45 points

There’s a psychic/tarot reader on the highway near me that’s been around as long as I can remember, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a car parked out front.

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29 points

No no that’s a failed cult. Quite different.

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15 points

A failed cult would actually fail at some point, as in run out of money and lose the property.

These guys? Nope. I’m not sure a nuclear holocaust would uproot them at this point.

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22 points

It’s pretty clever if it is a money laundering front actually because a “business” like that doesn’t really do anything that generates much paperwork and can claim it charged imaginary customers any amount it wants without having to justify it.

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businesses that only accept cash are a telltale sign of laundering.

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8 points

Not necessarily. They could just be declaring 1/2 transactions or something. Which would just be a form of tax evasion I think ?

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We have a local chain of antique shops, very high-end

Never see anyone come or go

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We’re lousy with antique shops here, but there is this one that is only open two days a week, for a few hours. They just sell thrift store quality junk and discounted (new) disposable kitchenware. They start cleaning 30 minutes before “closing time” and don’t let you in the store.

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20 points

There is a possibility that all of their real business is online and they just keep the storefront open with the crap stuff so they can claim to be a brick and mortar store.

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Unless they’re a distributor or operating under a different name online I can’t seem to find anything

Their 3 separate ornate stores in a town with a population less than 20k do not direct anyone online

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12 points

The auction centre every time they sell art (or whatever some of that stuff is supposed to be).

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106 points

The “Water and Donut Store” where they get mad if you ask for donuts, say it’s not the right time of day for donuts (all times of day/night are the wrong time, but there are always three or four stale, lonely donuts in the large glass donut cases) and have a station where you may, for a small fee, fill your water jugs with minimally filtered tap water. 🤨

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92 points

say it’s not the right time of day for donuts

This feels like it’s taken right out of a video game.

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