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  Well, I venture to guess that they probably thought wrong. If that's what they thought, then I see their logic based on the premise. But I think their premise was wrong, and thus the logic that followed was equally incorrect.
context: Somewhere there is a retail District Manager telling his store managers:
  “We gotta get these stores open!” >
  
  I worked at Toys R US years ago, and I got written up for not coming in during a blizzard where the state had enacted a travel ban. The store opened anyway, and my manager's response to me calling out was"well I made here so why can't you?" >
  
  All jokes aside... If nobody is on the road, who exactly does the store expect to sell to?
  I understand the drive to make sales, but if it costs you more to keep the store open (because nobody is coming in) than it does to open it, why not just close it and save the money? >
  
  That was my thought at the time but apparently they thought it was lucrative to be open.