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Small businesses you will miss (1 Viewer)

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Lots of small mom and pop businesses I grew up patronizing are no longer economically feasible. In many of them, the owner did it more out of a labor of love than profit motive, but now, even existence-level profit seems impossible. Most or all have been replace either online or within other megastores, but they kind of sap the the whole joy of my experience.

News Stands

Used Book Stores

Record Stores

Shoe Repair

Bike Repair

Haberdashery

Frisbee Golf Course

Miniature Golf

Feed Stores

Millinery (wife)

 
cosjobs said:
Lots of small mom and pop businesses I grew up patronizing are no longer economically feasible. In many of them, the owner did it more out of a labor of love than profit motive, but now, even existence-level profit seems impossible. Most or all have been replace either online or within other megastores, but they kind of sap the the whole joy of my experience.

News Stands

Used Book Stores

Record Stores

Shoe Repair

Bike Repair

Haberdashery

Frisbee Golf Course

Miniature Golf

Feed Stores

Millinery (wife)
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I hope Music Outlet in Enfield, CT never closes. That was the place -- an unglamorous one but important to me -- where I learned to special order and seek out records by looking at credits and thanks within the liner notes, sought out groupings by genre, and purchased trade mags before information about music was so ubiquitous and easily accessible.

 
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I can see it all now, this is gonna be just like last summer. You fell in love with that girl at the Fotomat, you bought forty dollars worth of ####in film, and you never even talked to her. You dont even own a camera.

 
In addition to book, record and comic stores....I'll add Stereo Stores.

Spent many hours in them throughout college and early adulthood. They were almost always single store mom & pop operations with a personal touch on service. Of course, there's still some out there, but they're definitely declining.

Best Buy now carrying McIntosh, Krell, and Martin Logan and it all sounds like #### cause they don't know how to set it up properly.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
Small independent drug stores with lunch counters/malt shoppes - and a great "penny" candy selection.
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Not sure how old you are but in the 80's I can recall seeing these and no one was ever working the counters. There was one however, it was a Woolworth's in a "busy" mall that had people working/sitting/eating. I may have sat at one when I was younger (early 80's) but can't recall it.

 
Mario Kart said:
Binky The Doormat said:
Small independent drug stores with lunch counters/malt shoppes - and a great "penny" candy selection.
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Not sure how old you are but in the 80's I can recall seeing these and no one was ever working the counters. There was one however, it was a Woolworth's in a "busy" mall that had people working/sitting/eating. I may have sat at one when I was younger (early 80's) but can't recall it.
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Yeah - I think the emergence of McDonalds and other fast foods were more attractive to kids and kind of killed them off. I am 57 and we had both a Muir's Drug store (small chain) and a Woolworth's within walking/bike distance that had the counter in the back - neither was very busy in the mid-late 60s/early 70s. We loved them though. Great burgers, grilled cheese, real cherry cokes/sodas with whipped cream. Cheap.

 
Book stores where the owner actually picked the inventory and could recommend something.

Cheap barber shops.

Record stores

 
Abraham said:
Book stores where the owner actually picked the inventory and could recommend something.

Cheap barber shops.

Record stores
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We have an awesome barber in my little town. He bought the old shop and is slowly fixing it up. Old guys just kind of hang around in there. He was so happy my last baby was a boy. My boys love going to the shop. He is young and plans to keep it going as long as he can.

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Butcher shops for sure, they were all over when I was growing up and they are almost all gone now.
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oddly enough, there seems to be a number of butchers trying to make a go of it in my area. I can think of a half dozen or so within 5 miles of my home.
 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
the moops said:
you guys are kidding about record stores, right?
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I spent just about every extra dime I had when I was younger at my local record store.

I don't miss them a bit.
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I did this also. Heck, back when cassettes were about 8 or nine bucks or something and CDs were still 14-15 a pop, I would buy cassettes to make up for the difference. 3-for-2 trade, really.

And so much of it was ####. Like, bad ####.

 
I think in general if you live outside of cities, lots of these places being named just can't sustain themselves. People aren't driving 50 minutes to give their business to a used book store, a shoe repair place, etc.

But if you live anywhere with a ton of people and lots of foot traffic, these types of places still thrive. I live in Boston and spent my afternoon walking from Newbury street back home to Allston, and I saw just about every type of mom-and-pop place mentioned in here outside of the truly obsolete ones.

Maybe other cities are different, and I know downtown areas are much more overrun by corporate brands, but in Boston at least most of this stuff is alive and well, if you know where to look.

 
A record store just opened up in my town. Very odd. It's a guy that lives in town and seems to always have record garage sales. I'm guessing he has enough of a following to sustain a BM store.

Hope it works for him.

I miss the old baseball card shops.

Now you need to take a mortgage if you want to buy a box of cards.

 
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