One of life's saddest things is the new store that is doomed

[kalrith]

We have a building in town like this. I'd say 2-3 restaurants come and go every year.

 

[PepePeru]

We have a building in town like this. I'd say 2-3 restaurants come and go every year.

Every city seems to have one of those.

In a local building, a restaurant went in with the name, "Dirty Joe's Seafood"

Yeah, 3 months later, it was gone.

Imagine that, a seafood (or any restaurant) named "Dirty Joe's" failing.

 

[Aquaman]

If you want to see something crazy........ got to the Tung Choi street in Hong Kong (well the Mong Kok district in Kowloon).

There they have an entire street (about 2 blocks long) packed side by side with Aquarium stores

How they stay in business I do not know (well maybe because there are like 7 million people in HK)

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[nageov3t]

Chocolate shops with expensive chocolates are all the rage. Especially if they have sprayed-on colors and a glossy finish on the chocolates and cliched flavors like mango chili.

candy is almost always a safe gift and it's not something that a lot of people want to take the risk in buying online (not knowing what they're getting, potential to get damaged in shipping, etc)

 

[nageov3t]

they don't even have a niche? Confused....like are they specialized chotskies at least?

nope, and that's kinda what confuses me... even amazon started making their name by specializing in books.

 

[PingSpike]

isn't that on an infomercial?

"These products literally sell themselves!"

yeah, because everyone is lining up to buy a plastic figurine of a toad sitting on a log, holding a fishing pole.

So THAT is how Christmas Tree Shop stays in business.




Seriously though. WTF with Christmas Tree Shop. I hate that fucking dump full of awful Chinese garbage but that place is always packed (with fat old ladies).

 

[MikeMike]

Fronts! thats what a lot of these are!

 

[torpid]

Independent restaurants are nice because the food's unpredictable. It could be good or bad, but it'll most likely be different from the vanilla crap you get at the chains. Chains are like modern FM radio. They all serve the exact same stuff, and the only way to tell them apart is by the crap they nail to the wall. All style, no substance

Not sure about that. We have a couple of TGI Fridays here. One serves your average, won't make you vomit every time you eat there but you won't necessarily love it fare. The other appears to be the same food, but drenched in sewage. Burgers come out soggy, etc. Even chain restaurants have variance in quality.