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**The Reaper** · 12-15-2014, 13:17

I would invite anyone who thinks this will turn out well to visit any of the shopettes on Ft. Bragg and see the piss poor traffic flow, bad positioning of the too small underground storage tanks (several tanks will usually be empty, some have to be refilled three or more times daily), lack of outdoor service (requiring those paying for gas to get in line inside with everyone else), weak selection and stock of alcohol, limited numbers of cashiers, particularly during rush times, and totally inadequate parking. The North Post facility is probably the finest example of the monumental ineptitude. Imagine a 7-11 with a liquor store inside and a BK attached, with seven parking spaces, two incompetent and surly cashiers, and no unrestricted access from multiple convening highways.

We don't even need to get into the brilliant concept of integrating a liquor store into a gas station with a convenience store and a Burger King.

Go to lunch, gas up, and get a bottle of booze before returning to work.

As soon as AAFES touches a venue, it immediately gets inefficient, less customer friendly, and expensive. Can't want till they take over the commissaries. I bet they are already drawing up plans for that one.

Genius.

TR

12-15-2014, 13:17	#10
The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,829	I would invite anyone who thinks this will turn out well to visit any of the shopettes on Ft. Bragg and see the piss poor traffic flow, bad positioning of the too small underground storage tanks (several tanks will usually be empty, some have to be refilled three or more times daily), lack of outdoor service (requiring those paying for gas to get in line inside with everyone else), weak selection and stock of alcohol, limited numbers of cashiers, particularly during rush times, and totally inadequate parking. The North Post facility is probably the finest example of the monumental ineptitude. Imagine a 7-11 with a liquor store inside and a BK attached, with seven parking spaces, two incompetent and surly cashiers, and no unrestricted access from multiple convening highways. We don't even need to get into the brilliant concept of integrating a liquor store into a gas station with a convenience store and a Burger King. Go to lunch, gas up, and get a bottle of booze before returning to work. As soon as AAFES touches a venue, it immediately gets inefficient, less customer friendly, and expensive. Can't want till they take over the commissaries. I bet they are already drawing up plans for that one. Genius. TR __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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