Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Not Fooling Anybody: Home
Link Found on Metafilter, but before than on Boing Boing.
This site ridicules people who buy out abandoned chain store buildings and repurpose them for their own businesses (like in one memorable Onion sidebar photo captioned, "You can tell area bank used to be a Pizza Hut"), but I think these guys are admirable. You can probably save a fortune on construction costs by letting the big chain with bottomless pockets construct the building, and when you buy it from them when they fail the remaining portions of their brain identity will forever serve as a reminder of their failure.
I'm of the opinion that anything that helps out small businesses in this country is beyond wonderful. If it comes at the expense of the big boys, it's even better.
Link Found on Metafilter, but before than on Boing Boing.
This site ridicules people who buy out abandoned chain store buildings and repurpose them for their own businesses (like in one memorable Onion sidebar photo captioned, "You can tell area bank used to be a Pizza Hut"), but I think these guys are admirable. You can probably save a fortune on construction costs by letting the big chain with bottomless pockets construct the building, and when you buy it from them when they fail the remaining portions of their brain identity will forever serve as a reminder of their failure.
I'm of the opinion that anything that helps out small businesses in this country is beyond wonderful. If it comes at the expense of the big boys, it's even better.
