General Businesses Closing Near You?

[IschKabibble]

George's Music closed their doors last year after serving the Orlando music scene for 45 years. The dry cleaners that still have possession of my clothes went out of business after 50 years of service. They left a note on their door telling me to hit up their other location to pick up the clothes. That location is closed too. Is this shit getting real enough for anyone else yet?

What type of businesses are you seeing close around you?

 

[sparkuri]

Walmarts all over the Puget Sound have shut their doors, as well as several pharmacies.

 

[IschKabibble]

Walmarts all over the Puget Sound have shut their doors, as well as several pharmacies.

Walmart still running strong in Orlando. That'll be the last institution to fall around here.

 

[sparkuri]

Walmart still running strong in Orlando. That'll be the last institution to fall around here.

Around my current area too, the birthplace of WM...

 

[FINGERS]

Furniture store, department store, about 6 banks, 3 pubs a game store and 3 clothes shops. That's just off the top of my head. There are others.

Covid lock down fucked things up good.

 

[Hauler]

Lots of restaurants are boarded up. Fast food too - mostly because they can't find workers.

Plenty of commercial office buildings are vacant. Not sure that's coming back with the work from home crowd.

 

[IschKabibble]

Plenty of commercial office buildings are vacant. Not sure that's coming back with the work from home crowd.

We should start converting to housing en masse to spark the inevitable price correction. Cheap living for everyone.

 

[Hauler]

We should start converting to housing en masse to spark the inevitable price correction. Cheap living for everyone.

Brilliant.
Buy a $35 million building and convert it to Section 8.

 

[sparkuri]

We should start converting to housing en masse to spark the inevitable price correction. Cheap living for everyone.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly the plan.
Don't be surprised when each Commercial office space has Chinese on it in 10 years.

 

[IschKabibble]

Brilliant.
Buy a $35 million building and convert it to Section 8.

Not that cheap. lol

 

[Hauler]

Not that cheap. lol

Guaranteed rent, bruh.

This is the way.

 

[IschKabibble]

It's global, and it's going to keep getting worse before it starts to get better.


View: https://youtu.be/PWWIkp93RAg

 

[kvr28]

Thinking about closing ours in the next couple years, wife and I see the writing on the wall with what is coming

 

[IschKabibble]

The fun ain't over yet. This place has been around forever.

Ralph's Army Surplus in Monroeville will close after nearly 70 years

A longtime fixture along William Penn Highway in Monroeville's business district is closing its doors by the end of the year, and the owner says he will retire.

www.wtae.com

 

[IschKabibble]

 

[Thuglife13]

View: https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1890438469693919268

 

[Rambo John J]

2 of my favorite food booths that had been thriving for decades shut down and left town due to covid lockdown
That is gonna be very hard to get over

 

[Jamie999]

2 of my favorite food booths that had been thriving for decades shut down and left town due to covid lockdown
That is gonna be very hard to get over

Yeah it was brutal, half the restaurants we regularly went to closed.. But that was 2021 through 2023, haven't seen anything close 2024/2025 that I really noticed.

 

[NiteProwleR]

Yeah it was brutal, half the restaurants we regularly went to closed

 

[MountainMedic]

Food has gotten so expensive and restaurants have raised prices to cover it. Places are empty because nobody is going to spend $20 for a breakfast burrito. Unless food and transport costs come back down to pre covid pre Biden I can see more eaterys shutting down.

 

[kvr28]

Food has gotten so expensive and restaurants have raised prices to cover it. Places are empty because nobody is going to spend $20 for a breakfast burrito. Unless food and transport costs come back down to pre covid pre Biden I can see more eaterys shutting down.

Between food costs and rising labor costs it's very easy to price yourself right out of the market. Wife and I went to breakfast at a local space the other day and our bill was 50 dollars, for fucking breakfast!

Right now the restaurant business is see who is the last one standing, those will survive in some capacity. Fuck I'll just serve beer and hot dogs with my wife if I have to.