The only dollar store I frequent is Dollar Tree. Where everything is 1.25. Dollar general and Family Dollar sucks bc half their shit is 3 4 5$. A phone charger is $7 at dollar general (here in central FL I get my car detailing, snacks, candy, school supplies and kitchen stuff from Dollar Tree!
Matchbox cars always felt far cheaper and were boring. Like they'd just have a plain, cheap looking 1975 Mercedes car. We were hot wheels kids and it wasnt even close. They had cool cars. It seemed like matchbox was designed for the old Grandpa who just wanted a copy of a car he had 20 years ago
This is presented like those channels would exist as anything but what we know them as. The were basically all created by Viacom. Not direction, existence. Most screen-entertainment is fueled by a very small network of creative influence, not just because there are only so many people in a position to create conent at that scale, there are even fewer people whom investors like using. Its not that they definitely want to bias the media, but that they want to reduce their investment risk using what they know to have been successful (see: marvel and transformers, can be higher cost, but low risk, high reward) vs some indie thing that wasnt an immediate hit at Sundance. distributors have a similar consideration when deciding to show a film or not, risk empty seats to show 'art' or fill seats with dreck?
As everyone else said, they got insanely expensive. For a place that wants to promote eating healthy, they sure as fuck harm the wallet. To their credit, Subway remains to be one of the very few - if only - sandwich places that has a large menu. I love Jimmy Johns, but they have a handful, literal handful of ingredients and that's it. Subway has meatballs, chicken bacon ranch, bbq, etc and so on. and they toast their bread, which again, places like JJs doesn't.
as a long time neopets player, when Viacom sold Neopets to JumpStart, it was a relief...it was not the best ownership...Neopets is still running and I play daily...it is under better management now
Gonna be honest, in all my years, Goodwill and Michelin are the only names I've seen/known of. I've seen one Firestone building in my life, that was it. Goodyear 100% dominates.
@@companyman114 You can disagree all you like, but once an investment house takes over... all of those things happen. It has happened to every major retailer/restaurant since the 80s when investment houses became a big thing. The moment there is a decline in sales,,,, that's it... quality goes out the window, the public loses interest, and then the corner cutting. I've been watching it happen for 40 years.
Long live all the buffet restaurants except Golden Corral but that will close up shop soon due to inflation and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Used to love going to Ponderosa and OCB and also The Sweden House. The best buffet restaurants to all u can eat and pig out. RIP Old Country Buffet.
We had home town buffet I gre up eating there my grandma loved it when she came to town we would always go. Then it was my first job when I was 16 in highschool, not the best job to work at but I was there for a month or so until the job i really wanted called me and hired me which was good because a few months later they shut down for good 😅 but I do miss it I loved the food it never disappointed. Furrs Cafeteria was my favorite one out of all of them. Anybody else remember and miss Furrs Cafeteria??
I can't believe anyone goes to KFC anymore, especially in Canada. I was a die hard KFC customer. Here in Canada years ago they started cutting pieces into smaller pieces and charging almost twice the price overnight. I was so pissed that i stopped going altogether. I was with a friend one night and she wanted KFC for dinner, so we went. It was absolutely terrible, pretty much inedible we threw most away and now the price is even twice the price of the last time I was there. The Colonal would vomit if he knew what they did to his amazing chicken. So sad to see what has happened to almost every business. Everything is terrible and way over priced. I'm gunna miss you KFC.
The only thing I would push back on is that the companies in china were the ones deceiving people into spending money on trash. That’s on Wish and their white founder. They knew who their suppliers were and the quality they were working with 😂 they are the ones who deceived people
They had sonic games for saturn like sonic racing and sonic 3d blast. But they weren’t traditional sonic games but later sonic games looked more like them.
This is the first video from your channel where a company recently expanded near me. This is a good one! My sister actually got a job for Crumbl. It's pretty sweet!
I pretty much stopped buying KFC because every time I go there and I get like a bucket of chicken. It’s like I get home and the chicken taste like it’s been dipped in fish grease or cooked in fish grease , just gross. It doesn’t even have the colonel Sanders flavor to it anymore. It’s like ever since his death. It’s like whoever owns KFC has destroyed it. They ain’t even they haven’t even kept the original recipe and still continuing on with the rest of the original recipe at any cost, and you would think that these high price companies that own KFC could afford to keep the original recipe in place but it’s like they’ve declined. I don’t even eat there anymore. Hardly the only time I eat there now is like during a holiday and nothing else is open and I still have to choke it down horrible ever since Colonel Sanders died it’s just KFC has been a mess. It’s like they’ve gotten lazy and destroyed the original recipe to even making good chicken, but I do guarantee had they kept the original recipe after his passing they would still be flourishing in business …
I barely watch any of Viacom's networks or programming. I have much stronger feelings against Comcast/NBC/Universal since they have become one of the biggest cable companies/rip-off artists in the country.
*I* remember 7 Up being much bigger -- but I'm 60 years old. I loved the Geoffrey Holder commercials, because who didn't love that voice and laugh? I prefer 7 Up to Sprite; but Sprite is in all the restaurants and vending machines, and 7 Up never is. Whatever happened to Slice? And whatever happened to Sierra Mist?
Really enjoy everything you put out. You do your homework and present it as unbiased as possible. I check all the time for new content. Companies and the what,where,who and why has always been an interest to me. Great work. I hope you don’t get burned out. I’m sure there is a lot more content to explore out there. Your work helps lazy people me, enables us to just sit back and enjoy the “fruits of your labor”. Lol TY
Its so weird seeing so many companies originating from cities i grew up in. I pass by Tacos Tia almost weekly and never knew its history. I also pass by the original McDonalds almost monthly. Also the original In-N-Out daily. Its so amazing yet sad how San Bernardino has turned out
I think part of it had to do with the image of these sorts of all-you-can-eat buffets. Younger, more health conscious people stopped going to them because the image of these restaurants became tables full of morbidly obese people grunting like hogs while shoving fistfuls of carbs into their mouths. Basically, buffets got the image of being places where the Homer Simpsons of the world go to eat.
