Today I was in a part of town I never have before.
I saw a store JUST for badminton.
I have a container that is specifically used to store my flour.
I’ve been in a knitting store before. Just yarn and needles and patterns. I can’t imagine how they stay in business.
There are lots of those. Many people knit.
yep, I have two in the family, it just didn’t seem like there could be enough knitter-foot-traffic to keep the place open selling $4 spools of yarn
That’s because the skeins are $40.
It’s been a long time since I’ve bought a skein of yarn, but surely one can get one for less than that.
hits Amazon
It looks like on Amazon, they start at about $4 individually. If you get a pack, it goes under $1/skein.
Those brick-and-mortar stores much have a pretty substantial markup, unless we’re talking premium yarn of some sort.
Yes, it’s not acrylic baby-melting trash. You’re comparing McDonald’s to omakase. Try visiting your local yarn store before making any more assumptions.
Looking over at the lantern moon knitting needles and the merino wool skeins nervously, as though they’ll start tattling on their costs!
haberdashers are still relatively common in the UK.
Is that… uncommon? There was one in the town I grew up in.
Actually I looked it up and it also sold thread, ribbons and stuff like that. I guess you’d call it a haberdashery. Maybe one just for wool is less common?
Haberdashery? Poppycock!
Those are fairly common in North America and in a lot of places in Europe are found everywhere. Knitting is having a resurgence with young people.
I think my favorite is Nothing Bundt Cakes that sells Bundt cakes. It’s a chain, and yes I only like it because of the pun.
A good pun will get me in the door every time.
And the delicious cakes will keep you coming back.
I have read it is ‘nothing but burned cakes’ and thought, that this quite specific and weird.
spirit halloween seems just the place for a certain one night event.
For some of us, Halloween is not a night, but a way of life.
indeed. that’s how the store stays alive 😄
An entire store full of african-american romance novels. In a VERY white area. It did not stay open long 😞
The existence of that store feels more like a statement than a business decision
What statement do you suppose they were trying to make?
https://youtu.be/ilsef7LrrYw?is=HrIRX-yHF2gJ8dxa
In all seriousness, I didn’t take the time to really think it through before, but: the store chose a narrow market and went out of business rather quickly, so it didn’t have a good business plan; but it would make an interesting statement to see that store close so fast compared to bookstores which sell romance novels with characters likely to match their clients’ race, which might reveal a sort of widespread casual racism. Or just that readers prefer characters they think they will relate to more strongly. It’s an interesting conversation point whichever way you look at it, is my point.
My town has a mushroom shop.
Bah, Morrowind has a ton of shops in mushrooms too, a lot of cities have several
In County Cork in Ireland I once saw a shop that was a “Gentleman’s hairdresser and railway bookshop.”
I’ve been in not one, but three different round the year Christmas stuff stores.
There is a chain of stores in Europe only selling Gouda cheese (Henri Willig).
In Hamburg I’ve been in a shop specialized on umbrellas.
In Rotterdam I’ve found a shop selling only socks.
There’s a bunch of oddball stores in the Pike Place Market in Seattle but the Left Hand store was the most specific place. All left hand tools and stuff. Lots of different scissors.
I visited Pike Place in 2005 with my best friend and his wife, I had a horrible head cold and could not enjoy anything about the place. Sounds like I need to get back so I can visit the Left Hand store.
there are a lot of things to smell, like its a lot sometimes. especially if you arent feeling very well. they have expanded the market. No more car traffic on the street outside it and they expanded and built up the area closer to the waterfront, because the viaduct is gone. Many of the old school stuff is still there though. Make sure to give yourself a full day to explore, its a massive and confusing place
There used to be a store in my town called “Just Socks” that sold, just socks
If there’s still one around somewhere, should open up a competitor across the street that deals only in cheap counterfeits of the brands they sell and call it Unjust Socks.
Stores that sell clothes branded with one college’s logo / name.
Saw that in Cambridge (the original one, in UK), and they had insane prices. We went to the market, and found the same shirt for a quarter of the price.
Magic stores.
San Francisco has two of them: Misdirections, a store that’s been there for decades, and Houdini’s/Vanishing Inc. in touristy Pier 39 who have a second location near Disneyland.
Also, the San Francisco Archery Shop seems very specialized in this age of big box sporting goods stores, but again they’ve been around for decades it feels like.
As a former archer there are a number of archery shops! I went to one place to buy something and found it very strange that it was just in a row of about 8 shops as part of a small housing estate’s little “high street” - alongside a takeaway, tattoo parlour, beauty salon, funeral director - the kind of thing you need a lot more of than archery shops!
It’s moved now, I assume something more normal has taken its old spot…
Childhood me loved magic stores, the best one I found was in Victoria BC
Well, that’s an incredibly disappointing store … :(
Exactly my thoughts when i checked it out.
I came across a very narrow, 5 story store in Japan, a bit off the beaten path in Akihabara, selling exclusively N scale model trains. They had a floor or two dedicated just to the models, another one for scenery, and at least one just for repair parts for your trains. It was really cool to get to see a store that was pretty clearly a passion project for the owner(s) apparently doing well, and filling quite the niche in the hobby (I imagine)
I used to live across the street from a ballbearing shop.
Must take some balls to open one of them.
