Mediocrity isn’t confined to the internet. We’d like to draw some retail-level inspiration from your favorite odd stores, bad diners, and questionable food trucks. Tell us about your faves!
My ex-brother-in-law worked at a local vacuum repair and sales shop. They kept pretty busy and he was a reliable source of those good ol’ classic rebuilt Kirbys.
Local businesses? Hmm. Well, my closest town has a population of 2371, up from 2331 in 2020, so it’s growing! We even have our own DMV - open Wednesdays.
Maybe the oddest/most eccentric business we have makes fantasy coins - like copper coins of Gondor and Dale (legal tender at the Green Dragon), and the Valor Morghulis coins of the Faceless Men (GoT) - useful if you ever need passage to Braavos. And they sell lots of other stuff you never needed until you see it and realize you “need” it. https://www.shirepost.com/
@jouest I’ve seen tour buses parked there.
They are officially licensed by the various fantasy writers/owners/producers to make the coins, so they have some ready-made marketing. Beyond that, perhaps it’s just
@jouest@rockblossom
Yeah, it’s funny. But then again, all that shit has to be made somewhere so why not Arkansas? I’m guessing a LOT of their stuff is mail/net orders and shipped out to specialty stores hither and yon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My ex-brother-in-law worked at a local vacuum repair and sales shop. They kept pretty busy and he was a reliable source of those good ol’ classic rebuilt Kirbys.
This was way looong ago tho…
@therealjrn
mine just closed. they kept my vacuum in for repair!
@jouest
/giphy shocked!
@jouest @therealjrn
well, that SUCKS!
Local businesses? Hmm. Well, my closest town has a population of 2371, up from 2331 in 2020, so it’s growing! We even have our own DMV - open Wednesdays.
Maybe the oddest/most eccentric business we have makes fantasy coins - like copper coins of Gondor and Dale (legal tender at the Green Dragon), and the Valor Morghulis coins of the Faceless Men (GoT) - useful if you ever need passage to Braavos. And they sell lots of other stuff you never needed until you see it and realize you “need” it.
https://www.shirepost.com/
@rockblossom is this a tourist destination or something? how in the money laundering hell can this survive? (I love it.)
@jouest I’ve seen tour buses parked there.
They are officially licensed by the various fantasy writers/owners/producers to make the coins, so they have some ready-made marketing. Beyond that, perhaps it’s just
@jouest @rockblossom
Yeah, it’s funny. But then again, all that shit has to be made somewhere so why not Arkansas? I’m guessing a LOT of their stuff is mail/net orders and shipped out to specialty stores hither and yon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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