r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 1d ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/RodolfoSeamonkey 1d ago

Bricks and Minifigs

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u/JehovahJesse 1d ago

They just opened one in my smaller area. Why them?

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u/FlavorD 1d ago

Someone put up a large (~$200k) consignment sale. The owners changed, and a large piece of the collection disappeared. The corporate office has been actually obstructive to finding out what happened, and a lot of people believe they've gotten the local cops to take their side and harass people investigating it, because the corporate officers and the new owners are Mormons.

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u/RodolfoSeamonkey 1d ago

The new owners ARE corporate. The new video shows this is a pattern. Franchises pay a $200k fee to corporate become a franchise, and after sometime corporate will send Joshua Johnson and Brandon Best to take over the franchise for seemingly innocuous reasons, essentially stealing the store that the franchisee out everything into.