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>Maybe they can barely keep up with demand, I don't know.

Definitely not that one. The Spectacles store on the Venice Beach boardwalk is always a desolate wasteland.




I hadn't been to the Venice boardwalk in quite some time, and I didn't even know that Snap had opened up a Spectacles store there, but when I went last month I was surprised to see that on a beautiful Saturday afternoon the only store in the entire mile plus long stretch that was completely empty aside from employees was the Spectacles store.

It was actually kind of disconcerting. For anyone not familiar with the Venice boardwalk, it is jam packed with stores selling overpriced food/drinks and kitschy tourist stuff. Most of the stores are small, packed with merchandise, and overflowing with people. The Spectacles store is probably one of the larger ones square footage wise, and has very prominent frontage. I've been in the area a few times over the last month and it has always been either completely empty, or almost completely empty.




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