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Did you know that pizza guys can also be annoying regulars? I actually stopped having pizzas delivered to my stores because 1) Pizzas have far too much sodium and 2) The pizza guys would hang around the store for 15 minutes afterward wanting to talk about video games and trading cards; video games especially. I'd be standing there starving to death with a pizza turning into ice cubes while they would go on and on about video games. This happened constantly at all three of my stores for 9 years plus. Then when they weren't working they'd come in 3 times a week which I didn't mind as much because I wasn't near death those times and they'd buy things. Lots of things. Pizza gals (which there were plenty) never did this. They just took the money and ran.

2006-2009 were three tough winters in a row for Cincinnati and that's probably why people thought it was going to keep up like that. In Columbus those were bad plus we had a rough 2013-2015. I don't know how the latter ones were in Cincy since I had moved back up to C-bus by then.

On the other hand, these forgivable loans and grants that Uncle Sam is putting out could save a lot of places. I don't have all the details yet, but Prom store can be like, "Lost all of our sales from being a prom store" and the SBA might help get them a check that fixes it. That's what I've applied for in the case of my business.

Winter clothes are often a problem for retailers since some winters are totally wussy in much of the U.S. So the apparel industry does have a lot of experience with that side of things and it's why Burlington Coat Factory exists. It's also why winter clothing looks change much more slowly than other seasons. No Fast Fashion in the winter biz. I still think about how every Kroger was dedicating 800 square feet per store to vats of $1 5-packs of Silly Bandz around 2013 which was a full year after the 4-month fad was over. But the prom store in every mall, you know the one that is open all day every day, despite doing 90% of their business in a 6-week period? Those could be toast. So the place sits there with 0 dollar day after 0 dollar day for months (with a few $500-$1000) days here and there then BOOM $250,000 in six weeks from April 10-May 25. That $250K isn't coming this year.

I was just at the supermarket. It looks like they overordered bottled water since it was piled up all over the place. By now there's fewer customers in there than there normally would be.

RE: Macy's, the most devastating thing that happened to department stores is the lack of white-collar jobs in this country brought on by computers and the internet. Most jobs now either have uniforms or it's OK to wear Wal-Mart clothes at them.

Well if you want a preview of what the economy will look like if people give all their money to the internet rather than spend in in their communities, this is it.

Where I went, SSU, is already back down to the enrollment level it was at when I was there in the late '90s/early 2000s after peaking in 2009-2010. People look at P-town and are like "No way will I find a job here unless it is at the hospital/middle school/MRDD/bar."

All in the name of Supermax security levels in the buildings.

Seems like a good place to film a Tik Tok later in the year.

I remember a buddy of mine's folks rented their half from their neighbor Maxine in the '80s.

Probably wouldn't be hard to orchestrate something again where Council saves it as Cranley publicly whines.

Penny stocks move around a lot

People don't have to leave Cincinnati because it is a major city that is very well-networked.

You all are a bunch of real Hudson Hawks!

Lots more attention in the biomed sector these days, one just as full of insane ups and downs and "innovation" (promises) as tech, but less-public facing so we don't hear about them all the time.

That's interesting that you wound up living with that many people from one smaller town, but that's the kind of stuff that can happen. Because of college I wound up with an enormous Columbiana County personal network.

Individuals and their sub-optimal situations need to realize that they just can't compete with dedicated businesspeople and and their fully-optimized situations, especially with the internet taking a huge cut for simply being the internet. What all these tech startups (while making everyone lose a ton of money in the process) do is teach big business some aspect of the trade that they were missing out on so that they can follow suit with a profitable system that's only slightly different than what they were doing before the "disruption". In this case, as noted above, it was merely showing the hotel industry that there is demand for rooms that aren't clustered next to the convention center or sitting all alone except for a BW3 on an interstate.

Maybe it's Spike Jonze's house

Great, a 100-year flood during a 100-year virus outbreak.

Our local cops keyed in on this almost immediately and stepped up speed limit enforcement.

Cars are not selling. Dealers still have lots of 2019s. Do we need more supply?

And no, for the 14th time I won't join your Nu-Metal band. I don't care how many people come to your gigs in Marion, at strip mall bars on Hilliard-Rome Road and in Newark.

^I have had an unbelievable amount of people explode on me over the years for my refusal to do things that most of society considers to be wrong.

Apparently he can using the same rule Charlie Luken did to serve two 8-year terms. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/01/15/smitherman-will-not-run-for-mayor.html