I know this great money laundering scheme in town. You take filthy money and they turn it into clean tamales. Abuelita has the slickest game in the county
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Wendy's. I have no idea how they are still in business. Almost similar for Arby's.
Do you mean an individual wendys or the entire franchise? I quite enjoy wendys, one of the best fast food chains in my opinion.
On the other hand, arbys is gross and is 100% a laundering scheme.
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My town has like 20+ different barbershops within a couple blocks from each other. They only do the most basic mens haircuts, rarely have any customers, cheap, and cash-only. The business usually lasts for a little over a year, and then suddenly they get some new signage... and another barbershop is reborn! All using similar stock image logos as well.
I went to one a couple years back and I had to basically buzzcut myself to be presentable again.
That might genuinely just be bad business practices though
I have a friend who is a process server, they've told me countless stories of going to serve legal papers to a business but the business name had changed and wasn't the same as on the paperwork so they couldn't serve the papers
What do you mean? It's not just a name change, it's a whole new company with seemingly new owners every time.
I've also checked how much it costs to rent there, and they would need to cut over 200 heads per month simply to cover rent. If you throw in a poverty-level salary for a single person, the heads required will triple.
Of course nothing definite, but it sure is a weird cycle.
Yeah if they were expensive it'd be one thing but cheap implies they want traffic
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There’s a video rental shop in Houston. Don’t understand how they’ve stayed in business for so long.
Poor people
There's a place ik that sells VAST pizzas - a slice of that stuff is maybe 70cm long - and they somehow sell each slice for $5. Definitely suspicious profit margins.
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I have long held the belief that all these mattress stores are all a front for something.
There's a shopping center nearby that has three of them. THREE MATTRESS STORES WITHIN THROWING DISTANCE OF EACH OTHER.
Mattresses are like a once every 10 years purchase. How the fuck is there enough foot traffic to support 3 of them mother fuckers that close together?
When I worked across the street from them I never saw any of them having big sales or anything. Nobody I knew anyone that worked at any of them. They never seemed busy. Never saw trucks bringing in stock.
It doesn't add up.
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What is the image from?
Dexter. This is a cop he works with who correctly suspects him of being a killer, but struggles to prove it.
Wow, I couldn't recognize Doakes through all that text.
One could say you were surprised to see him
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"Mutha fucka"
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There's a falafel place that closes at around 13:00 every day and doesn't seem to really care all that much if you pay or not. I can't imagine it not being a money laundering scheme.
They make great falafel though!
I knew a guy who drove a taxi for a company in New York back in the 70s and one day he got in a wreck and totaled his cab, and a very large very Italian man came and told him not to worry about it and that everything would be handled and there was no need for paperwork, and that was the end of it.
Look if the mattress store is out of business, why do I always see lights on inside after 8:30 PM?
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There used to be a burger joint in my town that had terrible burgers, but they were ridiculously cheap. No idea how they made money, but they were always Russian guys and suits there. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Sweet shop right next to my old college. Never once saw anyone go in, it was never open, yet always fully stocked.
If its never opened wouldnt they not sell anything and therefor always be stocked?
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There is a super famous, incredibly mediocre destination BBQ restaurant in Central Texas that is famous for an all-you-can-eat family-style meal. For decades, they only accepted cash. Way, way longer than made sense. Like into the 2020s I think.
Their main menu item was all-you-can eat (hard to quantify number of sales), only members of the family that ran the place were allowed to count the take and the receipts at the end of each shift, and they only took cash.
I fully believe they were either laundering money or evading taxes by under-reporting. But then they opened a few satellite branches, including one at the airport, and started having to be more careful as they expanded.
There was a place here that only took cash despite being delivery and every other place here taking cards. They've started taking cards. They didn't take cards because profit margins are low and card fees are high. I asked them because I was curious.
They might be the mafia though. It is NJ.
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Mattress Firm
you mean the 12 car washes that all sprung up at the same exact time all within 5 miles of each other?
the same ones that have practically zero cars driving through them because they opened at the height of 2020 where nobody was driving anymore?
the same ones that somehow weathered a bust market for carwashes for 3 years?
the same ones that are owned by two guys with the same last name that look suspiciously like retired mafia?
you mean those places?
nah, they're just a couple brothers that were really successful before the pandemic.
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Medallion Rug Gallery
One pizza place by my old house in the bad part of Minneapolis always had a bunch of cars in the parking lot. One day I decide to try it; I manage to find a parking spot, walk in, and the place is pretty much empty. I order a pizza, take it home, and it's one of the worst pizzas I've ever eaten. That place simply cannot be a legitimate business.
Note to self: stick to the Little Caesars, if it's the neighborhood I think you're referring to.
Had some friends who love to try out new places to eat. They pulled into a standard country pub on a roadtrip, nothing unusual about it to make it seem any different to any country Aussie pub. They ordered a standard pub lunch. The big hairy dude behind the bar grumbled at them and then went out to the kitchen. 20 minutes later they are served the worst meal of their lives and 5 minutes after that a large amount of motorcycles pulls into the parking lot.
They left soon after. The place was a biker gang front and all the locals knew to avoid it.
On a related note, there's a $2 junk shop in my town where you can sit at the bus stop out front in the morning and watch every tweaker in town walk in, spend 2 mins inside, and then walk out looking much happier, 10 seconds later, carrying nothing.
It is so obviously an over-the-counter methamphetamine dealership that the entire bus stop is known as 'Meth Corner' to everyone in town.