You ever find yourself wondering how specialty stores survive? It was strange before internet commerce and it's especially confusing now. 20 years ago a store opened up near me that specializes in house lighting, like chandeliers and light bulbs and other

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Anonymous 10/02/23 (Mon) 20:01:34 No.2151

You ever find yourself wondering how specialty stores survive? It was strange before internet commerce and it's especially confusing now. 20 years ago a store opened up near me that specializes in house lighting, like chandeliers and light bulbs and other related things. How does it make enough money to stay open? It has to pay rent and pay workers and other related expenses, yet it's still there.
What a mystery...

Anonymous 10/02/23 (Mon) 20:03:21 No.2152

Well people buy stuff from them.
A lot of stores are going out of business at least in my area "thanks" to amazon and internet commerce, which is a big fat sucks don't it.

Anonymous 10/02/23 (Mon) 20:03:31 No.2153

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I'm not exactly sure, but aren't a lot of them either family owned or sell stuff at exorbitant prices such that they don't need to be selling their whole inventory all the time?

Anonymous 10/02/23 (Mon) 20:05:42 No.2154

scale them down, repurpose them into warehouses located closer to residential areas. Stuff like that

Anonymous 10/02/23 (Mon) 20:12:34 No.2155

and as vacancies rise the value of the land will drop. So supply and demand will equal it out. The people losing money would be landlords.

Anonymous 10/03/23 (Tue) 20:18:52 No.2225

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I used to live close to a shop called "The Small Shelf Store". They sold extremely simple but absurdly highly priced shelves. I find it insane that anyone would buy one let alone it being a lucrative business. Pictured shelf is apparently worth at least 200€.

Anonymous 10/03/23 (Tue) 20:51:52 No.2226

>>2225
i got two of those from ikea except they're white and have 2 storeys and cost 20 bux

Anonymous 10/03/23 (Tue) 21:01:52 No.2227

there are multiple persian rug stores in my city and they have a LOT of floorspace

Anonymous 10/03/23 (Tue) 22:48:44 No.2230

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Anonymous 10/04/23 (Wed) 00:00:23 No.2231

The bird in helck not having an outline on their head is weird

Anonymous 10/04/23 (Wed) 16:41:15 No.2242

must be symbolism

Anonymous 10/04/23 (Wed) 16:55:53 No.2243

the bird is a figment of the protagonist's imagination, the entire show is just the protagonist's dream and they're slowly dying and comatose in the real world

Anonymous 10/04/23 (Wed) 16:58:03 No.2244

>>2243
Been there done that

Anonymous 10/04/23 (Wed) 17:38:16 No.2245

Cop out

Anonymous 10/10/23 (Tue) 00:17:51 No.2376

>>2225
I have a store like this nearby that sells lamps. Just lamps. I never ever see any customers for it but it has kept the lights on for at least a decade.

I suspect it to be in order of likelyhood:

A. - money laundering op
B. - intelligence safehouse
C. - some sort of ghost building like in those Calgary Gideon Keys stories

Anonymous 10/10/23 (Tue) 00:24:33 No.2377

>>2376
>it has kept the lights on for at least a decade
The lamps probably help with that.

Anonymous 10/10/23 (Tue) 01:06:27 No.2380

>>2377
nice

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