Our county seat has one major industry, the state prison. When they ran a campaign to come up with a new slogan for the town, I submitted "WELCOME TO DEER LODGE; IT'S NOT JUST FOR CONVICTS ANYMORE". I didn't win. 😥
2:10 better question, how could you NOT find a Starbucks? I'm pretty sure they opened one up in my kitchen, despite the fact that I never go to Starbucks.
I've always refused to go to Starbucks because they refuse to serve me a small coffee or a medium coffee insisting I use their pretentious, silly descriptors. There were three Starbucks in my town. The employees unionized. Starbucks closed and left town.
Its mainly because I haven't seen a single mcdonald's have a mobile order taker outside in the line if it gets packed ythat how the line moves faster they are already have your oder either being made or qued-up by the time you get to the actual order mic.
As a former Angelino, we had all sorts of names for In And Out, many of them not recitable on a wholesome site like RU-vid. Also, the original Trader Joes only has about six parking spots.
The TJ on Boylston Street near Mass Avenue in Boston may be the apotheosis of Trader Joe's accessibility issues. When visiting there, I have never noticed anything remotely resembling on-site parking. There's curbside parking (good luck finding a space!), with about one car length available directly in front of the store. Maybe the locals know which indoor parking facility in the area to use, or maybe everybody who shops there just walks as I did. And that brings us to the next issue. Even if you DO know which parking structure to stow your car in while you shop, getting there may mean having to constantly yield to the perpetual flow of pedestrians in crosswalks. At corners where there are no walk/don't-walk lights, peds have right of way in the crosswalks, any time, willy nilly. Just when one group is finishing crossing one way in front of you, another group is stepping off the curb coming from other direction ... and now here comes another one from that other direction, and two more right behind, and then another group from the first direction again; and when you finally squeak over that crosswalk into the intersection, you have the same thing going on in the crosswalk on the other side. And on and on and on. Finally, the store is actually in the basement, down a flight of stairs from the sidewalk. At least that's how it's been every time I've been there -- I admit I haven't been back in much too long.
Ross is TJ Maxx and Marshalls, but the employees simply don't care anymore to keep the store neat, but there are security guards at the entrance...figure that one out.
At least they have security guards, my work (like corporate says we can't stop them) will let people walk out with more money worth of merchandise than I make in my 2 week paycheck. "Sorry, we can't afford to give you a raise." I wonder why. 😕
Kinder's BBQ has good burgers in the SF Bay Area. No drive-thru so I have to feel like parking, but they're far better than the other chain places. I haven't yet tried Five Guys because the only one here has no drive-thru and I didn't feel like parking.
Those receipts came in handy during the pandemic's toilet paper shortage! (I got a lot of laughs with that line when I bought 48 cans of cat food at PetSmart.)
I feel like the Southwest Airlines joke was a bit too niche. While Spirit's problems have infiltrated the zeitgeist, I don't know that SW Airlines's 'hunting permit' seating is that well known. I found it extremely funny, but at one point they were the only airline doing direct flights between where I was and an airport near my parents' place so I've experienced it.
I remember a news story in the last few months about how they're changing from open seating to assigned seating. The only time I was on a flight with open seating, back in the 80s, the plane was almost empty so it wasn't a big deal. I can imagine it being a mad house when the plane is full.
No, it's the UPS Store that needs to change it's name to Amazon Returns! 😅 That's the only reason I go, and I've been in there with a line and the people in front of me are all also doing Amazon returns.
I know nothing about LA but $200,000 homes for $2,000,000 sounds like the Real Estate market in a nutshell. I just hope we do not have to bail out the private equity companies that have sucked up all the land when the bubble does pop.
So our former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl was in fact an Amazon return that somehow ended up in German politics .... I always suspected it to be it someway like that. It explains quite a bit 😂 For instance the blackout he brazenly claimed to have had concerning a briefcase full of money ... greetings from Germany
Home Despot. (But I love that I can use a scan gun at the self-check there instead of that stupid flatbed scanner. I try to have my zebras (barcodes) lined up on the cart for rapid checkout, wherever I go.)
@@Paladin1873 I like the way you think, Paladin. I was recently asked my pronouns and answered it/it/its. The querier was terrible upset. "You can't be an it!" I had thought it was my choice.
