There is a type of store where you cannot write a shopping list.

Well, you can. It just will not work.

Because the thing you bought last week might not be there this week. And the thing that is there this week might never come back.

Most retailers would call that a catastrophic failure. Consistency is the whole promise of a chain store. You walk in, the thing is where it was, you leave.

One Ohio chain built a multi-decade business on the opposite promise.

Come in. See what we got. Some of it is cheap in a way that will surprise you. No, we cannot tell you if it will be here tomorrow.

And people keep coming back specifically because of that.

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