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Company getting ready to offer cookie delivery up to 3 a.m.in greater BU area
By adamg on Sat, 07/27/2013 - 9:27am
John Carroll, who when not blogging teaches at BU, alerts us that Insomnia Cookies, which says it will deliver cookies, ice cream and milk until 3 a.m., is setting up shop right next to BU.
Ed. note: Welcome to the City that Always Sleeps, guys, and have fun at that Licensing Board meeting you're no doubt trying to schedule.
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City Baked has been doing the
City Baked has been doing the same thing around Brighton for a few months now. It's pretty awesome ordering a dozen fresh baked cookies at 2 am on occasion.
Oh, Good. I won't have to
Oh, Good. I won't have to stock up on Little Dirty Debbie snatch Cakes.
City Baaaaaaaaked
See? Decriminalizing weed means job creation!
Yes...
...shortly this area will be populated by thousands of Baron Vladimir Harkonnens...I can't move without help! Bahahahahah!!!
Well, it *could* happen...
You mean..
Flying obese pedophiles with bad skin?
People are too lazy to walk
People are too lazy to walk to one of our 24 supermarkets?
Do you want to be
walking around the city, alone at, say, 3:00am?
Wonder if they deliver to the
Wonder if they deliver to the South End
Location of Doom
Nothing has stayed in the space for long. It's normally vacant with a new tentant moving in every so often, only to close shop in less then a year. The last retailer was an imitation jewelry store, or something along those lines. I don't know anyone who went in.
The space below it used to be a good deli, then was vacant, then was a Nud Pub (Thai). A few years ago Nud Pub relocated to the old travel agency next to the coffee shop a few blocks up the street and their old space has remained vacant ever since.
I have to figure the problem is that it isn't a good retail space and BU is likely a bad landlord. (The steep stairs don't help either.) Good luck to the cookie place -- they'll need it.
I'm not sure, though
Nud Pob and the whatever was above it (boutique, eyeglass shop, cell phone retailer) always do bad business, but the places next door seem to do fine (UGrill, Sal's, Boston City Florist, Bejing Cafe, the Dugout) as well as CVS and Radio Shack, and they are all in the same stretch and rent from BU, too.
It's an odd spot to be in- you can't compete with the BU-owned shops, because they take Fake Money (Points), but you have to be something that's campus-friendly, because students and staff are your main customers.
BU
I've been told that UGrill owns their building, one of the few hold outs. Guitar center gave up and moved elsewhere before going bankrupt. I'm surprised the Radio Shack is still around but that's mostly because I'm surprised *any* Radio Shack is still around.
As I understand it, any retailer can use BU points. That pizza place in Kenmore (long gone) advertised taking them. But the cut of the transaction BU demands is so high to make it unreasonable for any shop except for high sale, high margin places like Dominos and the connivence stores BU contracts with.
I certainly won't fault BU completely, but all the shops on that block seem to be in a state of disrepair and that's never good for business. I miss the Mediterranean place...