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Stores that are out of control
« on: October 17, 2007, 05:38:11 PM »
Why do we need so many of the same store?  How do they all make money?  Within 10 miles of me there are at least 5 Walmarts,4Tagets, 20 dunkin donuts, 4 Home Despots, and the list goes on for ever.  Not only that they are building more all the time.  I just don't get it.  Someday they will have to contract back to fewer  stores then we will be left with empty ones. I can't even imagine the money it takes to have them all open or how much they have to bring in.  Any thoughts.
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2007, 05:52:36 PM »
You must live in a pretty big city to have all those duplicate stores.

Don't they have to do some sort of economic feasibility study before putting a duplicate store in the same city?
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2007, 05:55:32 PM »
In the nearby town there are 5 and soon to be 6 pharmacies all within spitting distance of each other.   ::)
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2007, 06:24:56 PM »
Quote from: Callaway on October 17, 2007, 05:52:36 PM
You must live in a pretty big city to have all those duplicate stores.

Don't they have to do some sort of economic feasibility study before putting a duplicate store in the same city?
I live in Ct along the NYC to Boston corridor near I-95 too many people for me that's for sure.  Still I have no idea how they make enough to justify so many
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2007, 06:36:42 PM »
We have Starbucks every 50 feet out here.

In City of Orange, a couple blocks from where I live, there's 2 Del Tacos half a block from eachother. City of Orange has 2 Home Depots and Anaheim has 5.
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2007, 06:51:52 PM »
In the town where I go to school, I just found out they actually have legislation preventing the establishment of Walmart, and I think Home Depot. There is a downside though, because the town is full of pretentious assholes.
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2007, 07:24:12 PM »
Quote from: parts on October 17, 2007, 06:24:56 PM
Quote from: Callaway on October 17, 2007, 05:52:36 PM
You must live in a pretty big city to have all those duplicate stores.

Don't they have to do some sort of economic feasibility study before putting a duplicate store in the same city?
I live in Ct along the NYC to Boston corridor near I-95 too many people for me that's for sure.  Still I have no idea how they make enough to justify so many

You forgot to mention the Gambling casinos run by the "extinct" Indian tribes of Ct.  They all look curiously black! ???
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2007, 07:28:51 PM »
Quote from: ozymandias on October 17, 2007, 07:24:12 PM
Quote from: parts on October 17, 2007, 06:24:56 PM
Quote from: Callaway on October 17, 2007, 05:52:36 PM
You must live in a pretty big city to have all those duplicate stores.

Don't they have to do some sort of economic feasibility study before putting a duplicate store in the same city?
I live in Ct along the NYC to Boston corridor near I-95 too many people for me that's for sure.  Still I have no idea how they make enough to justify so many

You forgot to mention the Gambling casinos run by the "extinct" Indian tribes of Ct.  They all look curiously black! ???
There is still two more trying to get federal recognition to open more ::)
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2007, 08:41:22 PM »
Quote from: ozymandias on October 17, 2007, 05:55:32 PM
In the nearby town there are 5 and soon to be 6 pharmacies all within spitting distance of each other.   ::)

That's nothing, here in the south, there's a chain of 24 hour greasy breakfast/ burger places called Waffle House. They are usually located at the to of Interstate Highway onramps and offramps. Many times you will see two of them, one on one side of the highway overpass, and another on the other side.
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2007, 04:26:01 PM »
Quote from: ASpHole on October 17, 2007, 08:41:22 PM
Quote from: ozymandias on October 17, 2007, 05:55:32 PM
In the nearby town there are 5 and soon to be 6 pharmacies all within spitting distance of each other.   ::)

That's nothing, here in the south, there's a chain of 24 hour greasy breakfast/ burger places called Waffle House. They are usually located at the to of Interstate Highway onramps and offramps. Many times you will see two of them, one on one side of the highway overpass, and another on the other side.

Mmm... Waffle House.  I lived in a place like that, there was one Waffle House right off the highway, and then another about half a mile down the road where all the locals went to.
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2007, 08:18:43 PM »
I try to go to more local and family stores than anything else but they are disappearing >:(
When they open the new Dunkin Donuts near me I will drive by two of them to get to the local coffee shop I go to.  They make my coffee and get my red danish in the bag when they see me pull up :-[
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2007, 09:17:50 PM »
If corporations were illegal
(which they should be, for
a number of reasons), this
wouldn't happen.  :laugh:
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2007, 09:55:13 PM »
There's only one wal-mart here and it's practically out of town.
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2007, 01:16:04 AM »
There are two Wal-Marts here on 82nd AVE. Not far from where I live.
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Re: Stores that are out of control
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2007, 08:52:01 AM »
they dont build any of the superstores here because everyone in this town is a faggot hippy and wont cut the trees down
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