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Retail Theme Parks

EddMarkStarr

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Remember Willy's Chocolate Experience in Glasgow?

Across the United States there are "Retail Theme Parks" that fully realize the dream of a visit to the Wonka Chocolate Factory.

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EddieWorld and Buc-ee's are just two players in a retail landscape that would challenge Walt Disney when it comes to immersive experiences.

But nothing quite compares to Memphis Pyramid Bass Pro Shops.


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Sporting goods are just the beginning, there's an in-house Big Cypress Lodge hotel, restaurants, multiple aquariums, multiple waterfalls, a cave, a bowling alley, and a cypress swamp with live alligators.

Themed retail environments are a far cry from the shopping malls of my youth, and the Memphis Pyramid isn't the largest. The granddaddy of Bass Pro Shops is in Springfield, Missouri.


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I have been to Eddie World - damn expensive ice cream cone that tasted like the store brand ice cream from the discount market.
 
My idea of hell!
I get that the idea is to keep the shoppers all under one roof for as long as possible.
I want to go to the one shop I need to go to and then leave as fast as possible.
I regularly go to my 'local' out-of-town retail park but only ever go in one store and then leave
 
EddMarkStarr said:
But nothing quite compares to Memphis Pyramid Bass Pro Shops.


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Sporting goods are just the beginning, there's an in-house Big Cypress Lodge hotel, restaurants, multiple aquariums, multiple waterfalls, a cave, a bowling alley, and a cypress swamp with live alligators.
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I hate to be a party pooper, but the pyramid in Memphis is a bit of a salvage job. The structure was built for sports and exhibitions back in 1991, but the developers never saw the crowds they'd promised, and the thing never, ever paid for itself. So, the city and Shelby County gave incentives for its original construction, and then were left holding the bag when it failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid

They casted about for quite some time, and the county sold its interest in the property and the city was left with it. It took over five years for the city and Bass Pro to negotiate their 55 year lease, and the taxpayers ponied up another $30 million to renovate the site.

Memphis is on a long decline, like St. Louis, with crime skyrocketing and money leaving.

I visited the pyramid about two years ago when meeting my sister and her husband in Memphis to hand off a car. Her husband is a gun dealer, so he wanted to go to the pyramid to buy hollow points. He's one of those idiots that thinks he's gonna eventually fight off the ATF. While we were in there, I saw the hotel rooms up in the top, and they are dark and depressing. Cannot imagine who would pay over $400 a night to stay there. And downtown is a series of ghettos where you're be a fool to stop to buy gas there.
 
belamyi said:
Sounds redundant.

In America?!

What's the difference between retail as usual and retail theme park over there?

Next thing, they will be putting on a "theme park" in Vegas.
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Pity the tourist who sees cities in the USA with homeless encampments and crime - but enters a petrol station and finds Retail Disneyland.
Or visits a sporting goods shop and gets lost inside Retail Disney World.

All of this gives me the same feeling I have about cruise ships.
My idea of a vacation does not include a floating city, just like I don't need a theme park to buy a Bass Pro Shop hat.

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I don’t know if anything beats Jungle Jim’s International Market

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EddMarkStarr said:
Pity the tourist who sees cities in the USA with homeless encampments and crime - but enters a petrol station and finds Retail Disneyland.
Or visits a sporting goods shop and gets lost inside Retail Disney World.

All of this gives me the same feeling I have about cruise ships.
My idea of a vacation does not include a floating city, just like I don't need a theme park to buy a Bass Pro Shop hat.

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I'm not sure "theme park" is what anyone in Memphis would use to describe the pyramid. It's merely a superstore. Bass Pro and other sporting goods superstores like Cabelas work hard to expand the customer base beyond the man of the house. They need him to bring the gf or wife and kids, or both, and be tied up for some time. Men's shopping habits in person do not resemble women's, as men tend to go in for a specific buy, get it, and get out. So, these stores have demos, animals, clothes, and all sorts of diversions to get families in. REI does something similar, but they are for more active customers than hunting goods.

Unless a site has roller coasters and $8 hotdogs, no one thinks of them as a "park."
 
My first thought is that all that tat increases overheads and shoppers will be paying extra for it
 
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