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Always nice to see business growing earning and dividend which I have quite a few but business can't grow earnings all the time, at some stage, it slows or going slightly backwards or whatever cycle the world throw at it.

I am more interested in how profitable are each store? growing and decline earning goes from cycle to cycle
If stores are reasonably profitable you can chuck along, get the cash flow and give you time to try things and market and all sort of business activities to drive the increased sale.

At the current price, there isn't much downside as long as the stores are profitable which I think they are, they have their core customers like pensioners, unemployed and people with low cash.

Hold and get dividend and wait for better in years in 18 and beyond