How can a business with record sales ever fail? A joke was posted on Twitter by SEC Fort Worth on January 2, 2017:
“We don’t understand why record stores failed. They had record sales every year.”
Twitter
SEC Fort Worth
@FortWorth_SEC
We don’t understand why record stores failed. They had record sales every year.
8:05 AM - 2 Jan 2017
Twitter
carlo please
@RaneBlu
i dont know why record stores failed. they had record sales every year
3:33 PM - 3 Jan 2017
Reddit—Dad Jokes
I don’t understand why record stores failed… (self.dadjokes)
submitted January 4, 2017 by SuperSpy827
...they had record sales every year.
Creds: @FortWorth_SEC
Reddit—Dad Jokes
I don’t understand why record stores are failing (self.dadjokes)
submitted May 10, 2017 by I_Fart_Liquids
They have record sales every year
Reddit—Jokes
I don’t get why record stores fail.
submitted July 13, 2017 by stark0788
They have record sales every year
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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