable profit.

   

     Finally, during year 2013, Lon learned that the large

chain stores could buy nutrition products at much better

wholesale prices (lower prices) than small independent

health stores because the large chain type stores could

buy in large volume wholesale orders and get lower

wholesale prices for their large purchases.


     Lon finally learned that small volume wholesale

purchase orders that small independent health stores

placed with various manufacturers or product

distributors were in fact paying substantially higher

wholesale prices for the products that they purchased.


     Many years had passed before Lon learned about the

multiple tiers of wholesale prices.  He finally learned that

there was one level of wholesale price discounts for

small independent health stores - stores who would

usually place relatively small wholesale orders for each

individual brand of products that they purchased from

various nutrition companies (various brands), and there

was a much better discount price level available for large

wholesale orders (thousands of dollars), and then even

better discount wholesale prices for even larger

wholesale orders (many thousands of dollars). 


     None of the multiple nutrition product companies that

Lon had been purchasing health store type products from

for years (at there advertised wholesale prices) had

informed him about the aditional tiers of wholesales

prices that were available from their company for much 

larger product orders.  


     For many years, Lon had thought that all health stores

were getting the same wholesale prices that he was

getting with his wholesale product purchases from each

nutrition products distributing company (he purchased

several brands of products from various health product

manufacturers or their distributors).


     Consequently, for many years, Lon did not realize that

much better wholesale prices were available for large

orders (large companies and chain store businesses)

who could place very large wholesale orders to get those

better wholesale prices. 


     Chain types businesses could purchase one large

product order and then distribute those bulk buying

health store type products internally to their various 

store locations.  They could then sell those products at

discounted prices and still make reasonable profit

margins for those product sales. 


     Small independent health stores could not compete

with those discounted prices because their relatively

small wholesale purchases could not qualify for those

lower wholesale prices.


     Lon eventually learned (in year 2013) that those

situations  enabled the large chain type stores to buy

large nutrition product purchases and then sell those

health store type products at deep discount prices,

making a reduced but manageable retail profit margin.


     Grocery chain stores and pharmacy chain type stores

also started stocking more health store type nutrition

products as their customers' interest in buying those

type of products increased.


     Those chain type stores could therefore afford to sell

those health store type products at discounted prices

and still make a reduced but acceptable retail profit

margin.  

     

     There was no feasible way for ABC of Health, or other

small independent health stores, to compete with chain

type store's "discounted prices" because the small

health stores were having to pay substantially more for

products when they purchased products wholesale for

resale in their small health stores.


    Lon finally learned in year 2013 why ABC of Health

could not compete with those chain type stores

successfully.

 

    ABC of Health did not have enough wholesale buying

power to compete successfully with multi-million dollar

chain stores such as BJ's, Costco, Earth Fare, K-Mart,

Sam's Club, Target, Vitamin Shoppe, Walmart, and the

very large "Whole Foods" health food store that

had been built in Greenville (about four miles away from

the ABC of Health natural health products store). 


     After years of trying to develop ways to compete

successfully in the greatly changed marketplace, Lon

and Janie eventually realized that there was no practical

way for them to compete with the discount prices that

Internet type stores and the large local chain type stores

in the Greenville area were using to sell health store type

products.  


     Lon and Janie reluctantly decided to close the ABC of

Health natural health product store business on April 24,

2014 (near the end of their current lease contract of the

store facility).  They had been in business for 15 years

when that occurred.  (1/04/1999 to 4/24/2014) 


     Lon realized that ABC of Health was still helping

numerous customers each month, but the store had been

losing money at the rate of $2,000 to $4,000 per month

for many months (without Lon being paid anything for his

valuable health store management services and his

customer support services).


     Finally realizing that there was no practical

reasonable way of reversing those sales deficiency

situations, due to dominating competition for those sales

of health store type products, Lon and Janie closed the

ABC of Health store permanently on a date that would

give them a few days to get moved out of the store

facility by the end of their annual renewable lease term. 

     

     It was finally clear that ABC of Health did not have

sufficient wholesale buying power to compete

successfully with local chain type businesses or the

large Internet type businesses that were selling

health store type products at deep discount prices. 


     It was not possible for ABC of Health, or other small

health stores, to compete with Internet type businesses

that sold health store type products at deep discount

prices and also offered convenient free shipping for most

customer purchases.

  

     Although the ABC of Health store was closed, the

ABC of Health Corporation chose to remain in business

as a natural health-care and wellness concepts education

company

  

     Unfortunately for Lon and Janie, most people had been

getting some helpful free health-care education services

at small health stores for years, and they did not want to

start paying for the very important natural health-care

and wellness concepts consultation services that ABC of

Health was now offering education customers with Lon

Willoughby for reasonable consultation fees. 


     People who had never paid for a natural health-care

and wellness concepts consultation service did not

understand how beneficial those vital consultation

services could be to an individual or to a family unit.


     Lon and Janie found that local American adults were

literally dying prematurely without the natural health-

care and wellness concepts consultation education

services that they needed badly. 


     Citizens did not realize and understand that the vital

natural health-care and wellness concepts consultation

 services that Lon Willoughby could provide could be life-

changing education and even life-saving health-care

education for many clients.  Consequently, they

did not realize how smart and wise it would be to gladly

pay for a natural health-care and wellness consultation

service with Lon Willoughby.


     The health store market place had changed a lot, and

almost all health store customers had serious difficulty

adjusting to those changes in a responsible and sensible

manner.


 
Lon's Super Valuable

Natural Health-care Knowledge 


      Lon and Janie Willoughby realized that he had acquired a lot 

of alternative health type natural healthcare and wellness 

concepts knowledge that was very important and very valuable.


     He had worked long hours for 15+ years with no pay at all (80 

to 90 hours per week), but he had learned life-changing and life-

saving healthcare and wellness concepts knowledge that could

be very important and helpful to many American citizens.  A

stated above, hardly anyone was willing to pay a reasonable 

consultation fee to obtain vital natural healthcare and wellness

concepts education services from Lon at ABC of Health.



How could Lon continue helping American citizens?


     Lon realized that he had learned how to help many American

citizens improve their natural healthcare and wellness concepts

actions (diet, exercise, lifestyles, and nutrition supplements) in

remarkable ways that most Americans needed to know about.


     Lon and Janie realized that they needed to develop a practical

way for many Americans to obtain access to Lon's special natural

healthcare and wellness concepts knowledge.  They believed that

most American adults were capable of learning how to take much

better care of their natural healthcare assets - they just needed

some practical education about those vital healthcare issues


     Could Lon and Janie develop a natural healthcare concepts

education program that might enable them to reach out to large

numbers of adult American citizens and educate them about

some of Lon's very important and valuable alternative

health type natural healthcare and wellness concepts


     Could these two trained and experienced educators

develop a natural healthcare and wellness concepts

education program to help accomplish that objective? 


     Could such an education program be profitable enough

to enable Lon and Janie to recover some of the hundreds

of thousands of dollars that they had loaned the ABC of

Health store during its 15 years of operation? 


     They had gradually loaned all of their IRA retirement

funds to the business in order to continue operating, and

now they had no retirement funds in any IRA account.

(Remember that Lon did not receive any salary or wages

at all during those very challenging 15 years of service).


      What motivated them to try to stay in business when they

were obviously losing money in the health store business? 


     Lon and Janie realized that tens of thousands of Americans

were dying prematurely in the USA each week that passed

because those sick and diseased citizens did not have access to

Lon's natural healthcare and wellness concepts education. For

many years, Lon believed that he would develop a way to make

the business profitable.  Unfortunately, that never occurred.


     Lon gradually learned in a very expensive way that ABC of

Health did not have the large wholesale buying power that was

needed to successfully compete with multi-million dollar chain

type stores in the local area that had begun selling health store

type products at deep discount prices (BJ's, Costco, Sam's Club,

Target, Walmart, etc.). 


     Many large local chain grocery stores and many local chain

pharmacy stores were selling health store type products at

discount prices.  Lon eventually realized that ABC of Health

could no longer make adequate retail profits by trying to sell

health store type products.  It was now clear to Lon that a small

independent health store could not compete with those deeply

discounted retail prices.


     Internet businesses such as Amazon.com, and other Internet

businesses, were also selling health store type products at deep

discount prices.  There was no feasible way for small independent

health products stores to compete in the greatly changed market

place due to deeply discounted prices for health store products.


     It was clear to Lon that the days of the small independent 

health stores had unfortunately come to an end, and thousands 

of those stores had already gone out of business by year 2013

Nine local independent health stores had already closed.


     Lon realized that almost all of the small independent health

stores in America would eventually have to go out of business

because they cannot compete successfully with the discounted 

prices that were becoming easy to find in the marketplace.


     During recent years, even the franchised GNC health store

businesses have had great difficulty in the very competitive

discounted prices marketplace.  GNC has already had several

hundred nutrition products stores close (America and Canada). 


What adverse affects are these thousands of

health store closures having on consumers?


     Lon and Janie realized that millions of American consumers

are being affected harmfully by those health store closing actions.

Why?  Because consumers no longer have access to very helpful

healthcare and nutrition information that was commonly available

in thousands of small health stores throughout America.


     Many thousands of those helpful nutrition oriented and

experienced health store employees have lost their jobs with the 

closure of thousands of small independent health stores.


      Multi-million dollar businesses such as Kmart and Sears have

also gone bankrupt in this changing marketplace, along with

thousands of other small, medium, and large size businesses.


     We have had major changes in the way that many millions of

Americans do business with Internet services and other mail-

order sales companies.  Even Costco, Sam's Club, Target, and

Walmart chain stores have modified the ways they do business so

they can compete better with Internet type sales businesses.


     Yes, tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs due

to these rapidly expanding discounted price changes in America.

It is now clear that millions of health conscious shoppers can no

longer obtain important natural healthcare and wellness concepts

information that they used to be able to obtain at their local small

independent health store (now closed in thousands of locations). 


Lon and Janie Gradually 

Developed A New Business Plan


     Stay with us for a while longer to see how Lon developed our

Americans 4 Justice education programs to effectively serve the

needs of thousands of health-conscious and patriotic-minded 

American citizens that live in the upstate area of South Carolina.


   The information below presents some very important concepts

that all health conscious Americans need to understand.  Be

patient as we present some vital natural healthcare concepts.

 

     Lon gradually developed an exciting way for many American

citizens in the upstate area of South Carolina to have very

convenient access to some of Lon's very important and very

valuable alternative health type natural healthcare and wellness

concepts knowledge.  Remember that thousands of Americans

die weekly because they did not have access to Lon's vital natural

healthcare and wellness concepts education.


     Our new business plan enables many American citizens to

have much better access than ever before to Lon's special

healthcare and wellness concepts knowledge.  He can now help

many more American citizens, in much better ways and more

effective ways, than when the ABC of Health healthcare and

wellness store was in operation in Greenville County, SC.

    

     Pause and consider seriously that Americans are dying

prematurely by the tens of thousands weekly because they did

not have access to Lon Willoughby's special natural healthcare

and wellness concepts educational services


     Are you beginning to understand how important and valuable

Lon's natural healthcare and wellness concepts education can be

to an American adult and their dependent living at home children?


     Our sister educational website at ABCofHealth dot com has

been modified greatly by Lon (thousands of hours of work), and

that website now provides a lot of "free to review" natural

healthcare and wellness concepts education for Americans.


     This health education is now available to American citizens

living anywhere within the USA.  These vital natural healthcare

educational concepts can be life-changing education that can

help many American citizens at no cost ("free to review" info).


     As you continue reviewing this A4J - SC website, you will see

that our Americans 4 Justice - SC patriotic club membership is

going to improve natural healthcare education opportunities a lot

for many natural-born American citizens that live in the upstate

area of South Carolina (more than a million SC citizens). 


     Eventually, ABC of Health will expand the geographic area for 

"qualified visitors" that will be able to qualify to join our 

Americans 4 Justice private education club membership

However, in this early phase of this new A4J - SC private

education club business, we will focus our education efforts

on helping selected natural-born American citizens that live in

the upstate area - have a permanent home or residence address

that has a ZIP Code of 296 _ _ or 293 _ _


     In this manner, our A4J private education membership club will

be able to help many thousands of "qualified visitors" in South

Carolina.



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