Didn’t know that. Was wondering where the shopping carts went…

scummyyyyy

The mayor of Pawtucket was working to move this person to a shelter and the state will come in to clean the mess up.

Not for $340k USD they're not! I just can't, can't, can't forgive myself for not pushing harder to buy a place about 8 years ago now that was in SK on 2 acres for 199k. If I could timetravel, I swear I would just buy real estate.

No one’s buying that

Yep, got one too earlier today (edited to remove phone number)

I was gonna say I drive past it every day and it’s a camp

Gourmet House on Hope right next to Apsara. Not sure of the whole story but something about the owner or partial owner sold his piece of Apsara and opened Gourmet House.

Is the person living under there the old man from scene 24?

Don’t forget about doing the job half-assed so you can no-bid on repairs a few years later!

I noticed this a while ago too!! So insane

It really does seem like manufacturers trying to get into retail often doesn't go well.

I'm in a completely different manufacturing industry, we've dipped our toes into first-party distribution and we just cannot manage to do it profitably. It's just such a completely different skillset that our organization isn't set up for.

Similar story with Andersen windows. Manufacturing is fine as far as national brands go, but the Renewal by Andersen sales arm is totally predatory.

I really don't know about Trek's internal setup, but if it's anything like what I've seen elsewhere, there are targets set by the higher ups, with healthy incentives for the Sales Dept to him them, which leads to unsustainably aggressive behavior.

Based.

Thank you for posting this

I work in the area, that's trash/ materials from the homeless people who live directly under the bridge. They made DIY wood houses under there and have been living under there for months. No judgement, it must be a wretched existence and I wouldn't last 2 hours on a day like today if I was in their shoes. Terrible.

I agree about broken windows and litter (just litter, not policing). Before you know it, there's a patch of mattresses and a tire garden.

Very interesting. Matt is a great guy so I have no doubts he put lipstick on the situation as to not drag them publicly. Plus, he’s still selling their product lol

These mass producers get too big for their own good sometimes and very easy to forget their roots (coming from a Trek owner)

There was a green chest near the bus stop there. I drove past and saw a guy taking a shit in it

Yep for sure, the Narragansett NBX is a great local "real" bike shop.

The slightly-insider (former owner of a different shop) story I heard is that it wasn't such a friendly thing like he was already trying to sell and Trek kindly came along to help out...it was a bit more coerced.

The NBX in Gansett still sells all those brands. I seem to remember at the time the owner wanted to focus on one location - all the other NBX (now Trek) locations in RI were bought out

Update, seems to be working today. Still routing through NGrid systems though.

Don't start sharing south county and drawing attention to it! We're fighting for our lives trying to find a home down here!

There is definitely some trash from transients / unhomed people but while broken windows is a kind of shit ideology to justify gentrification, it also has some points. Once trash builds up every dude with a fucking pickup says "let me just throw my shit over here noone cares."

I always love the juxtaposition of the “keep our Rhodes clean” sign about 100 feet down the road if you’re going south.

Right! it’s not like the city sends these homeless folk trash and recycling bins to put their waste in. What would anyone else do in that circumstance?

I personally would say fuck the world and leave my shit everywhere. Am I expected to buy trash bags and bring my garbage to the landfill myself?