How The Hell Are There 104 Performance Bike Retail Stores?

Soon to be significantly fewer, but still.  The Performance retail stores seemingly are uniformly generic and useless.  Who the fuck goes to a Performance store unless they have to, and when 40+ of those things close, how many places will be left with no bike shops at all?  Fucking awful.  A bazillion years ago, Performance had great inexpensive cycling shorts made in the USA, but fucked with real shops on frame and component pricing, so now if you are lucky enough to live in an area with no Performance bike stores, be happy you have real shops to patronize.