Wandering Adventure Party

@cstross @TallSimon @stevendbrewer Interesting! While I knew both Trader Joe's and Spirit Halloween were US only, I assumed their defining attributes were world-known, if only for the memes which have escaped the containment of US culture.

Trader Joe's: Smaller scaled grocery store (compared to US supermarkets), almost all white label store brands, "hipster value" fanbase. Owned by one of the Aldi's (can't remember which), actually.

Spirit Halloween: Pop-up seasonal retailer, tends to rent abandoned retail space, does the absolute minimum to make the space usable, and sells costumes and stuff for a month or so before re-abandoning it.

Oh, and K-Mart: Department store chain, mostly went out of business decades ago.

@TallSimon @stevendbrewer @cstross My contribution to the vibe: Harbor Freight Tools. I describe it as a cross between Trader Joe's and Spirit Halloween. It's got a lot of in-house tool brands and has an "upscale but value" fanaticism similar to Trader Joe's.

But the locations themselves always look like they took an old K-Mart carcass which had been sitting there for years, added dividers to make it about 1/4 the area, installed third-hand shelving, hung a HARBOR FREIGHT sign and called it a day. (I'm oddly specific here because there's a location in Reno which did literally that.)

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@kepano Slack's doing damage control: https://www.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/1njuchb/comment/newvtof/