cybercat wrote:
> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Gloria P wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the first Krispy Kreme (doughnut) shops opened a few miles away
>>> from our house about two years ago. Imagine my surprise to see, driving
>>> by about a year later that it was boarded over and had a "For sale or
>>> lease" sign on the building. And I never even got the chance to sample
>>> their wares! When it opened the lines of cars for the drive-up went
>>> around the block and the parking lot was jammed for a while.
>>>
>>> Evidently the mystique didn't last long or it was the wrong
>>> location/demographic (in an area with loads of apartments and condos.)
>>>
>>> Walmarts and Targets are still springing up all around, often just two or
>>> three miles from an existing store which closes when the new one opens,
>>> leaving an empty storefront. Ugh.
>>>
>>> gloria p
>> Most people didn't understand the "real" Krispy Kreme mystique. The donuts
>> are , IMO, only good when they are hot off the conveyor belt. Once they
>> cool off and are shelved, they are just another donut, and nothing to
>> write home about.
>>
>> If you have never had a hot, glazed Krispy Kreme, you haven't participated
>> in the mystique.
>>
>
> This is true. Do the new stores have the conveor belt thing you can watch
> through the window?
>
>
If they don't then the donuts aren't made in the shop. They usually have
a little neon sign that says "hot" that they light up in the window when
they are making donuts.

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Janet Wilder
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