Sometimes spending more dollars on the front end can save you a whole a lot more on the backend. I want to challenge you to think about the bigger perspective as it relates to the decisions and investments we make. This journey will require us to dig a little deeper. Challenge ourselves to become educated with the residual outcomes that are generated because of the decisions we make (or not make) in our business. The difficultly arises because the answers are not always obvious and often elusive. I would trust most of us would agree that the stone industry is a much more complicated beast than it may appear on the surface. Bottom line — determining the true total cost (or benefit) of ownership as it pertains to our decisions is worth the effort to investigate.
If you do not have any glaring obvious areas to explore as it relates to this topic, I would suggest these two areas and in this priority of order: