"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> On 7/21/2017 10:43 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>>
>> Also discovered that there is a closer Papa Murphy's to me in Mill Creek.
>> Most of the reviews are horrible. They hire people to stand by the street
>> and try to attract us with signs and arrows. Since I am driving, I never
>> paid attention to what those signs said. I knew it was a take and bake
>> pizza but didn't know anything else. Guess it was that. One review said
>> there was a 2 hour wait for the pizza. No thanks.
>
> When a business has to resort to signs like that I avoid it. Tacky
> advertising usually means tacky merchandise/food.

Only once did I follow such a sign. Kept seeing signs for a party store that
was closing. There had been a Party City and a Payless shoes in that parking
lot that were both long gone. I was curious. A friend sleuthed around on the
Internet, apparently better than I did and found the place. Sure enough it
was in the old Party City store.

Angela and I drove out there only to be severely disappointed.

The store had started out as a Dollar Store. About 2 miles from us. We liked
the store. Then they expanded and branched out. But were marketing it as a
Party Store. Most of the things were still a dollar but they had some things
that were perhaps as high as $20. And I learned to be leery of the food they
sold. My mom had been wanting a small can of hominy. For some reason, you
can buy large cans but at least at that point in time, no small ones. They
had some. But they had put an old timey price sticker right over the
expiration date. The can that I bought was quite outdated.

Then for some reason, they moved further into Bothell. Name of the store was
now "Deals" and underneath it said that it was a party store. I needed
birthday paper plates so decided to stop in. But I did a double take before
I went in. They had some racks of crap outside. The crap looked familiar and
so did the woman marking the stuff down. I didn't really figure it out
though until I stepped inside. Was the remains of the same old merchandise
that they couldn't sell before. Much of it was stuff like plastic cake
toppers and plates and napkins bearing the logo of sports teams from other
areas or movies/TV shows/singers/bands that were from long past. I wound up
buying nothing and got plates at the Albertsons next door.

Then some months passed. Not sure what they did in the meantime but they
opened shop for a few days in the new location, selling what they had left
for very cheap prices but it was still all crap that nobody wanted. It was
like the store that wouldn't die. I don't know why they didn't just offer up
lots on Ebay or something.