Compare And Contrast Funeral Home And Corporate Owned Business

When choosing a funeral home for your loved one a family is able to choose from a private-owned or corporate owned business. Many factors become important to help make the decision like size, location, quality of service, or cost. No matter each and every different circumstance, and social atmospheres. When one compares a family-owned or corporate owned funeral home, you find that the two share many things in common. This essay aims to compare and contrast both of them and help persuade to choose a family-owned funeral home.
When you think of corporate owned funeral homes, one might consider that they are bigger compared to family owned. This could be to mass produce and pump out more burials in a day. When a funeral home becomes corporate usually they open more locations and expand the business. This makes the funeral home lose the community and local
Corporate owned funeral homes become affiliated with investors and shareholders whose primary objective is to make a good return on their invested dollar. This can cause the funeral home service provided to become like a McDonald’s: fast service, but not that great of quality. Corporate owned businesses are driven and pushed to make profit. Running the business based to meet monthly quotas doesn’t allow the funeral director the time to connect with the family at a personal level. The family receives the same scripted service every other family receives with no devoted attention and just hurried along after to bring in the next cash cow. Although with the funeral home bringing in more money you could wonder if the cost of the service would be cheaper. But if you put into account the fact that there are probably more employees that have to be paid salaries maybe