Why would a town with less than 15000 inhabitants need 3 laundromats, 3 hand carwashes and 2 mattress stores? The 4 nightshops are also shady.
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The first two are businesses that basically run themselves, you only need someone to show up if something breaks, so it's perfect for someone sitting on a commercial lot.
Mattress stores are also pretty low cost to operate once they're set up.
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Low sale numbers, so no constant restocking
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The inventory doesn't really goes bad unless something goes wrong with the storage
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You don't need many employees
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You can have late(and short) opening times, because who buys a mattress on a weekday morning or late at night?.
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You dont need a fancy showroom, just enough space to show off the different models.
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Many of them are basically just big sheds on the outskirt of town. In fact, I've often seen one of those manual carwashes in the same lot off the side off the road as a mattress store.
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And the profit margin is usually pretty high
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The laundromats and carwashes don't seem that strange. My home "city" of not even half a million people has 20 laundromats I could find on Google Maps and more carwashes than would seem reasonable. I don't know what's a reasonable number of furniture and mattress stores because one big place sucks up most of that business, but even with that, we've got at least a dozen different places to get mattresses.
Sweet shop right next to my old college. Never once saw anyone go in, it was never open, yet always fully stocked.
If its never opened wouldnt they not sell anything and therefor always be stocked?
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Kansas City…a city full of fantastic BBQ.
There’s the one place with trash BBQ and no customers. I always wondered…
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That one
In eastern europe it’s like every second shop so you get quickly used to it
There is a rug store here that has been "going out of business" for decades. Since before they moved to their current location in a massive new building.
The auction centre every time they sell art (or whatever some of that stuff is supposed to be).
Candy stores in Copenhagen that never seem to have customers, but are weirdly still around.
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There’s a video rental shop in Houston. Don’t understand how they’ve stayed in business for so long.
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Used to live in a street with 7 barber shops, in a town known for drugs smuggling. It was safe to walk there at night though surpisingly.