tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post1502279427863413335..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: *Everyday ChatterJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-44385305577675174092007-11-22T12:29:00.000-05:002007-11-22T12:29:00.000-05:00The management rats are jumping from the ship as h...The management rats are jumping from the ship as hundreds of Cold Stone locations are now collapsing around the US. Why? Because the "concept" of mixing stuff into ice cream has always been a fad, and the fad is now over. The product isn't that good, is grossly overpriced, and consumers are flocking back to properly formulated ice cream from other chains like Baskin Robbins and Ben & Jerry's.<BR/><BR/>The Cold Stones have been largely sold to Yuppies with too much equity in their homes, who jumped into the stores to be "business owners". But since the labor costs are double the competition, and stores are too big and too expensive to run, the number of unprofitable stores is skyrocketing with the results we have here. Sad for the owners who have likely lost a couple hundred thousand dollars EACH.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-31458318003127299892007-11-21T12:32:00.000-05:002007-11-21T12:32:00.000-05:00Without driving past this intersection again, I re...Without driving past this intersection again, I recall that the sign for the existing Chase bank at 14th and Fifth is on TOP of a sign for another bank (Commerce?). So that should make three banks for that intersection.<BR/><BR/>In the heyday of the horseless carriage, the meeting of Terrill Road and Front Street in my neck of central New Jersey boasted four gas stations; the abundance of banks tells us something equally profound, and disturbing, about the age we live in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-68439761593443708402007-11-21T09:08:00.000-05:002007-11-21T09:08:00.000-05:00can anyone actually name an important artist who c...can anyone actually name an important artist who comes from williamsburg, even before it was gentrified? hasn't the place always been home for purposefully shabby wannabes who learned how to be creative for 30k per year at bard, sara lawrence, and pratt?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com