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Started by roadman65, October 02, 2024, 06:30:46 PM

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roadman65

We have seen two gas stations and such at the same interchanges and even posted on a long ago thread.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vjMuBvL2CjYjUbHq9

https://maps.app.goo.gl/upSFKGJXvYE1wf4V6

Now I have found two Chick Fil A restaurants in Tallahassee that Reno are on the same street just a few blocks apart.

Where the heck did autocorrect get Reno from.
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Publix has two stores a block from each other in Key West.  I couldn't decide if I preferred the Searstown or Key Plaza location when I lived there.

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1995hoo

At one point when I worked in downtown DC there were four Starbuckses within a two-block radius of my office.
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Wisconsin and Kwik Trip. Plenty of places where they are across the street from each other, and many decent size towns will have at least two, one on each end of town.

Hunty2022

There's a Starbucks in the Target in Hollymead, VA. There's another one on the other side of the shopping center at Towncenter Drive.
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There are two Rebel 7-11s across Charleston Blvd from each other at Rainbow Boulevard in Las Vegas. Both of the streets here are six-lane divided, so having the option to access either one of them depending on what side of the street you're on probably gets them more business.
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1995hoo

Quote from: Hunty2022 on October 02, 2024, 10:50:33 PMThere's a Starbucks in the Target in Hollymead, VA. There's another one on the other side of the shopping center at Towncenter Drive.

This comment prompts me to recall the Kingstowne Shopping Center here in Fairfax County. See Street View link below and notice the Starbucks location. The Giant Food grocery store immediately to the left also has an in-store Starbucks, so there are effectively two Starbuckses next door to each other. (The Safeway half a mile away at the far end of the shopping center, not visible in the Street View, also has an in-store Starbucks.)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/vqPNca5abCHdg3sc6
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roadman65

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Quote from: hotdogPi on October 02, 2024, 06:51:07 PMhttps://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=24425.0

The search engine sucks. I filled the box with two businesses and it didn't find it.

Plus the thread is over 120 days old with the red warning to start a new thread anyway. 
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A few examples I know of:

* There are Starbucks locations on 2 of the 4 corners at Preston/Park in Plano, north of Dallas (previously 3 of the 4 corners had SBs).
* A Target on NW Highway in Dallas has a CVS in it, meanwhile in the shopping center parking lot, there is a freestanding CVS at NW Hwy./Abrams.
* At the I-20/FM 314 exit in Van, east of Dallas, there are 2 Love's travel centers.  The NE corner location was there first for several years before Love's decided to put one on the NW corner.  No move was made to close or sell the NE one when or after the NW one opened.

1995hoo

Quote from: roadman65 on October 03, 2024, 08:36:34 AM
Quote from: hotdogPi on October 02, 2024, 06:51:07 PMhttps://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=24425.0

The search engine sucks. I filled the box with two businesses and it didn't find it.

Plus the thread is over 120 days old with the red warning to start a new thread anyway. 

It's not the search engine per se. If you typed "businesses," it wouldn't find the other thread because the subject line there is "business."
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Two Pilot travel centers on opposite sides of I-81 Exit 4 in Tennessee.
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Quote from: roadman65 on October 03, 2024, 08:36:34 AM
Quote from: hotdogPi on October 02, 2024, 06:51:07 PMhttps://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=24425.0

The search engine sucks. I filled the box with two businesses and it didn't find it.

Plus the thread is over 120 days old with the red warning to start a new thread anyway. 

He kind of lives for digging up duplicate threads though as well.
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Scott5114

Quote from: roadman65 on October 03, 2024, 08:36:34 AMI filled the box with two businesses and it didn't find it.

You crammed into our search box not just one, but two entire businesses?

Geez.
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Max Rockatansky

The thread I started that I always have a hard time finding via search is one about road photos of stuff not on GSV.  But then again, I always do end up finding it somehow. 

mrsman

In my area there are two Seven-Eleven stores that are within blocks of each other, about 1/4 mile difference.  They are on different streets, but that's still very close.

WillWeaverRVA

Mysteriously, there are two Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers locations about 300 feet apart in Midlothian, VA. The one on the western side of Mall Drive is the original location, the one on the eastern side was built in 2021. Both of them are in operation, and neither one is closing any time soon.
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MATraveler128

The Target in Woburn, MA has a Starbucks in it with a standalone Starbucks in the same plaza. Also in Revere, MA, there is a Dunkin Donuts across the street from another one.
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gonealookin

There are several mentions of Motel 6 in that other thread.  One I didn't see mentioned was Tigard, Oregon, where there are two Motel 6s directly across the street from each other, at 17950 and 17959 SW McEwan Road.



Looking at it on Google Street View, you can see that the one on the southeast side of the street is one of those old-style Motel 6s built in the late 1960s or early 1970s with that classic cheap 2-story design with exterior corridors.  The one on the northwest side is 3-story with interior corridors, and must have originally been branded something else before it became a Motel 6.

They don't appear to be a single merged business, because if I wanted to stay tonight, I see a lowest rate of $53.99 for the southeast one and $63.99 for the northwest one.  I wonder what percentage of the time the check-in clerk has to say, "Oh, your reservation is at the motel across the street."

epzik8

Quote from: mrsman on October 10, 2024, 12:35:35 PMIn my area there are two Seven-Eleven stores that are within blocks of each other, about 1/4 mile difference.  They are on different streets, but that's still very close.

There are two in my neck of the woods on the same street in the same town, but one has a liquor license whereas the other does not.
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With truck stops, you'd think they'd be more common to avoid truck crossovers. More often, though, a competitor will set up shop on the opposite side first.

CoreySamson

I was pretty mystified on a recent road trip when I encountered what looks like three Citgo gas stations all right next to each other on the same side of the street near Amite City, LA:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vGfWvjX6vJvZD4Nw6

And if you go further down the road, there's also two Citgos across the street from each other:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/uSeoAJDHhzCSfC3s6

The entire situation strikes me as odd. Are the three Citgo's all associated with the same business, or are the three casino/gas stations owned by different entities? I'm guessing that there are some kind of legal shenanigans happening here, but given that I am not an expert on casino regulations in Louisiana, I'll leave that for someone else to figure out.
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