There was a cereal cafe in London called Cereal Killer which had all sorts of cereals from around the world. I went there once and found their range quite interesting. It went out of business during the pandemic but now operates as a website selling its own line of cereals.
A friend of a friend (older fellow, not sure if it matters) tried to open an ice cream and fried chicken place. Hired my dad to do the electric and some other utility work (he's an electrician by trade but is a general handyman) showed up to the meeting without any blueprints or thought out plan and basically said "don't you know how to do this?" Not without blueprints or tape on the floor, at least to give some idea on where everything would/should go. Don't think he ever opened. I hope he's doing ok regardless.
Yeah, it's not the electrician's job to decide what kind of outlets and lighting you need where. If you can't even figure that out then you have no business trying to start a business.
@Joe Mama that's what my dad and I were saying when we left. Not to mention gas/ water pipes, which my dad does have some experience in. The guy did have something for a second visit, which the only reason we entertained was more cuz of the friend vs. the fact he had the prints at all, of I'm being totally honest.
At 2:01, Taylor Swift wound up counter-suing Evermore her team discovered the amusement park was illegally using her songs. I think either they were playing her songs directly in the park or their band was performing her songs live, but in either case they didn’t have permission. I think they end up having to drop their suit as a condition of Swift’s team dropping theirs. In any case, Evermore Has since gone out of business. It was located in Utah, BTW.
A woman in my town opened a pizza place just one block away from the very established, beloved family owned pizza place (like they have been there since the 70's). Her pizza was more expensive and wasn't that good. It lasted less than a year.
I gotta say.... I find the jingle to be very infectious. I'm so glad it's allowed to play one cycle at the end of the videos. Also, I click on random 'People of Reddit' videos and only listen to the ones with this voice. I know it's mechanical, but the low register makes everything sound even funnier. There was a Boy's Summer Camp horror stories one a few years back and to hear what sounds like a real gentleman relaying the crazy things that happened kept me screaming in laughter. I listened to it several times and showed friends. This voice is very relaxing and the best one you use. Make more with it--and keep the jingle, it's perfect!
I remember an episode of Shark tank. Some weirld looking guy who looked like a horror movie villian tried to promote a priduct called "Throx" Basically, he wanted to sell socks that comes in packs of 3, so if you lose one un the wash you already have extra one. Worse part, he was dead serious about lost socks being a reall issue
@@celeste8360 It was a fad for teenage girls to wear mismatched, but color-coordinated socks, and they did sell them in 3-packs so they could have more combinations.
I have a bad business idea, it's called: Get What You Paid 4 and it's a building with 4 restaurants in it like a mall food court. The first restaurant is a very sketchy Chinese with low sanitation scores run by non Asian immigrants who don't speak English very well, being the least expensive restaurant. Then the next restaurant is a slightly better sandwhich deli run by stoned college students with a slightly higher sanitation score. The next restaurant would be a franchisee run restaurant like Sbarro's where they employees curse and insult customers. And the final restaurant has half the whole building where it's a competently run gourmet sit down restaurant with decent food, and it's the most expensive.
Woody Harrelson opened an oxygen bar in California. You would basically take oxygen like in an ambulance with the tubes up your nostrils. No surprise it's out of business.
Most of them are more like breather masks, and you can get flavored oxygen. Almost went to one. Supposed to be a neat experience and also relaxing because of the fresh air
Is it really ? Cause I went to Vegas last year and did exactly that. Got oxygen through a nose tube along with a back massage and a mineral and lotion hand rub and it was amazing. There was at least 3 oxygen bars on the strip and there are even some here in Michigan now
I know its circular reasoning, but I still think some of these people deserve to just keep coming up with lazy ideas for the rest of their lives and never actually figure it out...
If you have scheduled appointments and your bike has cargo space... For a short amount of time I serviced fire alarm systems for schools and companies. You don't need a huge load of tools and the checkups for the system are scheduled. So there are services that can be done by a handman on a bike.
Out of the Closet is actually a chain that provides free AIDS/HIV testing and healthcare resources to the LGBTQ+ community: would highly recommend stopping by - I usually find something nice.
I once had someone tell me they wanted to open a nail salon where you could order food. I told them they'd only be able to eat while getting their feet done and they said that they'd only do hands. They realised it probably wouldn't work if clients had to wait and eat either before or after getting their nails done.
I briefly worked door to door sales. One of the hires said he had a car but didn’t. He would load all his samples into an Uber and upon arrival have to unload everything into a prospective customer’s house even if they were only interested in one specific item. I heard between negotiating this with the homeowner and moving the product he’d burn half an hour of time and often just be told to go away. And when all was said and done he would have to wait on the curb for yet another Uber and repack all this stuff once more.
lol they're about to have their full course meals served to them blended, with a 4 foot straw. "Honey drink your steak and shrimp, it's getting cold!" 😂 that or have it fed to you like grapes to a Roman aristocrat. Asinine regardless
The restaurant/hair salon sounded like a bad idea... have you ever smelled the chemicals in use at a hair salon? And who wants to eat while someone is getting their hair cut nearby?
12:54 "The meaning of 'Taint.'" I walked into FourBucks one day, and there is a fellow Boomer, but a woman, wearing a Tee Shirt that reads, "If you snowflakes don't stop getting triggered, I'm going to EAT YOUR ASS." The look on her face when I told her the kids mean "Eating ass" in a NAUGHTY way, and not a MEAN one, was precious. She looked like she not only wanted to hurl, but to burn the shirt, as well. While she was still wearing it. 13:35 "Selling Monika's Dress: "Is $1500 enough to get me started?" Darling, $1500 is about enough to get the Business Licenses you'll need for this. _OR_ it can get you about 3 months of Liability Insurance. PROVIDED: You don't hire ANYONE, and are the "Sole Employee."
There was a cereal bar in fort Wayne Indiana that just had a bunch of different cereal dispensers and milk and also hotel continental breakfast type food like waffles, all self serve. And then there was a couple of leather recliners and TV's to make it feel like home but under bright fluorescent lights. It was so empty I felt bad for the lady who worked there, she wasn't the owner but it was such a pathetic attempt at a business you could tell they tried to save money but there was zero atmosphere.
9:10 Okay... no, just no. I can dig a 'toy' of the month club, but _returning_ them? You don't even return books shipped monthly, let alone perishable items like the fruit of the month, or... that.
@@Chipswitch22 TBF I think it could work. Yea, it’d still be a niche market so you wouldn’t get super rich off it. But there’s a lot of people (men, woman, and everyone else in between) that do collect sex toys like other people collect regular toys, comics/manga, ect. The biggest issue would be the subscription however, the way I’d probably go about would be kinda like a magazine subscription starting on a 3-month basis. You’d first sign up only for a 3-month subscription and every month you’d get something new, and if you liked what you got you could resign for another 3 months or you could pay some more for a 6 month, 9, or even yearly.
Realistically this probably isn't even that big of an issue, most sex toys are relatively easy to clean and if the sanitation is good they'll be basically brand-new, but they're also the kind of thing where no matter how clean it is it FEELS dirty if it's someone else's. It's like buying underwear to thrift store, you know somebody else's junk was in it no matter how many times it gets washed.
Here in Australia, there were two major grocery store companies. As corporate entities, they both had different business that were also major sources of stuff (clothes, appliances, etc) Wesfarmers owned the biggest hardware store chain in the country. Every Bunnings makes a profit and has a huge market share. Their competitors decided that they'd make their own hardware chain to rival Bunnings. However, instead of building the chains in places in need of a big hardware store chain, they'd build one VERY close to an existing Bunnings. They had a more limited range of products and usually cost more for the same item. They started out trying to target a fairly small portion of the overall hardware market (women) before then trying to branch out to trades and weekend warriors before going broke. There's still a few store facades around of the old Masters businesses.
A group of investors bought up most of the desirable Masters hardware store sites , bundled them up in a REIT (property trust) and sold them to Bunnings.
The old historic Route 66 runs through our town. Nobody local really cares, though. The area around it has long since been built up and if you don't spot the little historic signs you wouldn't even notice. One day a year there is a small, single-day festival at the public library's park, but it's mostly just an excuse for some local fare, a 5k run, and vintage auto collectors/restorers to show off their cars. Mostly just something for people on that end of town to do if they're bored. Anyway, there was this really small commercial space on a corner along the route that was a dentist office for years before he finally retired. Someone decided to buy the property and put a bunch of money into making it the world's smallest, crummiest Route 66 museum. It doesn't even have enough space for anything inside other than a big map, a scaled-down recreation of a mechanic's garage, and a kiosk-sized gift shop which I'm assuming is supposed to be the place's source of revenue. (You can see everything it has just by looking through the windows so admission is pointless.) The gift shop doesn't even have anything remarkable, and it's in a place which isn't even renown for Route 66 tourism. And if there WERE visitors, whoever took over the space also thought it was a great idea to put this pointless concrete lip on the already-tiny parking lot, such that what little parking space was available is now even less. Now there is that festival I mentioned at the public park, which one would think would be the one single day of the year this place would be guaranteed to generate revenue. Except that park is about a mile down the road where Route 66 intersects one of the busier thoroughfares of our town. This place, on the other hand, is tucked away in an area that's partially residential and doesn't attract any non-local business and is quite out of the way of all of the local markets, fairs, 5ks, etc. And that festival will already have all of the Route 66 memorabilia for sale that you could get at this tiny museum and more.
@@CallMeVanEl DSP/Darksyde Phil is an insanely infamous UA-camr and streamer from the dark corners who also lies about a lot of stuff he needs money for. He's actually incredibly addicted to a cheap match WWE mobile game and is instead spending most of his money on that
2:02 The Taylor Swift lawsuit might not be the worst thing Evermore has done. They also fired all their actors around the end of 2020 and tried to turn it into a restaurant or something equally mundane. Apparently they're a theme park again so I guess they just went "looooool sorry guys! Want your jobs back?"
There was an artisan ice cream sandwich shop in a mall directly across from the Dairy Queen. The idea was sound, the owner was friendly, and the ice cream and cookies tasted great, however the only advertising was inside the mall itself and in some cases there wasn't anyone manning the front counter so customers wouldn't get served even if they were interested. The place shut down after awhile.
In the early days of the internet before MySpace and Facebook my wife invested a small (thank God!) amount of money in something similar except it was a pyramid scheme. You bought your own page on this website, then sold pages to other people and got a cut of those sales, and so on down the line. You know how pyramids work. She sold zero pages.
12:58 1999 May have been before Google but it was NOT before search engines, the internet and oh, what was that old book called… You know the one on every school student’s book list? I remember! A freakin’ DICTIONARY! We did have access to information before computers. You know that right? Ffs. 🙄
12:39 How did she miss this…? In the same vein, aren’t there like ‘quality checkers’ like in food service but for other things? There has to be somebody sensible there to say ‘this is a bad idea’ or it doesn’t go forward. So how does this stuff keep happening? I saw an example of needing this sort of person at the grocery store the other day. For whatever reason they had this little rack of T-Shirts that had an image on them that was *supposed* to look like a hand reaching out to pet a dog. But the art style made the dog look like…well *not a dog.* 😬
In my teens, a nearby pizza place promised 30 minute delivery and got a small fleet of special delivery cars-- purple gremlins with a custom paint job promoting their restaurant. Then they hired teenage drivers and-- so the gossip went-- got the bare minimum insurance. Initially the strange but distinctive delivery vehicles & policy gave them great promotional value, but predictably, the cars were all crashed in less than 2 years, they lost a lot of money, and closed in about 4 years total.
Calendar store: I mean, they do have those calendar kiosks every year from about Thanksgiving until mid January. Or they used to, I haven't been to a mall around the holidays in years so maybe they don't anymore but I used to see them every year.
Where I am calendars are usually sold in like paper shops (I think that's the right word), alongside pens, pencils, erasers, specialised types of paper (I study architecture so I usually go there) and a bunch of other stuff, "calendar industry" isn't that big
Several years ago in the 2000s, there was a jewelry store inside a major mall within my city. It did fairly well, but shutdown very soon after that well-known incident in Iraq and Syria. What was the store's name? ISIS... ...yeah.
Honestly, a prohibition-themed bar in a shady basement or something is a really cool idea, but you'd need a hell of a marketing campaign to keep it in business. From what I've seen, a lot of times there more like a themed room attached to a more obvious bar.
12:51-12:59- Or, you know, looked in a dictionary? Slang dictionaries have been a thing for decades (For instance, I got one back in 1995), and many dictionaries also include popular slang meanings of words.
@@EP1CxEMAN08 I mean, you wouldn't lose... automatically. But once you lower your prices down to $1... I mean, that's even lower than the 'worst' property on the board, Mediterranean Avenue at $2. You would have to be _insane._ ... which I guess he was, so it all works out?
Deleting your old video about this post before reposting and acting like it's new again doesn't delete the videos other channels made reading these exact same stories over a year ago.
Evermore just finally bit it a month or two ago. Apparently they had been fending off the reaper by just not paying people any debts back, and they finally did it to someone you absolutely should never do that to: their landlord. That guy took them for what little they had left. Apparently, he's going to try and do something with the park, hopefully that will be more successful and have a way less problematic management style, since the dude sounds like an actual businessman.
The couple who opened a luxurious hotel in my small hometown. This is a typical factory town but not many of them or anything to brag about. There are mostly privately owned shops, small grocery stores and a bowling alley. The hotel does surprisingly work during summertime with all the tourists passing by. You rarely see anyone use their luxurious suites. Recently they tried selling the place at a ridiculous amount. Nobody is willing nor stupid enough to invest in such a train wreck.
When I saw this video, my first thought was the Amazon Store (or was it Ebay Store) in the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin. It's been a few years, so I may be a little off, but the idea of the store is you bring them your items, they put it in Amazon, they ship it, and then you get your cut. If you go in, you can't buy anything directly from them. Catherine Keener (the love interest of Steve Carell's character) ran the shop. I get it's a comedy, but it still makes me think of terrible business ideas
Yeah, it was "Sell your stuff on Ebay" or something like that. It's like, why pay someone to sell your stuff for you when you can just do it yourself and save the money?
Electric cars when there is already a failing electric grid is really a business venture that will fail. It is like pushing a business venture building boats in a land locked lake, in the middle of a desert.
This guy who was trying to steal an ex-gf while I was with her (she found him very boring so that was never going to happen) had a brilliant idea to start his own custom design T-Shirt company and sell said shirts on Facebook. This guy was so sure his business would do well, that he took a large loan from a bank and even bought a house with some of it. Me an my gf at the time had a laugh on how bad the shirts were designed; they would never sell as he clearly had no sense in design and clearly didn't get humor. The front and back of the shirts even had different themes with "jokes" (jokes as dry as the Sahara) that had nothing to do with each other. In the end, he never made a sale. Surprisingly, it wasn't because of the bad design of the shirts but because he set the store page to private and invite only. He reasoned that he didn't want bad actors so it was invite only. …He also wasn't doing anything to advertise his store, only giving out one invite to me ex-gf in order to show off the store (she wasn't impressed). He just assumed people would love his designs and his shirts would sell like hotcakes. As expected of an ITTech alumni.
If your parents keep falling for pyramid schemes. They likely are actually going deeper and deeper into debt. So really drugging them and putting g them in their car and telling them it's the Daytona 500 and they gotta get to the mall in 30 seconds. Get them arrested and in jail foe years. And you work to save up money until able to move out
Honestly, that's probably not that bad. Change the ratios of spices, and pumpkin spice becomes a borderline tex-mex or Asian spice mix. Edit: this is assuming you're interpreting pumpkin spice to mean "the spices that would go into a pumpkin pie" and not "pumpkin with spices in it" which is apparently something that needs to be clarified.
I would totally buy a shirt that says 'taint' on it. That'd be hilarious. She should've waited 20 years to launch her clothesline and it'd make a killing.
I knew this kid in my neighborhood who started a "lemonade stand", what a loser he was! I told him "You're 9 years old kid, start acting like it, it's March for goodness sake!" Ok, it was me, I'm the 9 year old. I'm sorry.🥺
Yeah, I was with them up until then. There's a reason people love digital cameras over the old analog film, and that reason is being able to take hundreds of pictures and instantly view them, save them, or print them. I remember back in the 80's when I got my first camera (Kodak 110 Instamatic) and having to mail in the film and waiting to get your pictures back. Instant digital pictures works so much better.
Yeah, I perfectly agree with that replier. There’s definitely a ton of people who would get a huge nostalgic kick out of the look, but when you’re updating something like that, you keep the parts people love, not the limitations!
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There was a cereal cafe in London called Cereal Killer which had all sorts of cereals from around the world. I went there once and found their range quite interesting. It went out of business during the pandemic but now operates as a website selling its own line of cereals.
A friend of a friend (older fellow, not sure if it matters) tried to open an ice cream and fried chicken place. Hired my dad to do the electric and some other utility work (he's an electrician by trade but is a general handyman) showed up to the meeting without any blueprints or thought out plan and basically said "don't you know how to do this?" Not without blueprints or tape on the floor, at least to give some idea on where everything would/should go. Don't think he ever opened. I hope he's doing ok regardless.
Yeah, it's not the electrician's job to decide what kind of outlets and lighting you need where. If you can't even figure that out then you have no business trying to start a business.
@Joe Mama that's what my dad and I were saying when we left. Not to mention gas/ water pipes, which my dad does have some experience in. The guy did have something for a second visit, which the only reason we entertained was more cuz of the friend vs. the fact he had the prints at all, of I'm being totally honest.
At 2:01, Taylor Swift wound up counter-suing Evermore her team discovered the amusement park was illegally using her songs. I think either they were playing her songs directly in the park or their band was performing her songs live, but in either case they didn’t have permission. I think they end up having to drop their suit as a condition of Swift’s team dropping theirs. In any case, Evermore Has since gone out of business. It was located in Utah, BTW.
A woman in my town opened a pizza place just one block away from the very established, beloved family owned pizza place (like they have been there since the 70's). Her pizza was more expensive and wasn't that good. It lasted less than a year.
I'm a library bookstore volunteer. We had a special sale that the leader of the group REFUSED to promote.
And she wondered why people didn't show up.
Dang, this is why marketing is one of the very important parts of business. Hope she learned her lesson.
I gotta say.... I find the jingle to be very infectious. I'm so glad it's allowed to play one cycle at the end of the videos. Also, I click on random 'People of Reddit' videos and only listen to the ones with this voice. I know it's mechanical, but the low register makes everything sound even funnier. There was a Boy's Summer Camp horror stories one a few years back and to hear what sounds like a real gentleman relaying the crazy things that happened kept me screaming in laughter. I listened to it several times and showed friends. This voice is very relaxing and the best one you use. Make more with it--and keep the jingle, it's perfect!
I remember an episode of Shark tank. Some weirld looking guy who looked like a horror movie villian tried to promote a priduct called "Throx"
Basically, he wanted to sell socks that comes in packs of 3, so if you lose one un the wash you already have extra one. Worse part, he was dead serious about lost socks being a reall issue
The funny part about that. People actually complain about the sharks for not doing that deal.😂😂
They do get lost, its almost magical how can they suddenly dissapear and never appear again...
I'm in! How much and where do I sign?
There was a place online for awhile that sold three socks. Don't know if they are still around but it has been done.
@@celeste8360 It was a fad for teenage girls to wear mismatched, but color-coordinated socks, and they did sell them in 3-packs so they could have more combinations.
I have a bad business idea, it's called: Get What You Paid 4 and it's a building with 4 restaurants in it like a mall food court. The first restaurant is a very sketchy Chinese with low sanitation scores run by non Asian immigrants who don't speak English very well, being the least expensive restaurant. Then the next restaurant is a slightly better sandwhich deli run by stoned college students with a slightly higher sanitation score. The next restaurant would be a franchisee run restaurant like Sbarro's where they employees curse and insult customers. And the final restaurant has half the whole building where it's a competently run gourmet sit down restaurant with decent food, and it's the most expensive.
I feel like this would work better as an experiment than am actual restaurant but the idea is very funny to me
Woody Harrelson opened an oxygen bar in California. You would basically take oxygen like in an ambulance with the tubes up your nostrils. No surprise it's out of business.
Most of them are more like breather masks, and you can get flavored oxygen. Almost went to one. Supposed to be a neat experience and also relaxing because of the fresh air
And let me guess... you paid anywhere from $50-$500 for the privilege...
Is it really ? Cause I went to Vegas last year and did exactly that. Got oxygen through a nose tube along with a back massage and a mineral and lotion hand rub and it was amazing. There was at least 3 oxygen bars on the strip and there are even some here in Michigan now
To be fair, I think a good number of these people (including Woody) were high when they came up with their ideas.
With the way things are going, that may be a viable business in a few years time...
Handy man on the bike got me laughing my ass off lmaooo
I know its circular reasoning, but I still think some of these people deserve to just keep coming up with lazy ideas for the rest of their lives and never actually figure it out...
@@avamasquerade And they probably will.
We have a guy who does car detailing via bike. You park your car in front of your house. He bikes out and cleans it.
If you have scheduled appointments and your bike has cargo space... For a short amount of time I serviced fire alarm systems for schools and companies. You don't need a huge load of tools and the checkups for the system are scheduled. So there are services that can be done by a handman on a bike.
I live near Wilton Manors. There's Doggy Style, a pet clothing shop, Thai Me Up, and a thrift store called Out of the Closet.
LMAO! Those names are awesome, but i suspect innuendo, lol.
Someone needs to open a bar called The Man Hole.
Out of the Closet is actually a chain that provides free AIDS/HIV testing and healthcare resources to the LGBTQ+ community: would highly recommend stopping by - I usually find something nice.
The free hugs from underage girls thing... That can't possibly go wrong right? I'm dying at the stupid.
I once had someone tell me they wanted to open a nail salon where you could order food. I told them they'd only be able to eat while getting their feet done and they said that they'd only do hands. They realised it probably wouldn't work if clients had to wait and eat either before or after getting their nails done.
I briefly worked door to door sales. One of the hires said he had a car but didn’t. He would load all his samples into an Uber and upon arrival have to unload everything into a prospective customer’s house even if they were only interested in one specific item. I heard between negotiating this with the homeowner and moving the product he’d burn half an hour of time and often just be told to go away. And when all was said and done he would have to wait on the curb for yet another Uber and repack all this stuff once more.
lol they're about to have their full course meals served to them blended, with a 4 foot straw. "Honey drink your steak and shrimp, it's getting cold!" 😂 that or have it fed to you like grapes to a Roman aristocrat. Asinine regardless
The restaurant/hair salon sounded like a bad idea... have you ever smelled the chemicals in use at a hair salon? And who wants to eat while someone is getting their hair cut nearby?
12:54 "The meaning of 'Taint.'"
I walked into FourBucks one day, and there is a fellow Boomer, but a woman, wearing a Tee Shirt that reads, "If you snowflakes don't stop getting triggered, I'm going to EAT YOUR ASS."
The look on her face when I told her the kids mean "Eating ass" in a NAUGHTY way, and not a MEAN one, was precious.
She looked like she not only wanted to hurl, but to burn the shirt, as well.
While she was still wearing it.
13:35 "Selling Monika's Dress:
"Is $1500 enough to get me started?"
Darling, $1500 is about enough to get the Business Licenses you'll need for this.
_OR_ it can get you about 3 months of Liability Insurance. PROVIDED: You don't hire ANYONE, and are the "Sole Employee."
Okay the elephant in a display case is actually pretty funny. I could see a therapist using that couple’s counseling session.
I'm taking this. Thank you!
Smoothie bike also sounds pretty cool. Some people at my former university did it and it was pretty popular.
There was a cereal bar in fort Wayne Indiana that just had a bunch of different cereal dispensers and milk and also hotel continental breakfast type food like waffles, all self serve. And then there was a couple of leather recliners and TV's to make it feel like home but under bright fluorescent lights. It was so empty I felt bad for the lady who worked there, she wasn't the owner but it was such a pathetic attempt at a business you could tell they tried to save money but there was zero atmosphere.
9:10 Okay... no, just no. I can dig a 'toy' of the month club, but _returning_ them? You don't even return books shipped monthly, let alone perishable items like the fruit of the month, or... that.
There is a very, very niche market for used sex toys. VERY niche.
At some point you are using a toy used by 12 different dudes before....
@@Chipswitch22
TBF I think it could work. Yea, it’d still be a niche market so you wouldn’t get super rich off it. But there’s a lot of people (men, woman, and everyone else in between) that do collect sex toys like other people collect regular toys, comics/manga, ect. The biggest issue would be the subscription however, the way I’d probably go about would be kinda like a magazine subscription starting on a 3-month basis. You’d first sign up only for a 3-month subscription and every month you’d get something new, and if you liked what you got you could resign for another 3 months or you could pay some more for a 6 month, 9, or even yearly.
Realistically this probably isn't even that big of an issue, most sex toys are relatively easy to clean and if the sanitation is good they'll be basically brand-new, but they're also the kind of thing where no matter how clean it is it FEELS dirty if it's someone else's. It's like buying underwear to thrift store, you know somebody else's junk was in it no matter how many times it gets washed.
The cycle powered smoothie store sounds like it could work to me, to be honest. At least as long as it's an optional gimmick to draw attention.
"Cycle bars" are already a thing, can easily find videos of that here on youtube.
if they put it in a fancy gym, it could work
Here in Australia, there were two major grocery store companies. As corporate entities, they both had different business that were also major sources of stuff (clothes, appliances, etc) Wesfarmers owned the biggest hardware store chain in the country. Every Bunnings makes a profit and has a huge market share.
Their competitors decided that they'd make their own hardware chain to rival Bunnings. However, instead of building the chains in places in need of a big hardware store chain, they'd build one VERY close to an existing Bunnings. They had a more limited range of products and usually cost more for the same item. They started out trying to target a fairly small portion of the overall hardware market (women) before then trying to branch out to trades and weekend warriors before going broke. There's still a few store facades around of the old Masters businesses.
A group of investors bought up most of the desirable Masters hardware store sites , bundled them up in a REIT (property trust) and sold them to Bunnings.
Wizards of the coast and hasbro trying to steal from their customers
The old historic Route 66 runs through our town. Nobody local really cares, though. The area around it has long since been built up and if you don't spot the little historic signs you wouldn't even notice. One day a year there is a small, single-day festival at the public library's park, but it's mostly just an excuse for some local fare, a 5k run, and vintage auto collectors/restorers to show off their cars. Mostly just something for people on that end of town to do if they're bored.
Anyway, there was this really small commercial space on a corner along the route that was a dentist office for years before he finally retired. Someone decided to buy the property and put a bunch of money into making it the world's smallest, crummiest Route 66 museum. It doesn't even have enough space for anything inside other than a big map, a scaled-down recreation of a mechanic's garage, and a kiosk-sized gift shop which I'm assuming is supposed to be the place's source of revenue. (You can see everything it has just by looking through the windows so admission is pointless.) The gift shop doesn't even have anything remarkable, and it's in a place which isn't even renown for Route 66 tourism. And if there WERE visitors, whoever took over the space also thought it was a great idea to put this pointless concrete lip on the already-tiny parking lot, such that what little parking space was available is now even less.
Now there is that festival I mentioned at the public park, which one would think would be the one single day of the year this place would be guaranteed to generate revenue. Except that park is about a mile down the road where Route 66 intersects one of the busier thoroughfares of our town. This place, on the other hand, is tucked away in an area that's partially residential and doesn't attract any non-local business and is quite out of the way of all of the local markets, fairs, 5ks, etc. And that festival will already have all of the Route 66 memorabilia for sale that you could get at this tiny museum and more.
Buying Twitter.
Twitter has only made a profit twice and apart from that its made only losses.
You just don't understand Elon Musk's genius
He sas something he didnt like. And buy it to make it better as he wanted.
This is not about profit, is about someone doing it whatever he wants.
Pretty sure the dude didn't buy it to make a proffit. He bought it because he liked it.
Bezos has a super yacht, that doesn't make a proffit either
21:10 burn the whole town down
DSP charging people $20 to change colored lights in his house.
Make that ANYTHING DSP does nowadays.
I'm sorry ... What?
@@CallMeVanEl DSP/Darksyde Phil is an insanely infamous UA-camr and streamer from the dark corners who also lies about a lot of stuff he needs money for. He's actually incredibly addicted to a cheap match WWE mobile game and is instead spending most of his money on that
@@Sanodi21 oh ik who DSP is... But he's charging people to come to his house to change lights???
That's not the worst thing people can spend money on.
1:50 I wouldn't want to be a masseuse during burrito night.
Blockbuster: Increasing their price, and re-renting a movie back out to someone the minute it was late. RIP.
2:02 The Taylor Swift lawsuit might not be the worst thing Evermore has done. They also fired all their actors around the end of 2020 and tried to turn it into a restaurant or something equally mundane.
Apparently they're a theme park again so I guess they just went "looooool sorry guys! Want your jobs back?"
Is that the same one Jenny Nicholson made a video about? I haven’t watched the video because it’s 3 hours long
There was an artisan ice cream sandwich shop in a mall directly across from the Dairy Queen. The idea was sound, the owner was friendly, and the ice cream and cookies tasted great, however the only advertising was inside the mall itself and in some cases there wasn't anyone manning the front counter so customers wouldn't get served even if they were interested. The place shut down after awhile.
The only business I know of where this concept is very successful is no-man convenience store in South Korea.
I remember those commercials for Quibbi. Quibi? Kwibi? And I have absolutely no idea what that product was.
22:32 "potato drinks". .. Oh - You mean Vodka?
13:40 - Boob therapy?!?! And insurance covers it? "Honey, you know that $5,000 annual deductible our insurance has? I just reached it with one claim."
Once, my bussiness idea was to grow a money tree.
I was 4.
A money tree grows avocados. So profitable the cartels now run most of the avocado trade
Were you playing Sims?
@@arianebolt1575
I was born in 1990.
And dragonfruits are essentially money griowng on trees in 'Sims 4'.
In the early days of the internet before MySpace and Facebook my wife invested a small (thank God!) amount of money in something similar except it was a pyramid scheme. You bought your own page on this website, then sold pages to other people and got a cut of those sales, and so on down the line. You know how pyramids work. She sold zero pages.
Elon Musk putting a limit to the amount of Tweets you can see. It is beyond understanding why he thought it was a good idea.
There was a big calendar store at my local mall. I just assumed it was a placeholder store until something permanent went in.
12:58 1999 May have been before Google but it was NOT before search engines, the internet and oh, what was that old book called… You know the one on every school student’s book list? I remember! A freakin’ DICTIONARY! We did have access to information before computers. You know that right? Ffs. 🙄
12:39 How did she miss this…? In the same vein, aren’t there like ‘quality checkers’ like in food service but for other things? There has to be somebody sensible there to say ‘this is a bad idea’ or it doesn’t go forward. So how does this stuff keep happening? I saw an example of needing this sort of person at the grocery store the other day. For whatever reason they had this little rack of T-Shirts that had an image on them that was *supposed* to look like a hand reaching out to pet a dog. But the art style made the dog look like…well *not a dog.* 😬
In my teens, a nearby pizza place promised 30 minute delivery and got a small fleet of special delivery cars-- purple gremlins with a custom paint job promoting their restaurant. Then they hired teenage drivers and-- so the gossip went-- got the bare minimum insurance. Initially the strange but distinctive delivery vehicles & policy gave them great promotional value, but predictably, the cars were all crashed in less than 2 years, they lost a lot of money, and closed in about 4 years total.
Calendar store: I mean, they do have those calendar kiosks every year from about Thanksgiving until mid January. Or they used to, I haven't been to a mall around the holidays in years so maybe they don't anymore but I used to see them every year.
Nope, mine still does.
Where I am calendars are usually sold in like paper shops (I think that's the right word), alongside pens, pencils, erasers, specialised types of paper (I study architecture so I usually go there) and a bunch of other stuff, "calendar industry" isn't that big
Several years ago in the 2000s, there was a jewelry store inside a major mall within my city. It did fairly well, but shutdown very soon after that well-known incident in Iraq and Syria. What was the store's name? ISIS...
...yeah.
3:16 Someone needs to tell them that prohibition ended 90 years ago.
That bar went out of business because nobody knew the password.
Honestly, a prohibition-themed bar in a shady basement or something is a really cool idea, but you'd need a hell of a marketing campaign to keep it in business. From what I've seen, a lot of times there more like a themed room attached to a more obvious bar.
"You'd need a hell of a marketing campaign to keep it in business."
Ironic.
17:48 and
Bicycle powered smoothies were both out of the box but difficult on feasibility
WotC changing the OGL. They are literally just waiting for everything to die down so they can do it again. They technically can't even legally do it
a tanning salon in Thailand? I been to thailand 4 times and got a tan by day 2 every trip 😅
That cereal restaurant one makes me laugh, ROFL
Jones BBQ and foot massage 🎶
12:51-12:59- Or, you know, looked in a dictionary? Slang dictionaries have been a thing for decades (For instance, I got one back in 1995), and many dictionaries also include popular slang meanings of words.
3:16 This one really hurts... does he not know what 'monopoly' means?
It could work... if you're playing the board game.
@@EP1CxEMAN08 I mean, you wouldn't lose... automatically. But once you lower your prices down to $1... I mean, that's even lower than the 'worst' property on the board, Mediterranean Avenue at $2. You would have to be _insane._
... which I guess he was, so it all works out?
Ugh... the reused sex toy subscription service sounded pretty disgusting. Can you even totally sanitize rubber sex toys?
2:58 Micheal's Cereal Shack.
Deleting your old video about this post before reposting and acting like it's new again doesn't delete the videos other channels made reading these exact same stories over a year ago.
Something that happened recently but check the drama on Hasbro/ Wizards of the Coast trying to change the terms of the Open Gaming License.
Evermore just finally bit it a month or two ago. Apparently they had been fending off the reaper by just not paying people any debts back, and they finally did it to someone you absolutely should never do that to: their landlord. That guy took them for what little they had left. Apparently, he's going to try and do something with the park, hopefully that will be more successful and have a way less problematic management style, since the dude sounds like an actual businessman.
"potato drinks"
so vodka
The couple who opened a luxurious hotel in my small hometown. This is a typical factory town but not many of them or anything to brag about. There are mostly privately owned shops, small grocery stores and a bowling alley. The hotel does surprisingly work during summertime with all the tourists passing by. You rarely see anyone use their luxurious suites. Recently they tried selling the place at a ridiculous amount. Nobody is willing nor stupid enough to invest in such a train wreck.
Piped soup sounds kino
5:48 Business aged like its products.
I started a puppetry UA-cam channel.
That sanitary pad thing is already invented. It's called a wound VAC LOL
The best was when Walmart tried to open stores in Germany and didn't check German laws before creating policy 🤣
German don't like door greeters. And we don't like fake smiles.
Gordon Ramsay wrote a review of the all-potato restaurant, called "Spuddy Hell."
Even as a potato enthusiast, I have to say I'd be hard pressed to consider an all potato meal.
@@peteranon8455 I wouldn't. That's basically just how I ate as a kid lol.
15:40 SOUP PIPES
When I saw this video, my first thought was the Amazon Store (or was it Ebay Store) in the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin. It's been a few years, so I may be a little off, but the idea of the store is you bring them your items, they put it in Amazon, they ship it, and then you get your cut. If you go in, you can't buy anything directly from them. Catherine Keener (the love interest of Steve Carell's character) ran the shop. I get it's a comedy, but it still makes me think of terrible business ideas
Yeah, it was "Sell your stuff on Ebay" or something like that. It's like, why pay someone to sell your stuff for you when you can just do it yourself and save the money?
Wilton Manors sounds like my kinda place 😂
"artisanal hot dogs" is an oxymoron lmao
Seahorse farm😂😂
8:39 This wouldn't be a guy in Louisiana, would it?
Thank you so very much for your video 😊.
Electric cars when there is already a failing electric grid is really a business venture that will fail. It is like pushing a business venture building boats in a land locked lake, in the middle of a desert.
Some of these weren’t bad ideas, just badly executed.
Pink sauce on shelves
This guy who was trying to steal an ex-gf while I was with her (she found him very boring so that was never going to happen) had a brilliant idea to start his own custom design T-Shirt company and sell said shirts on Facebook. This guy was so sure his business would do well, that he took a large loan from a bank and even bought a house with some of it. Me an my gf at the time had a laugh on how bad the shirts were designed; they would never sell as he clearly had no sense in design and clearly didn't get humor. The front and back of the shirts even had different themes with "jokes" (jokes as dry as the Sahara) that had nothing to do with each other.
In the end, he never made a sale. Surprisingly, it wasn't because of the bad design of the shirts but because he set the store page to private and invite only. He reasoned that he didn't want bad actors so it was invite only. …He also wasn't doing anything to advertise his store, only giving out one invite to me ex-gf in order to show off the store (she wasn't impressed). He just assumed people would love his designs and his shirts would sell like hotcakes.
As expected of an ITTech alumni.
Having a business page which is private sounds as bad as the bar which wouldn't tell anyone where it is.
20:21 ha, speedrum
If your parents keep falling for pyramid schemes. They likely are actually going deeper and deeper into debt. So really drugging them and putting g them in their car and telling them it's the Daytona 500 and they gotta get to the mall in 30 seconds. Get them arrested and in jail foe years. And you work to save up money until able to move out
Stealing with extra steps?
Pumpkin spice flavored ham
Wait, what's wrong with this one? It may not be a "universal need" but if you shipped the ham everywhere, it could be a great novelty product.
@@dantheman9919 Pumpkin spice-ception!
Honestly, that's probably not that bad. Change the ratios of spices, and pumpkin spice becomes a borderline tex-mex or Asian spice mix.
Edit: this is assuming you're interpreting pumpkin spice to mean "the spices that would go into a pumpkin pie" and not "pumpkin with spices in it" which is apparently something that needs to be clarified.
Crystal Pepsi
Reminds me of Bob Pogo's restaurant
Google was around in 99. 🙄
There is a clothing brand called Taint founded in 2023.
I would totally buy a shirt that says 'taint' on it. That'd be hilarious. She should've waited 20 years to launch her clothesline and it'd make a killing.
OGL 1.1
Pumpkin Spice Tamales
The gay one was hularious
The japanese concept is called Nomihoudai or 飲み放題 or all you can drink.Shit ain't no joke tho.
Its still being tested but elons neuro link. I will never put technology in my head.
A Jump to Conclusions Mat
I knew this kid in my neighborhood who started a "lemonade stand", what a loser he was! I told him "You're 9 years old kid, start acting like it, it's March for goodness sake!" Ok, it was me, I'm the 9 year old. I'm sorry.🥺
Did the police shut it down?
@@Gamemaster-64 Lol. I'll never tell😁
Isn’t a “potato drink” called vodka?
Wotc and it trying to change the OGL
My cousins tried to open a pizza shop w/ no restaurant experience. Compared to these stories though... 😂
WOTC
Hey can you help my friend?
He creates similar content of reddit stories and thread but his reach is dead
The waffle House has found a new host
The Waffle House Has Found Its New host
The Waffle House has found it’s new hoste
Ok but I love the idea of a digital camera that looks like the old 35mm point and shoot ... just not the memory card idea
Yeah, I was with them up until then. There's a reason people love digital cameras over the old analog film, and that reason is being able to take hundreds of pictures and instantly view them, save them, or print them. I remember back in the 80's when I got my first camera (Kodak 110 Instamatic) and having to mail in the film and waiting to get your pictures back. Instant digital pictures works so much better.
Yeah, I perfectly agree with that replier. There’s definitely a ton of people who would get a huge nostalgic kick out of the look, but when you’re updating something like that, you keep the parts people love, not the limitations!
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