The New Retail Thread

GDX163 said:
Latitude 360 promotional video. "Luxury bowling" really gets me.
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"Luxury bowling" has been around for a decade or more. See Kings/Jillian's/Lucky Strike and numerous others located around the country with no Boston area location.
 
The state went back and rejected 9 of the 20 medical marijuana dispensaries they had earlier approved, explaining their reasoning as the sketchy people and accounting involved. Both of the ones in Boston plus the one in Cambridge were rejected. One remains on Beacon Street in Brookline and one each in the far reaches of Newton and Quincy.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyl...ispensaries/F5wjdfC3QgnBWq4yrvSl7J/story.html

The only T-accessible one still approved to open is just up the street from Coolidge Corner. If I was a NIMBY in Brookline I’d be worried right now, that dispensary is going to have to shoulder the bulk of the metro market until more can come online.
 
Scipio said:
The only T-accessible one still approved to open is just up the street from Coolidge Corner. If I was a NIMBY in Brookline I’d be worried right now, that dispensary is going to have to shoulder the bulk of the metro market until more can come online.
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Good for Coolidge Corner, they should see a nice uptick in business. (mmm seven subs...)

I can't help but feel like the people who think dispensaries are going to cause any sort of problems have NO IDEA how prolific pot dealers are. Everyone and their mother deals. A well to do family member in an affluent town on the north shore's neighbor does. In the city I've never had to do much more than get to know a few neighbors to find a guy within walking distance. Liquor stores likely cause more problems than a dispensary ever will.
 
BosDevelop said:
"Luxury bowling" has been around for a decade or more. See Kings/Jillian's/Lucky Strike and numerous others located around the country with no Boston area location.
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Are you saying these chains don't have Boston area outlets?!? (If so, they do have locations in Boston.)
 
Oakley said:
Are you saying these chains don't have Boston area outlets?!? (If so, they do have locations in Boston.)
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No, I was saying that in addition to those "luxury bowling" places we already have in Boston that I named, there are many others elsewhere that we don't have around here.
 
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The FroYo revolution marches on! You get FroYo! You get FroYo! You get FroYo! Everybody gets FroYo!!!!!!

(Fresh Mango just opened on Bromfield recently too)
 
datadyne007 said:
The FroYo revolution marches on! You get FroYo! You get FroYo! You get FroYo! Everybody gets FroYo!!!!!!

(Fresh Mango just opened on Bromfield recently too)
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I am convinced that the retail market research firms sell the same demographic study to multiple franchise and independent operators. Hence you get stupid clusters of the same type of retail outlets, oversaturating the market in a location. In DTC I have seen this with burritos, cupcakes, and now frozen yogurt.
 
South Station two story CVS is now open.
Hours are 7am-12am,
Sorry about the quality, took these on my phone.

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Very interesting! Thanks for the pix & notice. I will definitely go check it out soon.
 
datadyne007 said:
The FroYo revolution marches on! You get FroYo! You get FroYo! You get FroYo! Everybody gets FroYo!!!!!!

(Fresh Mango just opened on Bromfield recently too)
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That Fresh Mango has been on Bromfield for some time. Perhaps as long as 2-3 years. I rarely see people in there and wonder how they stay in business.
 
BosDevelop said:
That Fresh Mango has been on Bromfield for some time. Perhaps as long as 2-3 years. I rarely see people in there and wonder how they stay in business.
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Ah, maybe that's why they have been handing out those bright green 10% off coupons all over DTX the past few months. I had just assumed that they were celebrating a grand opening. Weird how I never noticed them despite going to Rico at least once a week. Thx for the info.
 
BosDevelop said:
That Fresh Mango has been on Bromfield for some time. Perhaps as long as 2-3 years. I rarely see people in there and wonder how they stay in business.
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I would think they make a killing on tourists.
 
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