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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There used to be one I just couldn't understand. It was one of those stores you commonly see on the road side with many products related to our local culture. They could theoretically make a ton of money selling that stuff to tourists if the store was next to a gas station or something, but it was deep inside the town in a very low traffic street, with no advertisement. Non-tourists would have a need for their products once every few years at most and it could be found on regular stores as well. There was just no way that store could be profitable.

But then they started selling rotisserie chicken and I became their regular. A couple years later they shut down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Absolutely - our local smoke shop in my towns plaza.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There's an Indian restaurant near me that has been there for years. I've never once seen more than 2 people in there and rarely any ubereats. I once went in to buy samosas and they seemed surprised. It's not a cheap neighborhood so I'm certain the place is a front more than anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Classic answer of a mattress store. We have a very busy interesting in town, and they are on all 4 corners. Prime real estate, never a car in the lot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

When I lived in Burlington Vermont, the owner of the skate shop "ridin' high" got in trouble because he was selling drugs out of the skate shop.

Classic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There's a store in my little town that sells gift bags, ballons and teddy bears. Never seen anybody in there, never seen the window display change. Keep in mind this isn't a party store. They only seem to sell those three things. Lord knows what they REALLY sell. Maybe "teddy bears" is slang for some new drug I don't know about.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Growing up, I would drive by a restaurant that was called the good view restaurant, it had a single small rectangular window at ceiling height on one side only and maybe three parking spaces that were always empty.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's a furniture store that is never open that I go by a lot which I find odd, but I don't know if it's shady. We literally do have Mafia in my city though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You just reminded me of one store near my workplace, it sells tableware and rather pretty so I asked them what's their schedule and they just said that they don't know ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ how are you even a business if you don't know when do you start and finish your work

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's really strange. Like why have a store? This place is office furniture so maybe it's just occasionally used as a showroom but I go by several times a week and have never seen it open.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There was once, but the gang and I set a trap, caught the monster, and now it's just a pawn shop.

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