#shop store front

[arcadebroke]

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[omg-snakes]

Do you know if there are ways to know if a snake from a pet shop has been properly taken care of or not? Asking since i've been visiting some and i saw one with a boa that had some kind of sinking or deformity on his tail, so i'm kinda wary now.

Hello, friend! I'm sorry to tell you that there is not.

I've worked in multiple areas of the pet industry and I've met the full gamut of types of shop owners, and while I don't consider all of them wicked people, some certainly are. Even the best of them have a bottom line to consider. This means that they won't divulge where their animals are coming from so that you can look into a breeder before making a choice, and they're likely buying animals from backyard breeders or bulk importers. This also means that it's unlikely that the animals they're selling will have established health histories.

Having worked at one of if not The biggest reptile chain in Northern California, I saw some horrors that scarred me for life. Among the lesser sins that took place there:

Folks who bred reptiles but didn't have incubators set up could bring their eggs in for incubation services, the price of which was half of the clutch, and the store owner would then sell the resulting babies as "born on-site," which was technically true! But we didn't know the parentage or health potential of any of these animals. We didn't sell incubators in the store for this specific reason.

Surrenders came in regularly from owners who didn't have the time or resources to care for their pets any longer. They went on the sales floor with a price tag the second the previous owner walked out the door. No veterinary care, no health evaluation, no observation period, nothing. If they looked okay they were priced at regular retail price and we were explicitly told to never admit that they had been surrendered. 100% profit.

Any animal that was injured or sickly, no matter where it came from or how it got injured, was tagged as a "surrender" that we would claim was dropped off by a bad former owner and we'd had them cleared by a vet so that we could rehome them. This was a lie. None of them ever got veterinary care, ever.

Enclosures were cleaned regularly but were never properly sterilized between animals. We sold veterinary-grade cleaner in the store but we were not allowed to use it because it was too expensive. We used diluted Lysol!

Again, this is a large reptile chain with multiple stores and mostly positive online reviews* and I wouldn't trust them with a pet rock, let alone anything breathing.

You're much better off getting a snake from a reputable breeder, or at least someone who can answer reasonable questions about feeding, parentage, genetics, any possible health issues, etc.

*the owner actually reported negative reviews and would have employees write good ones while I was there.

[leftoverlondoner]

‘La Guadalupana Mexicana’ (2023-24) by Chicago-based artist ‘Pizza In The Rain’. On show at the Asheville Art Museum, NC.

[thecatwinking]

catwin meet-cute except its a 'ghost boys but not detectives!' AU where charles and edwin ended up inexplicably working in (read: using the materials of) a craft store to try and bring some more artistic joy to their lives-after-death (sparked by a recently met Crystal telling them they need to be more rounded and no, edwin, spending your entire afterlife in a library wont solve the problem of you being completely ignorant towards every art and creative subject there is beyond literature).

edwin and his thick knitting needles and soft, cozy balls of yarn, bundled up near the window in a scarf and a thick wollen jumper, attracts the attention of a sleepy cat king, drowsy after a day of negotiating territories with a neighbouring cat ruler. surely the pretty boy with a soft bed of yarn on his lap wouldnt object to a feline friend taking a nap with him in the calm atmosphere hes created?

[newyorkthegoldenage]

On January 18, 1943, the newspaper PM published this series of photos by Weegee of signs hanging on the doors of shops around the city. They show the effect the war was having on retail trade—relocations, the draft, stock shortages, gas rationing, help needed.

[charlesreeza]

Blues Cafe - Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

Photos by Charles Reeza, October 2023

[pickled-flowers]

Saw some of the grossest parenting today in the bus

[whosname]

[Zura] ELIZABETH-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN [/Zura]

[Id from alt. Photo of an opticians/glasses store's shopfront were an action figure of a blue Elizabeth from Gintama is seated among the glasses they're promoting. End ID]

[neechees]

There should be like an etsy-esque site but just for selling & buying Native beadwork

[nedsseveredhead]

my local card shop is shutting down and its going out with some insane drama like.

i was just there getting a booster pack whAT THE HELL HAPPENED

[arcadebroke]

[turrondeluxe]

(Theoretical situation where Mikey and the kids are in a grocery store) In your au would the kids be the types to go absolutely insane in a grocery store because they want to ride in the race car shopping carts or do they not care whatsoever..

THE PIC. CANON THAT YI ACTUALLY MODIFIES A FEW CARTS THAT END UP LIKE IT.

And to answer the question they definitely go crazy with the carts as soon as mikey stops watching them for one second, Mikey Worries every single time. A normal sight around grocery stores that the little turtle family used to frequent was Mikey chasing a single shopping cart with three little turtles happily squealing and one Moja pushing it at the speed of light (also happily yelling).

They got banned from one actually (April laughed for a long time when Mikey told her this). They actually still do go crazy with the carts sometimes even during their teenage years, Mikey just isnt as worried at that point tho!

The owners of the stores are just used to it too. The kids dont really collide with anything (except on that one time where they got banned lmao) nor anyone or break the carts in any way And in the end they put them back to their places everytime so it's fine.

[leftoverlondoner]

It seems that every American town has at least one good ghostsign. This is a contender for Bryson City, North Carolina.

[rottmnt-background-screenshots]

I didn't even realize the Stockman store is one of the places April tried to sell cookies

[retropopcult]

"Why greases must be saved. Introducing two good soldiers of the home front: the housewife who saves her waste household fats and greases, and the butcher to whom she gives this salvaged fat after she has collected at least one pound, strained it through a metal sieve and poured it into a large, wide-mouthed can. Butchers displaying the poster shown here will pay householders for the fat, and sell it to rendering plants thereby turning this valuable material into industrial channels where it will be processed into ammunition for America's fighting men." Photographed 1942 by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information,

[curioscurio]

Yooooo you worked at Michaels too?

(Ex-Framing department employee here)

YEA LETS GO EX-FRAMING DEPARTMENT they never even got around to teaching me production it was all wrapping and taking orders :/ Idk how it is at other shops but we only had 3 people working the whole frame shop. One person did ALL the frame assembly and us other two handled everything else. Was absolutely not worth $11/hr. man fuck retail. FUCK Design Hub too, if I may