{"id":3052,"date":"2012-05-13T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:35:20","slug":"nailed-on-mt-pleasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"Nailed on Mt. Pleasant.."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were ever thinking of starting a business or starting a new business, please don’t make it a manicure, pedicure, a.k.a. spa, salon. take a look.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the headings in my photography challenge was “street.” So I walked along Mt. Pleasant early this morning and took some “street scenes.” I couldn’t help noticing, in a random shot, the number of “nail” places within a few feet (no pun intended) of each other – there are more too in other blocks on the street. Now if your business were supplying product to nail places then you may just have hit “pay dirt.” <\/div>\n
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\nIn a quick inventory of businesses on this street – which is really just 5 blocks in total –  there are probably – 50 restaurants (including several pubs), 3 genuine French bakeries within 200 feet of each other, 4-5 gourmet food stores, 10 – 15 hair salons, 5 or 6 dry cleaners, 2 large chain drug stores, 1 supermarket, 2 or 3 vintage clothing stores (there used to be 5 or 6), 2 or 3 antique stores, (there used to be 5 or 6), 5 or 6 home decor shops, 3 or 4 art galleries (there used to be 5 or 6), 3 toy stores, if you include a doll house store and a model car store – right beside each other, plus a children’s book store, a library, 1 ice cream store, 1 large candy store – just selling candy!! and 2 costume stores. Oh yes, I almost forgot – at least 10 nail salons, 2 pet stores, 2 movie theatres, 1 funeral home, 2 churches, 1 park.<\/div>\n
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\nI challenge any other street to have this type of skewed concentration in such a small space. The rest of the shops are what you may find any place else.<\/div>\n
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\nYou will note that there is no yarn store.  Infiknit is there; but we are not a store front and the closest yarn store is a half an hour’s walk away.  <\/div>\n
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\nI just decided to look at what people like to have in their neighbourhood – lots of money is spent on eating out, grooming – both people and pets – children, and entertainment.  Maybe it’s time for yarn to have a better presence, hmmmm.<\/div>\n
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\nNow who’s ready to start a new business?<\/div>\n
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\nHave a productive day!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you were ever thinking of starting a business or starting a new business, please don’t make it a manicure, pedicure, a.k.a. spa, salon. take a look. One of the headings in my photography challenge was “street.” So I walked along Mt. Pleasant early this morning and took some “street scenes.” I couldn’t help noticing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}