Cleanup in Aisle Lunatic (h/t romad1)

[oblong]

7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

The old Lowe's/Home Depot, or Advance Auto Parts strategy. Build a store so they have to pass yours before reaching the competition  

Burger King's too.  McDonald's went to great care to find good spots, Burger King said, "Wait for them then build across the street".

 

[romad1]

this is going well

 

 

[mtutiger]

23 hours ago, romad1 said:

Yeah, don't listen to this twerp.  

I disagree, I would feel totally owned if Ben Shapiro was made one of the top surrogates for the Trump Camp Pain this cycle lol

[Tigerbomb13]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

speaking of genius US business planning

 

They are still popping up everywhere too. New one going up in A2 here in a closed Chuck-E-Cheese

[mtutiger]

3 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

They are still popping up everywhere too. New one going up in A2 here in a closed Chuck-E-Cheese

In the small community we moved into in the exurbs of Chicago (pop. 25000ish), there's about four Dollar Generals within a 5 mile radius.... including two that are literally 2 miles down the road from one another.

Just doesn't seem all that sustainable to me, but what do I know?

[mtutiger]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

LOL Dollar General has probably built at least one new store for every one Family Dollar is going to close.

Well, they say in economics that all 'Dollars' are fungible......

Not sure if this is the case in MI, but they also seem to love buying / leasing old Family Video locations...

Edited March 13, 2024 by mtutiger

[Motown Bombers]

9 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Not sure if this is the case in MI, but they also seem to love buying / leasing old Family Video locations...

Yeah they are in about every Family Video building. They are like cockroaches. 

[Tigerbomb13]

11 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Not sure if this is the case in MI, but they also seem to love buying / leasing old Family Video locations...

Yep! The Family Video by my parents’ house in Roseville is now a Dollar General. 

[Motown Bombers]

13 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

In the small community we moved into in the exurbs of Chicago (pop. 25000ish), there's about four Dollar Generals within a 5 mile radius.... including two that are literally 2 miles down the road from one another.

Just doesn't seem all that sustainable to me, but what do I know?

I got two Walmarts on the same road two miles from each other. I'm buried in Walmarts and dollar stores.

[oblong]

Strip Malls are the worst.  The other day we went to a new place to eat, new for us, in Taylor by Southland.  Across the was a near empty Strip Mall that once housed a sporting good store, Kids R Us, Coney Island, SHoe places, etc. with a nice Star Theater as an anchor.  Now it's near empty.  A hockey store (which I think is still thriving due to being in Downriver) and a Burlington Coat Factory, which has degenerated into a very bad place to shop.  The rest of it is empty.  

 

[Edman85]

3 minutes ago, oblong said:

Strip Malls are the worst.  The other day we went to a new place to eat, new for us, in Taylor by Southland.  Across the was a near empty Strip Mall that once housed a sporting good store, Kids R Us, Coney Island, SHoe places, etc. with a nice Star Theater as an anchor.  Now it's near empty.  A hockey store (which I think is still thriving due to being in Downriver) and a Burlington Coat Factory, which has degenerated into a very bad place to shop.  The rest of it is empty.  

 

Last week, I had a haircut scheduled around lunch time, so went to a local Cuban chain's spot near my barber to pick up lunch. It was in a stripmall. The adjacent store was a crematorium.

 

 

[romad1]

2 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Last week, I had a haircut scheduled around lunch time, so went to a local Cuban chain's spot near my barber to pick up lunch. It was in a stripmall. The adjacent store was a crematorium.

 

 

those must be busy in Florida

[chasfh]

24 minutes ago, oblong said:

Strip Malls are the worst.  The other day we went to a new place to eat, new for us, in Taylor by Southland.  Across the was a near empty Strip Mall that once housed a sporting good store, Kids R Us, Coney Island, SHoe places, etc. with a nice Star Theater as an anchor.  Now it's near empty.  A hockey store (which I think is still thriving due to being in Downriver) and a Burlington Coat Factory, which has degenerated into a very bad place to shop.  The rest of it is empty.  

 

I used to hang out at Tech Plaza when I was a kid. I would play pinball at Cunningham's; go to Kresge or Kmart for a frozen coke or cherry (small: 15¢; large: 25¢, plus a penny tax) or a coke and fries (under a buck!); flip through albums at Music Man; read some books at Metro Bookstore; maybe get a hot fudge sundae at Sanders or a chili dog at Grecian Palace. Anytime we needed new clothes, mom would take us to Penney's or Thom McAn. Dad would get new tires at the Firestone. There was even a Kmart Foods grocery store there for a time. Now ... a complete dump. A Walmart and I don't know what else. Bombers could probably tell us what's still there.

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, Edman85 said:

Last week, I had a haircut scheduled around lunch time, so went to a local Cuban chain's spot near my barber to pick up lunch. It was in a stripmall. The adjacent store was a crematorium.

 

 

I'd order vegetarian.

[Motor City Sonics]

8 hours ago, oblong said:

This should look very familiar to MCS:

 

 

I remember walking in there and seeing Dollar Tree on one side and Family Dollar and for about 10 seconds I thought I had stumbled onto a portal into an alternate universe.    And I thought if the alternate universe still had a dollar store on the same spot than I probably wouldn't be better off, so I stayed on the Family Dollar side.   Then I heard another customer ask about it and they said it was a merger, then I realized I hadn't unlocked the door to the multiverse, so I paid for my 3 beef & cheese sticks (which cost twice as much at a "convenience" store and I departed.      

[VegasTiger]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

I'd order vegetarian.

Is that normally listed in the obituary?

[Tigerbomb13]

I think we know the only person more thin skinned than Trump. 

[Motor City Sonics]

Aaron Rodgers on the list to be RFK Jr's running mate?         LOL.     He's now sharing Sandy Hook conspiracies.   Perfect choice.  

[pfife]

[Motown Bombers]

I wish I had the skills to photoshop Biden onto Kerby Joseph in this gif. 

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

I wish I had the skills to photoshop Biden onto Kerby Joseph in this gif. 

I was so hoping at that moment that we had ended Aaron Rodgers' career.

[romad1]

37 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I was so hoping at that moment that we had ended Aaron Rodgers' career.

In retrospect the untimed down after the "facemask" game was a lot like January 6th. 

[romad1]

Glad to see the crazies in other countries are being contained to some extent 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

I was so hoping at that moment that we had ended Aaron Rodgers' career.

He has yet to complete a pass since then.

[CMRivdogs]