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IDK, I used to drive all over the Phoenix valley pre-covid in my cab and most of new business construction I would see was either a car wash or coffee shop. I w
by UncleEntity 3y ago
IDK, I used to drive all over the Phoenix valley pre-covid in my cab and most of new business construction I would see was either a car wash or coffee shop. I was messing around on google maps one day and there was something crazy like seven starbucks within reasonable walking distance of my apartment including two in the same shopping center.
I always thought the car wash construction boom had something to do with water conservation, Phoenix being in the desert, but apparently not.
- Lammy 3y agoAnecdote: I went to a Starbucks just today (in a Tesla!) that had a huge bank of superchargers outside and zero seating inside. I'm sure the beancounters love the idea of everyone using Starbucks as their 30-minute car-fueling-and-now-also-drinks stop. It solves all of the (from the corporate point of view) downsides of running an actual store with, like, chairs and shit. It practically guarantees each "seat" turns over in that amount of time since the act of showing up to use the charger implies they have somewhere else to be. Nobody's sat there for hours on their laptop. No problematic h̵o̵m̵e̵l̵e̵s̵s̵ ̵h̵o̵u̵s̵e̵l̵e̵s̵s̵ unhoused people shooting up in the restroom unless they happen to be living out of an $80000 car. Corporate wet dream lol