Popular Post Yesitisdakid Posted August 17 Popular Post Share Posted August 17 (edited) The first photo was taken exactly one year ago today. The second photo was taken this morning. I never thought they developed that lot I'm glad they have photos from my balcony Edited August 17 by Yesitisdakid 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I moved here just after New Year but in the last two months a new chain of mini supermarkets have sprung up in the local area. They are very similar to Tesco Go-Fresh shops and called PJ Stores. One in the local village/town opens tomorrow and has taken less than two months to build and stock. The other one in Det Udom has been open a month or so and also took about the same time to build and stock. Interestingly both are situated next to busy markets so everything can be bought in one location. We will be going tomorrow ....... 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forcebwithu Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Wonder where Mr. Pig ended up after they cleared and built over his favorite hang out spot. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 4 minutes ago, forcebwithu said: Wonder where Mr. Pig ended up after they cleared and built over his favorite hang out spot. I'm here mate !!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggles Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 (edited) I go down Soi Arunothai regularly and have been very surprised at the amount of development on the back round through to third road in recent times. Most of it does seem to be aimed at locals, while the long standing farang bars on Arunothai appear quite empty of customers. Edited August 17 by biggles Typo 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesitisdakid Posted August 17 Author Share Posted August 17 1 hour ago, biggles said: I go down Soi Arunothai regularly and have been very surprised at the amount of development on the back round through to third road in recent times. Most of it does seem to be aimed at locals, while the long standing farang bars on Arunothai appear quite empty of customers. Those bars you speak of are very very slow even high season when all the condos here in the development are rented out still they just don't do a tremendous amount of business. Traditional Thai thinking when they build those I'm guessing they're thought was we'll build some bars and look at all the customers will have between the big condo complex Nirun and 9 carat which I'm guessing there's probably about 4,500 to 5,000 units in the two complexes together. Trouble is most of them are full-timers that live in these complexes and why they may make one of those bars their home bar the full-timers generally aren't the ones that are spending much money let's be realistic. There is a small unit in Nirun here that a woman rented and she put in a really nice woman's clothing store she did a really nice job with it it looked good she opened every day at 10:00 in the morning till 9:00 at night never saw one single customer in there when I would sit across from them and have a drink day after day. 2 months later she closed and some lady thought she could make a pizza parlor out of it that lasted one month and it closed it is now a massage parlor here in the complex there are four of them never once have I seen a customer in any of the four. I think they get these places because the rent is cheap and they think hell will make a go of it but who's going to come from the outside all the way down here in the complex to buy a ladies shirt or get a massage when you go by hundreds of them to get here. No business sense and no one does their homework 1 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Dangleberries Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 On 8/17/2024 at 11:16 AM, Derek Dangleberries said: They are very similar to Tesco Go-Fresh shops and called PJ Stores. They are actually called "CJ More" stores and we went to the local one today. It was pretty much perfect for weekly shopping next door to the market (we stayed in the same car park for everything). We bought all the normal household stuff in the shop and M'lady bought our usual amount of pig's hearts, bananas, dragon fruit etc from the market and her niece bought clothes for her daughter.. Apparently they are spreading across Thailand at the moment .. but unsure if they all target local markets though .. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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