That's a 9%return, four times what a conventional high-overhead retail grocer typically earns.
But wholesale growing escapes the high overhead of retail marketing in urban areas, and, although many growers do sell stock at the nursery, they generally avoid the expensive merchandising required of the typical urban-area garden centre.
Now that fast broadband connections are commonplace and people feel more comfortable shopping online, it's a profitable business without the overheads of retail.
Nikki Kule, who began selling her line of children's clothes in September, sees trunk shows as a way to reach the customer directly without having to rely on reluctant department store buyers or pay the high overhead of a retail store.
Although their wares are manufactured in the same facilities as upscale lines like Lanvin and Balenciaga, the goal is to create high quality goods while keeping the price point low by cutting out retail overhead.
The city's ground level is surrendered to cars, while pedestrians scuttle between air-conditioned retail hubs overhead.
And given the low-cost, high-convenience nature of these games (from both the developers' and players' perspectives), there's much less overhead than with their retail peers.
It earns margins through volume and by ditching the retail pharmacy overhead.
Looking to differentiate itself from its rivals, it was among the first to offer warehousing services to cut its retail customers' overhead.
There are ways to find out, particularly if you work in the service industry and don't require the overhead of, say, a retail store.
Looking to differentiate itself from a crowd of rivals, the company was among the first to offer warehousing services in order to cut its retail customers' overhead.
