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re: Businesses that are still open that you thought wouldn’t be in business 15 years ago

Posted on 6/25/19 at 3:56 pm to
Posted by Paul Allen
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 3:56 pm to
Get out of my thread, Martini.
Posted by Johnny Roastbeef
Somewhere in Bartow County
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:39 pm to
Sherwood Poboy next to Canes.
Posted by HoopyD
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:42 pm to
Weinerschnitzel on Highland near LSU. I mean...How??
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:45 pm to
Best Buy focused on appliances like washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, and televisions: things you don't really buy online since those are things you want to see.

GNC just seems to have found a niche market where people just go to it when they want supplements, vitamins, and so on and the people who work there tend to know their stuff.

I am amazed that Barnes and Noble is still around.

This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 5:00 pm
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
Sugarland
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:46 pm to
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All the CVS Walgreens & such. I know at least from my own medical insurance they were trying to go all mail order on drugs and I figured brick & mortar drug stores would be few and far between. It pretty much exploded after that. Even in my small town in the middle no nowhere we have drug stores everywhere.



Cold medicine and preparation H are still things people want to buy in a store.
Posted by fallguy_1978
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:46 pm to
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Sherwood Poboy next to Canes

The parking lot looks like the surface of the moon.
Posted by Grit-Eating Shin
You're an Idiot
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:52 pm to
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I'm always surprised when I drive by that location on Siegen and realize it's still open.
Lol. I had this exact thought last night when I passed it. That shithole has been open for over 20 years in a city that actually has good seafood. Can't wrap my head around it because the food there is, and has always been, complete shite.
Posted by Grit-Eating Shin
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:53 pm to
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Sherwood Poboy next to Canes.
I've been told it's a front. Would make sense.
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
Sugarland
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:53 pm to
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This is what I assume is going on with a lot of places that have an online presence. The stores are simply a distribution center masquerading as a retail outlet. Side bonus as a permanent billboard.


The markup on pornography is huge. DVDs and toys cost pennes to make. I mean how expensive is it to make a phony wiener made out of silicon, plastic, glass, metal, etc. Even toys are just basically electrical motors and since it's so easy to connect them to wifi and so on and yet people pay markups of at least over 100%. Porn is a good low volume business if you own a store.
This post was edited on 6/25/19 at 5:00 pm
Posted by eScott
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:57 pm to
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Weinerschnitzel on Highland near LSU. I mean...How??


I've been eating there since it was Der Weinerschnitzel.
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
Sugarland
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 4:58 pm to
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I assumed CVS/Walgreens survived on their retail - not their pharmacy. They're on ever corner in major cities. I have one attached to my neighborhood so I don't even have to get on a real road. I'm in there 3-4x a week, and there's always a line



Friend of mine works at CVS. First many prescriptions are often limited time. If you have an infection you are not going to wait for mail order. Second, going to the drugstore has become an ingrained habit, third the markup on prescriptions is very high, fourth PBMs, doctors, and insurance companies just have to point and click and they send your prescription to Walgreens or CVS and you make a habit of it and PBMs have deals with CVS and Walgreens that make it as profitable.
Posted by Ryan3232
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:00 pm to
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Dairy Queen
Are you high?
Posted by RougeDawg
Member since Jul 2016
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:06 pm to
Jimmy Johns. I don't get it.
Posted by facher08
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:23 pm to
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I've been eating there since it was Der Weinerschnitzel.


Do you have any colon left?
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
Sugarland
Member since Jul 2005
11177 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:25 pm to
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Weinerschnitzel on Highland near LSU. I mean...How??


I agree ate there once and then thought what's the big deal. Plus Taco Bell was just a few blocks up.
Posted by Mr Clean
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:35 pm to
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’m not giving him any money if that answers your question


He says some of the same type shite I used to say on social media before I got sober.

Posted by meansonny
ATL
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:49 pm to
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Friend of mine works at CVS. First many prescriptions are often limited time. If you have an infection you are not going to wait for mail order. Second, going to the drugstore has become an ingrained habit, third the markup on prescriptions is very high, fourth PBMs, doctors, and insurance companies just have to point and click and they send your prescription to Walgreens or CVS and you make a habit of it and PBMs have deals with CVS and Walgreens that make it as profitable


My employer drug plan is through CVS. They are killing it. Put the local Walgreens out of business (bought the client list, too).

CVS may be the only chain drug store of the future not stationed in a hospital or grocery store.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
38225 posts
Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:53 pm to
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Joe's Crab Shack.


X 10000000


And Melting Pot (although they did finally close recently) but I never understood how that place made it.

Is the TEXAS Club still open?
Posted by Grit-Eating Shin
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:59 pm to
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Is the TEXAS Club still open?
Only for concerts.

Went to one in September (alternative band), and it's still a great venue. Hadn't been since the late 90s prior to that.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 6/25/19 at 5:59 pm to
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Dairy Queen


Yea they seemed to be disappearing at one time but somehow seem to made a decent comeback
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