>r*ddit store with full inventory and zero customers in a dead mall that goes out of business in a year
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>r*ddit store with full inventory and zero customers in a dead mall that goes out of business in a year
Why the frick would you name a store Heroin Pop?
>Why the frick would you name a store Heroin Pop?
Money laundering and grant fraud.
Berlin pop? Doesn't surprise me with the way things are now. Back in my day a pop was a Bang's Root Beer.
Last time I went to the mall I saw at least 5 of these meme stores. How could one mall support five of them?
Theyre there to launder money, like most niche stores that don’t get business
it's definitely a money laundering scam. all the product they don't ever sell get's transferred to the next store so the only cost is setting up another fake 'business' and renting another store. prices are all set at something ridiculous so noone actually buys anything but they can put it all through as fake purchases to make it seem legit.
we have a similar thing in britbong, 5-10+ 'american candy stores' all on the same street. prices are all something like £10 for a single chocolate bar, never any customers, don't like filming, ran by middle easterns etc. they always disappear after a month to move onto the next fake business.
>'american candy stores'
Man one opened here recently, smack in the middle of the busiest shopping part, and they charge, I shit you not, 18 bucks for a bag of candy.
If I open a british candy store here in America, can I charge 20 bucks for a bag of british candy?
probably, britaboos love that shit.
the full explanation is:
>set up a normal looking business with a storefront, product, staff etc.
>sign on your client with a load of illicit cash they need to make seem legitimately earnt
>put your client's 'dirty' money (cash usually) through the business's registers by 'buying' product with it
>now that you have 'earnt' that money, you can go put it in the bank
>split it with your client who now has made legitimate earnings from his big pile of illegal cash
>shut down the business before you need to pay any taxes
I am not saying this to be horrible
american candy is not good, no-one is ever in these shops you can get much better at the store
its why the whole thing is a scam
Its over priced also, you can get organic peanut butter in the supermarket for 99p, they want to charge you £7 for jif
you can get m&ms and shit like snickers at a normal store, in these shops its like £6 for a bag of m&ms
yet they are everywhere and stay open despite a clear lack of customers
>anon doesn’t understand how duty or tariffs work
>fancies himself an economic mastermind
You can buy Jif in a supermarket for £2.
So, how do they make money?
By taking money from other people, keeping a percentage of it and running it thru the business’ books to make it legal
Money laundering.
But laundering money from where? Drugs?
see this post:
Yeah
drugs
trafficking
bootlegging
they are not real sweets either they fake them because people are not familiar with the brands , one store got raided and not only was it £8 for "lucky charms" it was a fake box
big one at the moment is bringing thirdies into the UK, they will literally give you 5 years worth of their salary to come to the UK and get a council house and benefits. All the trafficker has to do is find a way for them to get into the country, and then they can claim asylum.
Sorted, free home with free food and free child benefits, £5000 for the trafficker and the best part is the government can't even deport them because of the European Court.
Businesses can get no-repayment loans sometimes. If you had a business during the pandemic, you could apply for a 50k non-repayment loan. Billions of dollars went to shysters who did this. Even if you do take out business loans that you do have to repay, many times you can just tell the creditors your business is failing and pay them nothing. Your credit goes down but you've taken out hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of loans you're not paying back. You can do this as many times as your credit allows, then repair your credit and do it again.
It's what Trump did, so it's the American dream.
There's definitely some truth to this, we've had a few of those open up and be closed down. There's one that I pass when I go to the kinoplex and one day all of the shutters were down and a small sign up. I wandered over to read it and it said it'd been closed down because of something to do with taxes. Sketchy.
Wouldn’t it be a tragedy if these vibrant cultural features were removed from western nations?
They use the American candy thing so they can pretend the prices are because of tariffs, which lets them move more money per sale in a less suspicious way.
Why do they close? Wouldn't it be more efficient to work out of one location?
It's hard for IRS/HM Treasury to do tax audits, claw back small business grants, or put a lien to take unpaid taxes if you close and dissolve your business (which was owned by multiple paper companies that you control, but you do the same to those paper companies then set up new companies to make it extremely difficult for tax authorities to pin you down as the main financial beneficiary of all the scam companies).
Who the frick still goes to the mall?
Chads like me.
some people still go to the movies
people who go outside.
my city has yugioh tourneys in a store similar to OP and it's one of the very few places i frequent for a tiny dose of social interaction and a reminder to take a shower
Mall food is GOAT.
for the price they charge it had better be.
I just eat free samples
>grow up in Philly burbs
>assume every mall has a mom and pop place to get cheesesteaks
>move to the south
>malls just have overpriced versions of regular fast food chains
it's not the same everywhere
the fricks a cheese steak
Hi chang
a steak-cut cheese you dumfrick
a keto thing, you wouldn't understand
It’s a slab of cheese they grill and then refrigerate
Fricking yuros
its usually for keto diets its jsut a big slab of cheese they fry and they cool off that you can put toppings like chives on top after they usually come in half pound or pound cheese steaks and you can get different flavors like cheddar, romano, pepper jack, colby, gouda, smoked gouda, etc. theyred delicious and an pennsylvania delicacy
>theyred delicious and an pennsylvania delicacy
hi Chang
Me sometimes, though I mostly just head straight to the kinoplex and immediately go home after.
chads like me cruising for hot teenage girls that want to ride my wiener
>mom that fat sweaty guy keeps looking at me and licking his lips
>fat loser projects his insecurities onto chads
classic coping mechanism
Black person gangs swarming and robbing
I don't like buying clothes online
teenagers to get away from their parents
My local outdoor store is connected to it.
boomers do their mall walk
don't knock the mall walk young whippersnapper i fought in the war
screw you, you killed innocent farmers
Gee thanks, you old frick. You made the israelites richer and sold our best assets overseas. I hope the sheboon nurse you get at the retirement home punches you in a fit of rage.
After all, there's only one race the human race :^)
people who need a place with AC to escape the summer heat while outside
i thoroughly enjoy hitting on teenage girls at the mall but its not easy when they tend to run in packs. they do be flattered a 40 year old man still wants to obviously stuff them though.
absolutely, positively the highest degree of based
It’s a money laundering scheme
Random Spirit Halloween stores
My and my friends use to.
Now most of the good stores are closed and the mall is full of Mexicans and Muslims.
>Take my nephew to the mall for Build-A-Bear around Christmas
>6 or 7 generic toy shops all around the mall
>>All products are cheap knockoffs brought in bulk from Alieexpress
>Transrobots and Pikamon and Spider-hero tyope stuff
>No one entering, despite the mall being fairly busy
>All owned by vaguely middle eastern people
Has to be some sort of deal where they bought the empty stores to make the mall look more full.
5? The malls around me have one each unless you’re counting like hot topic as one. I don’t believe you, post the malls website so we can see the store directory.
Spencer's for nerd goyim
Not even those half empty shelfs are convincing. Everyone knows they remove stuff to make it look like people have brought shit
t. NEET
Fcuk you mother fricker. Me and my friend own a place like this. Its people like you who are responsible that we go out of business and struggle with debt
FRICK YOU b***h
BAD bastard bloody b***h!
location^3
Good morning sir.
Reminds me of the bubble tea craze some years ago. They were literally everywhere, with long queues in the first 1-2 weeks, they next to empty and then they closed as fast as they opened. Oversaturation kills fads extra fast.
That's called a bubble.
>Chang mad about bubble tea
Lmao
>Chang mad
Who do you think ran those shop?
>who do you think ran those shop
they know it's going to happen and plan around exploiting the trend while it lasts then shutting up.
All those bubble tea stores are still open where I live.
There’s so many bubble tea shops here in San Diego and I never really see any of them close except for the truly awful ones.
Bubble tea is still hot right now. We had a wave of boutique candy stores and cupcake stores and frozen yogurt stores that came and went. At one point there were like 12 frozen yogurt stores in an area of 4 blocks. Now there's only 1 kek.
>Bubble tea is still hot now
Maybe in your flyover bumfrick nowhere
I want the ponyta plush
A store opened near me that only sells "collectibles" and I see the fat nerd owner in there every day, not selling a goddamn thing.
It takes true resolve to not launch a brick through their frickin windows, followed up by a river of gasoline and a lit match, myself having already sent the fire department to a fake call across the city so that everything burns before anyone has a chance to cut the locks on the chains that I've barricaded all possible entrances and exits with.
you seem to be projecting
Cinemaphile folx don't understand the purpose of having a storefront for a collectables store.
YOUR STOREFRONT ALWAYS, ***ALWAYS*** LOSES MONEY EXCEPT FOR MAYBE BLACK FRIDAY THRU CHRISTMAS. You make money by buying up collectable assets from people whose parents/grandparents died, and from people who are on drugs and need quick money. Then you resell those items at a 100x markup.
I was a clerk at a sports collectables store and the store lost like $2k per month from existing after paying rent and paying employees (after including profit from meager in-store sales) but made like $6k per month from scamming people selling stuff to us for cheap.
Why would a store exist that only generates about $50k in profit for the owner? Because many of the flipped sales are done at conventions or on any number of swap meet sites. Most of the sales are not reported as income. The store never turns a profit and pays limited taxes. There's also the gambling aspect where you hope some sucker will come in with rare 1/1s or oldgay cards that are worth tens of thousands that you can buy for hundreds.
What an awful font
>local "nerd" store start as as small mall kiosk seeling graphic tees
>kiosks multiplying like breeding rabbits, every mall has one
>full-sized stores start appearing, still inside malls
>then stores outside shopping centers
>one of them is just one block alway from home
>out of nowhere, lamen restaurants under the same brand
This is not organic, I refuse to believe they can grow that fast when our economy is tanking
It could just be that the brand is owned by some smooth-talking con man, and he goes around "franchise expo"-type deals to trick immigrants into pouring life savings into opening shitty stores that make no money (but the conman made money from franchise fee and all the heavily marked up branded fixtures you have to buy from him to open that store).
Malls, banks and investors are desperate for a modern toy store or teen store that appeals to 15-30 crowd, or thereabout. That's how these stores get financing, at least at a high level because Target and Walmart are slowly reducing toy inventories every year and will eventually eliminate all videogames besides Nintendo. There's a lot of sales to be had towards people who don't know how to buy things online ie old people or people who don't realize videogames sell merch online now. Or people who don't have credit cards. That's the target demographic.
i had a salesman call my phone repair shop and try to slimeball his way into selling me fidget spinners roughly 3 months after the fad ended
too many morons who can't say 'no' running things lately, so fads are extended artificially out of desperation
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Shut the frick up homosexual
now post the Cinemaphile store
I've seen stores like this pop up in malls a lot over the past year. These and stores with "comics" in the name that only sell funko pops. It feels bad man.
I thought the reddit store was Hot Topic?
Frankly I'm surprised that my mall still even exists, let alone the fact that the 2 abandoned anchor stores were actually bought and used as local discount stores. Usually nobody buys those because they are so big
I find it sad people spend their money on bullshit like what I see in ops picture.
Only black people go to malls anymore. They should have opened a kfc instead.
Yo, where's that so I can buy that PAW Patrol car. That's like really rare now.
What I can gather from this picture is that absolutely no one likes Minnie Mouse.