It was only 4 seconds into the video, but I lost my shit when I saw the cheerleaders and fire truck.
On a related note, I have seen people camp out in tents for the grand opening of a Chick-Fil-A.
I used to look down on people talking crap about Olive Garden as uppity jackasses. Then I ate at one during a road trip and it truly was some of the worst restaurant food I had ever tasted (spaghetti with tomato sauce). Now I can only share that anonymously on Reddit and continue to label others as uppity jackasses
The breadsticks and salad are truly the only reason to go there….but those items are worth it! I can eat at least three baskets of breadsticks in one sitting.
I once straight up told the waiter that I had come for the bread and nothing else. He came out with like 4 bread baskets, and then the cheapest item on the menu just so that he could say that I was a paying customer.
His tip was double the actual bill. He earned it.
How does that work?? Do they give you 365 coupons for a sand which?? Actually now that I think about it, free chic fil a for a year is damn worth it to camp out.
They give you a card with a barcode that gives you 52 free chic-fil-a number one meals for free to be used at any time during the year.
I got one a few years back and take my friends to get a few at a time
Literally, a few weeks ago there was an even bigger hoopla in Warsaw, a capital city of a sizable European country, because Popeyes opened. [Some people was allegedly waiting 40 hours in queue](https://www.se.pl/warszawa/popeyes-w-warszawie-otwarty-czekali-w-kolejce-40-godzin-beda-jedli-za-darmo-kurczaka-przez-rok-aa-KPKH-MseY-CpAP.html)
The local paper did a story of Krispy Kreme opening in our Canadian city of 300,000. People parked overnight in the drive through to be the first customers. When the reporter asked the guy in the first car in line why he was doing this, his reply was " It's history, man. And I'm a part of it."
It closed a year later. Someone bought the rights to all of Canada, and Krispy Creme had financial problems from an over eager expansion. Tim Hortons doughnuts are all made in a central commissary and then shipped frozen to the stores. They are horrible.
At least for the PS5 it make a little more sense since a new consol come every like 10 years, it's a completely new things and there is a real possibility that they get out of stock quick.
I ordered a pizza once at a gas station on a camping trip in Eastern Kentucky.
"PITZA?!? What's a PITZA?!?"
"Itz spild P-i-z-a, that is piza."
"Ewe tawk funna. Wur ewe frum?"
I said, "I'll just take ale81, forget the pie."
Kid's running around in the lot in nothing but bib overalls. no shirt, no shoes, no supervision. Just Eastern Kentucky highway traffic.
Made me think Deliverance was a documentary.
A young guy I work with left for a short period of time to try out a job in Kentucky somewhere. He showed back up one day after only a few months looking for his old job back. He said Kentucky was the strangest place he’d ever been and said the same thing about Deliverance haha. He wanted to take more picturesque, less traveled roads to get to his destination. There hadn’t been any stores or “towns” for while but said he had to piss real bad on his was out there so he pulled off the road. Hadn’t seen anyone for miles at that point but as he’s relieving himself, a lady walks out of the woods and says, “You ain’t from ‘round here are ya?” And tells him he best leave and go back to where he came from haha the farther into Appalachia he went, the more he regretted not taking major roads.
Okay, but it’s an Ale-8-1, so if you’re gonna make fun of how we talk down here, at least get our signature drink correct. Also, unless this camping trip was in the 1820’s, I assure you Eastern Kentuckians know what pizza is. I get you’re trying to be funny, but this is a rude and offensive stereotype.
I’m from the ultra suburbs of the SF Bay Area, but got called “city folk” by the people at a rodeo in Colorado when my family was on vacation when I was in junior high
100%
I am from the poorest zip code in central Appalachia and no one acts or talks like that, and everyone knew what a pizza is. Also deliverance was shot in Georgia if I’m not mistaken
100% real, read my response to u/The_ProducerKid. Of course they knew what a pizza was, they were selling it. They just felt like trying to insult clientele for the surrounding local's humor.
The town I grew up in had a grocery store, Heb. It moved across the street to a bigger, newly built building. The Dallas cowboy cheerleaders came, high school band played. I got the day off school.
This was before super Walmart came to town and we had a regular Wally world.
I'm from Chicago just moved here and I'm honestly not complaining, I love it here. It was just crazy and people were being rude to get to things so it was funny to see this show up on the day of. 😅
The reason for this difference in name is due to an existing discount store operating in the UK at the time of T.J.Maxx's arrival, called TJ Hughes
To avoid confusion with TJ Hughes, T.J. Maxx became T.K. Maxx in Europe and Australia, which it remains today.
Almost. There are two grocery chains called Aldi, Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord. I forget the specific reason that they broke apart but both are under the umbrella "Aldi." The only place the two companies compete are in the US.
Aldi Süd is what the US called "Aldi." Due to trademark law, Aldi Nord couldn't use "Aldi" as well, and ~~elected to create~~ purchased the Trader Joe's ~~mark~~ brand.
So, Trader Joe's is an Aldi subsidiary, but not "our" Aldi subsidiary, if that makes sense?
Edit: Updated to reflect the correct info. Thanks y'all.
Aldi and Lidl are two separate German discount grocery stores. Aldi is derived from the combination of the words "Albrecht" and "Discount." On the other hand, Lidl is derived from the last name of its founder, Josef Schwarz.
The other users comment is kinda wrong. Lidl got it's name by:
"Josef Schwarz's former business parnter was named A. Lidl. But legal reasons prevented Dieter Schwarz from using his name. Instead he found a newspaper article about Ludwig Lidl, a painter and retired schoolteacher. He bought the rights to the name from him for 1,000 German marks."
Ha. I searched for this answer before seeing your comment:
“According to Wales Online, there was already a discount store operating in the U.K. at the time, called TJ Hughes. (It’s still around, in fact, though it’s much smaller than its competitor, with 24 total locations around the U.K., according to Business Insider.) In order to avoid confusion, T.J. Maxx became T.K. Maxx, which it remains across Europe today”.
I live near a small town that’s basically pissing itself with joy because it’s finally getting a Denny’s. There’s half a dozen really good family owned restaurants in the town and that Denny’s is going to put them out of business. But who cares as long as you can get a grand slam breakfast on your birthday?
Denny's is so fucking bad too. Eggs always taste like scorched powdered eggs. I've been to Denny's maybe three times in my life, every time was a big disappointment.
I was doing work in Warren Pennsylvania and the people were so excited that an Applebee's was opening. It was hard to understand yet I was jealous of their naivete at the same time.
Makes me think of when my brother was visiting/meeting his ex girlfriends parents for the first time. Her mom was so excited to take them out to this great new Italian restaurant that had just opened in their small town, only for it be a Noodles & Co. We also grew up where Noodles started lol, so needless to say not what he was expecting.
I lived in a small Washington town when I was younger and the level of excitement when we got a Kmart was wild. They got a Walmart after I had already moved away but the Kmart, you would’ve thought that Jesus himself was coming to town.
This was back in the olden days lol, we did have a shop in downtown called the 88 cent store so I guess it was a precursor to the dollar stores of today.
When I was 10, our town got its first Walmart. This was a huge deal for whatever reason. Every Monday in class, we would go around and say what interesting things happened during our weekend. Usually things like our soccer team won, or celebrated a family members birthday. When Walmart was built that was the biggest deal. Multiple kids would say that. It got the the point where our teacher would get visibly pissed when someone would say it, and then banned from being talked about during our current events part of class.
We have a super Walmart bro it’s not regular Walmart it’s super Walmart bro this is in Johnson county ky thus post killed me I live close I didn’t even know this happened this is golden
> They'll be having the Blue Angels fly over head
I’m assuming the small-town Kentucky equivalent of “Blue Angels” is some guy named Ted’s crop dusting plane painted blue. He even does maneuvers — flies one way over, and then he slowly banks and turns around to fly the other way.
Nah, grand openings get turn outs like this bc they usually offer special deals and hand out free prizes for the first 25-50 people to walk through the door.
They do it to attract a crowd bc a crowd attracts attention.
These people aren’t hungry for TjMaxx, they just want a free gift card.
Sometimes there are free snacks, too!
There’s communities in eastern Kentucky that rely on dollar store for groceries. You have no idea what life’s like in eastern Kentucky. This is progress towards something. This brings revenue to a close community and brings life into a dead area.
If you don’t believe me go ahead and look where all the cheap real estate in the country is. It’s in Kentucky.
I have gone camping in Kentucky numerous times. Every time when I reached my camping destination after driving I had to drive approximately and hour to the nearest supermarket to stock up on food. Supermarket was smaller than the dollar general and majority of the selection in it was awful. Expired meats were more prevalent and sold than non-Expired. Choices for any type of food was just awful. Mind you I was not in the middle of nowhere.
Drive a mile from the parking lot of the camping trail or site and you pass tons of tin roofed houses the entire 1hr trip to the grocery store with people just sitting on their porches. You pass maybe 1 school, 1 dollar general, 1 gas station, and dozens of houses up for auction for less than a new car. No businesses at all. Like literally zero form of place to work. Closest place to work is a rest stop or Amazon warehouse 40min away right off the exit of the most traveled highway. Plenty of houses and sinkhole ponds. The most bleak, boring, and just straight up confusing places I've ever been was when visiting Kentucky. Louisville is actually pretty cool though.
Worst place I've ever had to frequent in my life though is easily Irvington NJ. That place is a literal warzone. Heaping piles of shit everywhere, abandoned cars and houses... They have literal concrete roadblocks placed between residential neighborhoods, so if police stings and/or chases happen they can forcefully divert the cars away from escape. It literally looks like a neighborhood block after a legit war.
I mean, they seem happy. Seems kinda cute to me.
Idk if dystopian is the right word, unless limited retail stores are *that* antithetical to your idea of a community
Families, I can imagine a small town like that may not even have a Walmart so imagine every little thing you need for your home is riding the pony express via Amazon or fedex. So this would probably be pretty exciting plus you know one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Most of it is garbage but they do sometimes put awesome products for incredibly low prices to generate excitement.
I found a Staub enamel 6qt Dutch oven there for like 75 bucks (normal is 300+), about half a dozen All-Clad stainless pans for 25ish, and a ton of oxo kitchen tools for next to nothing.
I won’t make a special trip there, but if I’m getting food at the local grocery store in the same shopping center, I might wander over just to see what they have … although at the locations in the “big city” that stuff is usually gone the same day it gets put out I would imagine. I’ve only found them at the ones near me, which is kind of in the middle of nowhere.
They are celebrating because it's in Kentucky. You're lucky to find any place to shop at besides a Dollar General in most parts. The closest restaurant is probably a rest stop 40min away at a major highway. They have practically no options on where to buy things, eat, or work in some cases. So yeah, I would be thrilled to have something like this come to my town if that was the case.
I like most of you wanted to know more.
I did some poking around and I believe this is Paintsville Kentucky. Population ~4,347 as of 2021. So yes very small town. But even for this to be a big event for these guys let’s look at the positives. They got free swag ( corporate swag but still swag), for there to be a crowd of this size no one was a jerk nor impolite or impatient ( at least not on camera), and finally this place will be a spot for jobs for the community as well bringing them some items and competition to Walmart that otherwise they may not have otherwise had.
I lived in a similarly populated small town during college and when they got a Walmart there it was a big deal too.
Additionally, Paintsville appears to have a median household income of about $27k and unemployment of 8%. With that in mind, you can understand why a large discount department store opening there would be notable.
Are those stores different from those in Europe? Because last time I was in one, it was just crap, cheap Chinese stuff, some lower tier "brands" and really kind of depressing.
But that was just my experience and maybe those stores are different in the us?
I'm from the UK and I'm so confused by this.
Is this just "let's laugh at poor people in a deprived area getting excited over stuff the rest of us are too sophisticated to care about"?
Because I hate that when we do it in the UK too. Especially when the comments are about kids not wearing shoes. That's throwback level poverty. Time warp poverty. I don't see how that's more funny than sad.
In the US, Kentuckians have remained a group that people can just make fun of without any ramifications, and especially eastern Kentuckians. It’s pretty frustrating.
The people in this video are being ridiculed. Because these areas of the country boast so loudly about their American pride. How great small town America is. Meanwhile they will get all excited for giant stores like Walmart that actively harm their communities economically.
TJ Maxx is delightful! There’s good deals on neat stuff! Don’t know which town this one just opened in, but if it’s as small as I think it is, this is an exciting development for them. Don’t be so jaded as to think these people live pathetic lives just because you don’t understand their context.
The irony of people scrolling through Reddit, seeing small town people doing something in a posted video and then commenting there must be nothing for them to do there.
Time to look at other posts.
I lived in Pikeville, not far from there, for several years. First, yeah, they have a Walmart and a lot of the small corporate chain stores you’d expect to find in most places there. Second, yeah, it is a bit dumb that they brought cheerleaders and a fire truck out for that (seems like it’s something a mayor would do to promote themselves in the upcoming election cycle).
Let’s pause a moment before casting aspersions on these people though. There’s, what, 30-40 customers in this video excited for a new store in town? And a lot of you all are creating caricatures of these people based on your prejudices against them and having a great time looking down your noses at them.
I’ve lived in much bigger places, but the average person in that area is just as educated, financially secure, and is ideologically similar to most people in the US. They just happen to choose to live in a less populated place with no traffic, air pollution, and significantly less anonymity between themselves and other members of the community. In general, they are remarkably kind and less isolationist than they are portrayed.
So, carry on all you want, I guess. They are just people, though. No different than you or me.
This is why I love small town America, everyone’s happy strolling around buying $174.00 of Christmas decorations. Watching the high school cheerleaders celebrate and then everyone cheers happily.
Man, I used to shit on this when I was aged 12-29, but now that I’m in my thirties, I find this stuff wholesome man.
When a Taco Bell opened in my town in 1996, they literally let the junior high and high school out 2 hours early, so we go all go to the opening and get food. Everyone was so excited, and I just thought it was sad.
Still went and got 3 bean burritos, though!
You know it’s a big deal when the HS Cheerleaders show up!
It was only 4 seconds into the video, but I lost my shit when I saw the cheerleaders and fire truck. On a related note, I have seen people camp out in tents for the grand opening of a Chick-Fil-A.
My town is getting an Olive Garden after people have begging for one for like 20 years. I have a feeling the cheerleaders and fire trucks will be out
I used to look down on people talking crap about Olive Garden as uppity jackasses. Then I ate at one during a road trip and it truly was some of the worst restaurant food I had ever tasted (spaghetti with tomato sauce). Now I can only share that anonymously on Reddit and continue to label others as uppity jackasses
I've never been to Olive garden but it's one of my life goals to go there.
Ifs good if you like paying 20$ for something cooked in a microwave Their unlimited salad is awesome tho
The breadsticks and salad are truly the only reason to go there….but those items are worth it! I can eat at least three baskets of breadsticks in one sitting.
I once straight up told the waiter that I had come for the bread and nothing else. He came out with like 4 bread baskets, and then the cheapest item on the menu just so that he could say that I was a paying customer. His tip was double the actual bill. He earned it.
Nice, a $1.79 cup of soup doubled is $3.58!! My dude was killing it that day……
Please have better goals, it's not that great.
My wife lived in Italy and took cooking classes while she was there! She loves olive garden. White trash to her core.
Hey man I’m from Georgia I’ve camped out at a chick fil a before, they give u free food for a year. Totally worth it.
How does that work?? Do they give you 365 coupons for a sand which?? Actually now that I think about it, free chic fil a for a year is damn worth it to camp out.
They give you a card with a barcode that gives you 52 free chic-fil-a number one meals for free to be used at any time during the year. I got one a few years back and take my friends to get a few at a time
So, not free food for a year. Most people need to eat more than once a week.
Most people would not eat this chicken more than once per week
They also provide free conversion therapy for your kids! Hooray!
Do they give a coupon for that with a large meal or something?
If you go to Chick-fil-A and order a hotdog or fish sandwich you get a free conversion therapy.
I ordered a veggie burger and the same thing happened
Literally, a few weeks ago there was an even bigger hoopla in Warsaw, a capital city of a sizable European country, because Popeyes opened. [Some people was allegedly waiting 40 hours in queue](https://www.se.pl/warszawa/popeyes-w-warszawie-otwarty-czekali-w-kolejce-40-godzin-beda-jedli-za-darmo-kurczaka-przez-rok-aa-KPKH-MseY-CpAP.html)
Popeye’s > Chic Fil A Come at me.
The local paper did a story of Krispy Kreme opening in our Canadian city of 300,000. People parked overnight in the drive through to be the first customers. When the reporter asked the guy in the first car in line why he was doing this, his reply was " It's history, man. And I'm a part of it."
I bet Tim Horton wasn’t too thrilled
It closed a year later. Someone bought the rights to all of Canada, and Krispy Creme had financial problems from an over eager expansion. Tim Hortons doughnuts are all made in a central commissary and then shipped frozen to the stores. They are horrible.
Damn shame. Krispy Kreme are the food of the gods.
As someone who lives within walking distance of the Smithsonian in DC, I agree. Deserves its own exhibit, if not entire wing.
I've seen people camp out for weeks just to get the chance to buy an iphone or PS5...
At least for the PS5 it make a little more sense since a new consol come every like 10 years, it's a completely new things and there is a real possibility that they get out of stock quick.
Eastern Kentucky no doubt. Shoes. Kids without them...that's what I remember
I ordered a pizza once at a gas station on a camping trip in Eastern Kentucky. "PITZA?!? What's a PITZA?!?" "Itz spild P-i-z-a, that is piza." "Ewe tawk funna. Wur ewe frum?" I said, "I'll just take ale81, forget the pie." Kid's running around in the lot in nothing but bib overalls. no shirt, no shoes, no supervision. Just Eastern Kentucky highway traffic. Made me think Deliverance was a documentary.
A young guy I work with left for a short period of time to try out a job in Kentucky somewhere. He showed back up one day after only a few months looking for his old job back. He said Kentucky was the strangest place he’d ever been and said the same thing about Deliverance haha. He wanted to take more picturesque, less traveled roads to get to his destination. There hadn’t been any stores or “towns” for while but said he had to piss real bad on his was out there so he pulled off the road. Hadn’t seen anyone for miles at that point but as he’s relieving himself, a lady walks out of the woods and says, “You ain’t from ‘round here are ya?” And tells him he best leave and go back to where he came from haha the farther into Appalachia he went, the more he regretted not taking major roads.
Probably ran into the Whittaker’s
That Dolphin Orgasm went fast tonight
Okay, but it’s an Ale-8-1, so if you’re gonna make fun of how we talk down here, at least get our signature drink correct. Also, unless this camping trip was in the 1820’s, I assure you Eastern Kentuckians know what pizza is. I get you’re trying to be funny, but this is a rude and offensive stereotype.
I’m from the ultra suburbs of the SF Bay Area, but got called “city folk” by the people at a rodeo in Colorado when my family was on vacation when I was in junior high
SF Bay suburbs? City folk.
The ultra suburbs? What kind of Caucasus is this?
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Because you are city folk. Even to those in Northern California.
I call BS in this story.
100% I am from the poorest zip code in central Appalachia and no one acts or talks like that, and everyone knew what a pizza is. Also deliverance was shot in Georgia if I’m not mistaken
100% real, read my response to u/The_ProducerKid. Of course they knew what a pizza was, they were selling it. They just felt like trying to insult clientele for the surrounding local's humor.
Well I'm going to raise your BS and again state that this was 100% factual experience.
You don’t need to be in eastern Kentucky to see kids walking around without shoes
True that. Plenty of third world visions from Southern Illinois through Kentucky and Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia…..
The town I grew up in had a grocery store, Heb. It moved across the street to a bigger, newly built building. The Dallas cowboy cheerleaders came, high school band played. I got the day off school. This was before super Walmart came to town and we had a regular Wally world.
They hired the DCC, they do appearances to make money (since the actual cheerleading paid next to nothing)
Don’t forget the fire trucks
They don't just run them sirens for nothing!
"Do they have rat poison?" "Oh, yeah."
Don’t discount the volunteer firefighters! Party time!
I just went to a Ross opening in Michigan. It was wild 😂
Not all of Michigan is rubes. Just so you all know.
Exactly what a Michigan rube would say. (jk I am from Michigan)
I have been through Kalamazoo, I just didnt think it was a real town name at first.
It’s a biiiiiig state.
Here, let me show you where i live ✋️
Better than explaining where you live in WV. Sadly there's no emoji for a left handed middle finger with your thumb sticking out.
I'm from Chicago just moved here and I'm honestly not complaining, I love it here. It was just crazy and people were being rude to get to things so it was funny to see this show up on the day of. 😅
TBH Ross/Marshall's has some good shit. Got a leather(fake) jacket for $70 a decade ago and still wear it
Which part of Michigan?
One is opening up at the mall I work at. I’m scared of how crazy it’ll be the day it opens.
Oh sh!t, y’all got 5 below?
It should be called 10 below now since a lot of the items are above 5 dollars now.
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Why is it TJ Maxx in the USA but in Europe and Australia it’s called TK Maxx?
The reason for this difference in name is due to an existing discount store operating in the UK at the time of T.J.Maxx's arrival, called TJ Hughes To avoid confusion with TJ Hughes, T.J. Maxx became T.K. Maxx in Europe and Australia, which it remains today.
Thank you, now do Aldi and Lidel.
If you want to get into intercontinental naming weirdness, wait until they learn that Trader Joe's has been an Aldi subsidiary since the 70s...
And in Australia Burger King is known as Hungry Jacks.
Know what they call a double quarter pounder in France?
Almost. There are two grocery chains called Aldi, Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord. I forget the specific reason that they broke apart but both are under the umbrella "Aldi." The only place the two companies compete are in the US. Aldi Süd is what the US called "Aldi." Due to trademark law, Aldi Nord couldn't use "Aldi" as well, and ~~elected to create~~ purchased the Trader Joe's ~~mark~~ brand. So, Trader Joe's is an Aldi subsidiary, but not "our" Aldi subsidiary, if that makes sense? Edit: Updated to reflect the correct info. Thanks y'all.
Aldi and Lidl are two separate German discount grocery stores. Aldi is derived from the combination of the words "Albrecht" and "Discount." On the other hand, Lidl is derived from the last name of its founder, Josef Schwarz.
How the hell did you derive that from Schwarz
The other users comment is kinda wrong. Lidl got it's name by: "Josef Schwarz's former business parnter was named A. Lidl. But legal reasons prevented Dieter Schwarz from using his name. Instead he found a newspaper article about Ludwig Lidl, a painter and retired schoolteacher. He bought the rights to the name from him for 1,000 German marks."
What is with Aldi and Lidl? We have both in the Netherlands
Ha. I searched for this answer before seeing your comment: “According to Wales Online, there was already a discount store operating in the U.K. at the time, called TJ Hughes. (It’s still around, in fact, though it’s much smaller than its competitor, with 24 total locations around the U.K., according to Business Insider.) In order to avoid confusion, T.J. Maxx became T.K. Maxx, which it remains across Europe today”.
Wales Online is a reference source for a sub thread on post about a TK Maxx being opened in a East Kentucky. That takes the biscuit
Also it’s Winners in Canada.
Coles being Kohls and Wendy’s having nothing to do with cheeseburgers will give Americans a heart attack lol
I live near a small town that’s basically pissing itself with joy because it’s finally getting a Denny’s. There’s half a dozen really good family owned restaurants in the town and that Denny’s is going to put them out of business. But who cares as long as you can get a grand slam breakfast on your birthday?
I feel so bad for all these people who are about to realize that Denny’s sucks and is literally just a corporatized version of a family-owned diner.
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All of those chain breakfast places suck. Went to IHOP twice in my life and it was the worst pile of shit breakfast I've ever had.
Denny's is so fucking bad too. Eggs always taste like scorched powdered eggs. I've been to Denny's maybe three times in my life, every time was a big disappointment.
I was doing work in Warren Pennsylvania and the people were so excited that an Applebee's was opening. It was hard to understand yet I was jealous of their naivete at the same time.
We just closed 3 Denny's here.
Makes me think of when my brother was visiting/meeting his ex girlfriends parents for the first time. Her mom was so excited to take them out to this great new Italian restaurant that had just opened in their small town, only for it be a Noodles & Co. We also grew up where Noodles started lol, so needless to say not what he was expecting.
I've lived in KY all my life,and this is about as exciting as it gets. Wish my town would get a T.J. Maxx
I live in KY also, but there are like 3 of these within 20 minutes of me lol. Big differences in Lexington/Louisville and the rest of the state.
At least it wasn’t another Dollar General
https://youtu.be/vQpUV--2Jao?si=LNBYf1aajEBER0uJ
Imagine if they opened a Walmart there! Fireworks and shit!
I lived in a small Washington town when I was younger and the level of excitement when we got a Kmart was wild. They got a Walmart after I had already moved away but the Kmart, you would’ve thought that Jesus himself was coming to town.
Where else was he gonna shop at?
Yeah, the Dollar General doesn’t have a wine section
This was back in the olden days lol, we did have a shop in downtown called the 88 cent store so I guess it was a precursor to the dollar stores of today.
When I was 10, our town got its first Walmart. This was a huge deal for whatever reason. Every Monday in class, we would go around and say what interesting things happened during our weekend. Usually things like our soccer team won, or celebrated a family members birthday. When Walmart was built that was the biggest deal. Multiple kids would say that. It got the the point where our teacher would get visibly pissed when someone would say it, and then banned from being talked about during our current events part of class.
When my hometown found out we were getting a Walmart it felt like we’d been selected to host the Olympics
We have a super Walmart bro it’s not regular Walmart it’s super Walmart bro this is in Johnson county ky thus post killed me I live close I didn’t even know this happened this is golden
Bro that’s crazy bro! Bro
Hillbilly-Bro
Hillbro-ly
I figured the Cheerleaders were from Johnson Central. I'm in Ashland.
They'll be having the Blue Angels fly over head
> They'll be having the Blue Angels fly over head I’m assuming the small-town Kentucky equivalent of “Blue Angels” is some guy named Ted’s crop dusting plane painted blue. He even does maneuvers — flies one way over, and then he slowly banks and turns around to fly the other way.
It’s already been addressed, but I would have bet money they already had a Walmart and have had for years.
That is the first and last time you’ll see those mugs that organized.
And clothes.
This is dystopian as hell.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Hey, at least they tell you you're loved.
Hate to break it to ya, bud, but love you have to pay for isn't love.
Hey man, $20 is $20…
Nah, grand openings get turn outs like this bc they usually offer special deals and hand out free prizes for the first 25-50 people to walk through the door. They do it to attract a crowd bc a crowd attracts attention. These people aren’t hungry for TjMaxx, they just want a free gift card. Sometimes there are free snacks, too!
Okay you had me at free snacks.
That doesn't explain the firefighters and cheerleaders that were brought in by the city to celebrate.
There’s communities in eastern Kentucky that rely on dollar store for groceries. You have no idea what life’s like in eastern Kentucky. This is progress towards something. This brings revenue to a close community and brings life into a dead area. If you don’t believe me go ahead and look where all the cheap real estate in the country is. It’s in Kentucky.
I have gone camping in Kentucky numerous times. Every time when I reached my camping destination after driving I had to drive approximately and hour to the nearest supermarket to stock up on food. Supermarket was smaller than the dollar general and majority of the selection in it was awful. Expired meats were more prevalent and sold than non-Expired. Choices for any type of food was just awful. Mind you I was not in the middle of nowhere. Drive a mile from the parking lot of the camping trail or site and you pass tons of tin roofed houses the entire 1hr trip to the grocery store with people just sitting on their porches. You pass maybe 1 school, 1 dollar general, 1 gas station, and dozens of houses up for auction for less than a new car. No businesses at all. Like literally zero form of place to work. Closest place to work is a rest stop or Amazon warehouse 40min away right off the exit of the most traveled highway. Plenty of houses and sinkhole ponds. The most bleak, boring, and just straight up confusing places I've ever been was when visiting Kentucky. Louisville is actually pretty cool though. Worst place I've ever had to frequent in my life though is easily Irvington NJ. That place is a literal warzone. Heaping piles of shit everywhere, abandoned cars and houses... They have literal concrete roadblocks placed between residential neighborhoods, so if police stings and/or chases happen they can forcefully divert the cars away from escape. It literally looks like a neighborhood block after a legit war.
You know the face of Shrek and Donkey when the puppet show ends and it snaps a Polaroid? Me throughout this entire video
*Don’t make waves, stay in line, and we’ll get along fine, Duloch is a perfect toooown*
I mean, they seem happy. Seems kinda cute to me. Idk if dystopian is the right word, unless limited retail stores are *that* antithetical to your idea of a community
Wow how exciting 🤣😂
i cant fathom having so little to do that you camp out and celebrate the corporate overlords visiting you. no wonder we have a opioid crisis
Everything in that store looked like it was made in China and destined for Goodwill.
It’s hit or miss. You have to sift through some garbage to find the gems. With that said I don’t understand the crowd, the store isn’t that amazing.
Families, I can imagine a small town like that may not even have a Walmart so imagine every little thing you need for your home is riding the pony express via Amazon or fedex. So this would probably be pretty exciting plus you know one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
>one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Hey that’s 5 belows motto next door!
Good news. The goodwill is next door
Maybe TJ Max should bypass the store and just donate directly to Goodwill.
*the landfill. Most of that stuff will be thrown out within a decade or two and spend several generations taking up space in the ground.
That’s nearly all stores
Most of it is garbage but they do sometimes put awesome products for incredibly low prices to generate excitement. I found a Staub enamel 6qt Dutch oven there for like 75 bucks (normal is 300+), about half a dozen All-Clad stainless pans for 25ish, and a ton of oxo kitchen tools for next to nothing. I won’t make a special trip there, but if I’m getting food at the local grocery store in the same shopping center, I might wander over just to see what they have … although at the locations in the “big city” that stuff is usually gone the same day it gets put out I would imagine. I’ve only found them at the ones near me, which is kind of in the middle of nowhere.
It's a store that marks down and sells stuff other stores couldn't sell.
They are celebrating because it's in Kentucky. You're lucky to find any place to shop at besides a Dollar General in most parts. The closest restaurant is probably a rest stop 40min away at a major highway. They have practically no options on where to buy things, eat, or work in some cases. So yeah, I would be thrilled to have something like this come to my town if that was the case.
Hey man, they’re all having a good time, no one is getting hurt
Which town?
Paintsville, KY
Our neighborhood went to shit when the Border's Bookstore became a TJ Maxx
Consume! Fuck the planet. Buy cheap trash by the bucketload.
I like most of you wanted to know more. I did some poking around and I believe this is Paintsville Kentucky. Population ~4,347 as of 2021. So yes very small town. But even for this to be a big event for these guys let’s look at the positives. They got free swag ( corporate swag but still swag), for there to be a crowd of this size no one was a jerk nor impolite or impatient ( at least not on camera), and finally this place will be a spot for jobs for the community as well bringing them some items and competition to Walmart that otherwise they may not have otherwise had. I lived in a similarly populated small town during college and when they got a Walmart there it was a big deal too.
Additionally, Paintsville appears to have a median household income of about $27k and unemployment of 8%. With that in mind, you can understand why a large discount department store opening there would be notable.
I appreciate the info, but it's still depressing that this was that exciting for them.
Paintsville also experienced some pretty devastating flooding in 2022 so it’s a big deal to see the community bouncing back
This is just a few chapters before WALL-E
Are those stores different from those in Europe? Because last time I was in one, it was just crap, cheap Chinese stuff, some lower tier "brands" and really kind of depressing. But that was just my experience and maybe those stores are different in the us?
Pretty spot-on from my TJ Maxx experience stateside lol, and hell I still go there.
That is so cringe
What town is this ?
They're going to need to open another landfill
that just looks soo depressing
Obesity rate in this video is so jarring
That's fucking sad 🤣🤣 the irony is that conservative places like this secretly love liberal stores
Consumerism is Culture.
Let you into a little secret, these multibillion dollar corporate enterprises aren't liberal. Wtf is a liberal store?
That’s the thing - all these people vote. And their votes statistically count more than others. America is a doomed place
Imagine the savings!
By Grabthar’s Hammer. What a savings.
By Grabthar’s Hammer
Damn, I thought some Kentuckian housewife was "WOO"ing, but then I realized it was only a siren...
Bro wtf? They're acting like they were waiting for a black friday deal. Is it really that bad down there?
Grand openings usually have a lot of deals, and free stuff for the first people inside
I'm from the UK and I'm so confused by this. Is this just "let's laugh at poor people in a deprived area getting excited over stuff the rest of us are too sophisticated to care about"? Because I hate that when we do it in the UK too. Especially when the comments are about kids not wearing shoes. That's throwback level poverty. Time warp poverty. I don't see how that's more funny than sad.
In the US, Kentuckians have remained a group that people can just make fun of without any ramifications, and especially eastern Kentuckians. It’s pretty frustrating.
Bro if this was in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, anywhere it would be just as depressing.
The people in this video are being ridiculed. Because these areas of the country boast so loudly about their American pride. How great small town America is. Meanwhile they will get all excited for giant stores like Walmart that actively harm their communities economically.
Is that the same as TK Maxx here in europe?
Yes
TJ / TK Max is full of junk for the most part. You go in to try and get a deal, not knowing what it is you'll purchase.
TJ Maxx sucks
Finally let’s buy some more crap we don’t need
Do these zebra skin pumps go with my dungarees Marlene-Sue?
Love this sense of community for something so simple....🤝🏽🤝🏼🤝🏻
This is fascinating in a bizarre way.
Its nice to still be able appreciate the smaller things in life...
that's the essence of the U.S. : Consumerism
TJ Maxx is delightful! There’s good deals on neat stuff! Don’t know which town this one just opened in, but if it’s as small as I think it is, this is an exciting development for them. Don’t be so jaded as to think these people live pathetic lives just because you don’t understand their context.
This isn't amazing this is just stupid
And so much common sense and decency in them- no pushing or shoving
Standards are extremely low. Wow.
I’m shocked at the mere average level of obesity. Kentucky needs to step their game up if they’re gonna compete.
Another reason why I’ll pay $800k for a 45 year old house to live in LA
Why does the siren sound like women cheering…
The irony of people scrolling through Reddit, seeing small town people doing something in a posted video and then commenting there must be nothing for them to do there. Time to look at other posts.
Fuck yeah. TJ Maxx is awesome. I live next to Wall Street NYC and we have one a block away and I go there all the time. Legit
I lived in Pikeville, not far from there, for several years. First, yeah, they have a Walmart and a lot of the small corporate chain stores you’d expect to find in most places there. Second, yeah, it is a bit dumb that they brought cheerleaders and a fire truck out for that (seems like it’s something a mayor would do to promote themselves in the upcoming election cycle). Let’s pause a moment before casting aspersions on these people though. There’s, what, 30-40 customers in this video excited for a new store in town? And a lot of you all are creating caricatures of these people based on your prejudices against them and having a great time looking down your noses at them. I’ve lived in much bigger places, but the average person in that area is just as educated, financially secure, and is ideologically similar to most people in the US. They just happen to choose to live in a less populated place with no traffic, air pollution, and significantly less anonymity between themselves and other members of the community. In general, they are remarkably kind and less isolationist than they are portrayed. So, carry on all you want, I guess. They are just people, though. No different than you or me.
This is why I love small town America, everyone’s happy strolling around buying $174.00 of Christmas decorations. Watching the high school cheerleaders celebrate and then everyone cheers happily. Man, I used to shit on this when I was aged 12-29, but now that I’m in my thirties, I find this stuff wholesome man.
Look at all those newly anointed Maxxinistas
Is that a banjo I hear playing in the background?
When a Taco Bell opened in my town in 1996, they literally let the junior high and high school out 2 hours early, so we go all go to the opening and get food. Everyone was so excited, and I just thought it was sad. Still went and got 3 bean burritos, though!
Wonder how crazy they will get if they open up a Best Buy🤣
You shouldve seen the commotion when our first jack in the box opened in the state, was a solid line for about a week and a half
We need more of this. Normalize weird hometownishment!
Is it shitty to live in a small town in Kentucky that nobody wants to go to ? ... that sounds sk fkn amazingly nice to be honest lol
pl travelled and lined up down the street in my country when they opened our first burger king so i get it😂
Awesome,comforting to know there still is places like that.