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Post by msdemos on Apr 13, 2020 19:14:20 GMT
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Apr 13, 2020 20:56:07 GMT
I am worried for my area! My little downtown neighborhood area is strictly independent businesses. There aren't any Starbucks or national chain restaurants. I don't think we even have local chains. Off the top of my head, below is what is in my town. Of which, I have no idea what will re-open and what will go under. I really hope all of the stores don't turn into junk businesses. This doesn't include the surrounding strip malls with pizza chains and mobile phone stores and tobacco shops.
20 nicer restaurant/bars (bars or regular dining out restaurants with menus and beer, wine and liquor) 25 smaller restaurants (sandwich or pizza shops, bakeries or Thai, Chinese, Indian restaurants, with no waiters or alcohol type places) 2 coffee houses 3 health food supplies 2 barber shops 15 boutiques (mostly women's stuff, bag and boots and that) 4 specialty beer or wine stores
3 vintage clothes stores 2 pet supplies and dog bakeries 3 tattoo and piercing places 2 bike and skate shops
1 guitar shop 1 vinyl record shop
1 large local artist market 1 full grocery market
Then there are a handful of cheapo nail salons and wig shops, which fill in the smaller store fronts
I'm really hoping the area doesn't become a ghost town. 30 years ago it was run-down and blue collar, then it became a hipster neighborhood. I haven't even got mail in about a week now!
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Post by politicidal on Apr 13, 2020 22:47:05 GMT
Lots of restaurants.
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Post by enigma72 on Apr 16, 2020 18:57:12 GMT
Restaurants
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 16, 2020 19:34:01 GMT
I'm a movie junkie, and go to the theater two to four times a month. My local theater is an AMC, and I'm a Stubs member (in fact, I re-upped for another year a couple months ago). Now that AMC is having financial troubles, I'm worried my theater might not reopen. There are no other theaters nearby.
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Post by Firefly on Apr 16, 2020 19:53:52 GMT
I'd worry about the local mom & pop places, whether they are pharmacies or restaurants. They're generally not the ones who have the backing to make it through these types of horrific events, even a fraction of them.
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Post by Xcalatë on Apr 16, 2020 19:59:16 GMT
Small independent Movie Theaters
Record Stores
Book Stores
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Post by enigma72 on Apr 16, 2020 20:07:20 GMT
Small independent Movie Theaters Record Stores Book Stores We don't have record stores any longer X and no book stores in my area. You are lucky!! I also am afraid of losing bakeries |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 20:23:30 GMT
I see that restaurants and bars will have a tough time even after this craziness ends and they are allowed to open up. I doubt people are going to just flood back in right away. People will still be scared.
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Post by Xcalatë on Apr 16, 2020 20:48:12 GMT
Small independent Movie Theaters Record Stores Book Stores We don't have record stores any longer X and no book stores in my area. You are lucky!! I also am afraid of losing bakeries Yeah there's an old school record store near me that's one of the last real record stores in the country but I doubt it will survive the lock-down because it has a very small group of loyal fans and I don't think the owners make that much out of it. As for small movie theaters there's a local independent one that shows mostly classic and even has a drive-in in the summer but I heard it was close to bankrupt after only a month of closure.
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Post by enigma72 on Apr 16, 2020 22:38:24 GMT
I see that restaurants and bars will have a tough time even after this craziness ends and they are allowed to open up. I doubt people are going to just flood back in right away. People will still be scared. I am not returning unless we get a vaccine or a cure My daughter could not survive. Wish it weren't so dangerous |
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Post by Firefly on Apr 17, 2020 1:03:34 GMT
I wonder how the health care establishments are going to recover.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Apr 17, 2020 4:24:24 GMT
I'm a movie junkie, and go to the theater two to four times a month. My local theater is an AMC, and I'm a Stubs member (in fact, I re-upped for another year a couple months ago). Now that AMC is having financial troubles, I'm worried my theater might not reopen. There are no other theaters nearby.
Just maybe AMC is not the business you want to support anyway.
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Apr 18, 2020 7:46:58 GMT
The whole retail trading sector in the inner cities could break away, and with the retail sector go the restaurants and the cultural centres and ... and ... and The rest of the whole inner city could be the sad rest of a former shopping mall with only some franchises left, no individualism any more. And some very conservatives might even applaud to that bc it might have come so anyways, and with Corona just faster - and with this argument they will say "No" to backing these sectors. And then ... I'll stop  |
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Post by kls on Apr 18, 2020 7:52:59 GMT
I think they closed over a month ago. Disney World right around the same time as well.
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