Regional Talk > Chicago > Naperville Show-me's is out of business

reply to Goober

Re: Naperville Show-me's is out of business

Really??? That's just inane.

reply to Goober
Walgreen's has a top secret (really 0 it is) formula for measuring street traffic and other factors to decide where to locate stores. It is considered the most effective process for store locations there is. Other stores go where Walgreen's builds based on the fact that Walgreen's decides it's a good spot for them. They almost never close a store because the location turned out to be bad.

That said, what works for them might not for other businesses. Still, it's interesting that they've worked out some algorithm that others haven't figured out.
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Well, it's a bunch of crap, particularly as it applies to this particular location. The only reason the land was sold to my friend was that there was a commitmen to open a private Christian school on that location. When the plans for that fell through for some reason, the land was then sold to Walgreens.

The lady would never have sold the land if she'd known it was going to be sold for commercial purposes. It ticks me off that it got sold for retail crap.
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reply to jsinaiko
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reply to jsinaiko
Oh, i totally get where your coming from. Granted i escaped the bubble known as dupage and moved into the city for a while. I look back and think to myself, what are you people doing worrying about shit that doesn't affect anybody??? Isn't there bigger issues to deal with than a hooters type restaurant? (And from the sounds of the comments, you think it was some dungeon sex club or some shit! It's freaking girls in tank tops!!!)
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And I for one, among others, didn't want that in the community in which I live.

reply to djdanska
Just the usual trite NIMBY stuff. Trite and self-centered.

And most folks - at least writing here - have a good perspective on it all. They have their reasons for living where they do and understand the pros and cons and don't play a silly zero-sum game.

A few seem to live where they live out of fear of what some other place might be like. And no girls in tank tops dammit!
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And some live in communities that remind them of their hometowns and feel most comfortable there.
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reply to Goober
And based on the looks of the naperville police cars, they're going for the 1950's look.

Wouldn't know.

They're hard to miss. I see them all the time on ogden ave near naperville road doing speedtraps.

I meant in the sense that I haven't seen anything about them that made me take notice. I live about a mile south-east of the police station, so I see them fairly often. But I didn't see anything that struck me as being different.
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