Didn't this use to be something else?

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Before we started frequenting Panera, we frequented My Favorite Muffin & Bagel.  They had much better muffins and many more varieties of coffee as well.  Unfortunately, there was not enough business in our town to keep both of them open and Panera won out.  The building where My Favorite Muffin used to be is now a place that sells mobile phones and accessories.  There are a lot of buildings that play musical chairs in our town.  We have a bank that used to be a fast food place.  We have an insurance office that used to be a pizza place.  We have a putt putt place that used to be a department store.  We have a Chinese restaurant that used to be a Chinese restaurant (before that it was a Chinese restaurant).

This leads me to my random thought.  I wonder if there is a report somewhere that shows you the odds of succeeding in your particular business based on the type of business that was in the building before you?  I imagine that it should not be too hard to research and produce such a report and who knows, it might be just as good an indicator of success as anything else.  At least there should be a clause in your lease that shows you all the previous businesses that failed (or succeeded) at that location.

Several years ago there was this cubicle at work that was "cursed."  No matter who sat there, they were eventually fired.  There were 4 straight employees over an eighteen month period and all of them were let go for some reason.  People who were transferred to our group would refuse to sit there for fear of the curse.  One lady who sat there was an avid coffee drinker and really liked this coffee shop uptown.  But that place is now a Mexican restaurant.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon