There are big time restaurant with famous chefs and stores with fancy shit people want already that go out of business on the regular.

Then there’s this hand made soap store that blows bubbles out of a machine down the block from me. And there are the dozens of crappy “lol I went to NYC!” stores all over midtown that somehow manage to stay in business.

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of living in or visiting Manhattan - there are like whole city blocks of these SHIT stores. Literally they just sell shit. Like, taxi candles and porcelain Statue of Liberties. You can buy like 40 t-shirts for $8 there (if you’re willing to get a rash every time you put one on). I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else in there. They have sodas from like 1976 (TAB for the win!) and I mean seriously - they’ve got to be selling drugs there or something.

Sprinkled amongst them are these bogus discount electronics stores that prop up latptops in the window with shockingly low price tags. Tom Hanks describes these stores better than I ever could in an old SNL bit I’ve included below.