How does jungle jim's make money?

[Insomniator]

Just saw it on modern marvels... 300k sq ft grocery store with its own 17k foot machine shop and team of carpenters just to build props and landmarks to put throughout the store. Oh, they also have a monorail to bring customers around the parking lot. I mean I guess they get a lot of customers... but how the hell can they afford a giant machine shop just to build crap that shows customers where they are in the store??

They must sell A LOT of food...

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I came in here expecting an illiterate inquiry into the profit motive of jungle gyms. After the first reading, I thought I had found it.

 

[coxmaster]

I came in here expecting an illiterate inquiry into the profit motive of jungle gyms.

You sir are not alone

 

[spaceman]

insomiminator 4 elite!

 

[Howard]

Machine shops are just capital + operating expenses... I'm sure they did the math.

 

[ahenkel]

They get over 50,000 customers a week from all over. I don't think people go there when they need milk and eggs.

 

[Insomniator]

They also have giant fish tanks kept at specific temps for each type of fish they sell.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

They need do way instane geodesic dome!

 

[ahenkel]

They need do way instane geodesic dome!

my parents almost built a geodesic dome home

 

[Dr. Zaus]

my parents almost built a geodesic dome home

There is SOO much more room inside of them than you expect!

My father in law has one in las-curses, it is amazing how big the place is and how epic the open spaces are.

 

[Howard]

There is SOO much more room inside of them than you expect!

My father in law has one in las-curses, it is amazing how big the place is and how epic the open spaces are.

WTF is las-curses?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

las-curses

Highly appropriate.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

my dyslexic retard way of spelling las-cruces; what with it being the suck.


edit:

have you been there? Ok.. there are random Fucking sand storms!

It's like... Oh nice day, only 80 and I need a sweater and next thing you know BAM you'd better be dressed up like a tusken raider!

Great thing about the dome house (or DOOM house as I call it) is that the wind went around the house, making it so that you didn't even know a death-storm was going on...

Bad thing is you would open the door and BAM sand blasted in the face.

 

[Sasiki]

I look at a lot of businesses and wonder how they keep the doors open.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

have you been there? Ok.. there are random Fucking sand storms!

It's like... Oh nice day, only 80 and I need a sweater and next thing you know BAM you'd better be dressed up like a tusken raider!

Great thing about the dome house (or DOOM house as I call it) is that the wind went around the house, making it so that you didn't even know a death-storm was going on...

Bad thing is you would open the door and BAM sand blasted in the face.

tbh I've only driven through it, with my parents en route to grannie and granddaddy's in Texas. It looks like a dump from the view of I-10, and their bathrooms are consistently filthy and filled with creepy middle ages guys. Only once have I witnessed a sand storm, and it was the most badass moment of my already-esteemed existence.

 

[AdamK47]

Just saw this on the History Channel. I didn't even know they shot a Modern Marvels episode with the store in it until a saw the episode a few minutes ago. I was just there today getting lunch.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

go to jungle jims some day and you will understand. even the bathroom is epic.

 

[CPA]

I've never even heard of this place, but man I would love to check it out.

 

[Pheran]

Jungle Jim's is awesome, it is located near my hometown and we travel there every summer to buy a few cases of wine. Their wine selection is amazing - just that section is the size of a small supermarket. They also have a huge cheese section with this giant 750-pound thing of cheese hanging in the middle (bulk cheese online?)

I don't believe the monorail actually works though, they had plans for that at one time but I guess it turned out to be too expensive. Now it's just decorative.

 

[trmiv]

Wow, that place looks awesome! Damn I wish we had a grocery store like that around here.

 

[AdamK47]

Jungle Jim's is awesome, it is located near my hometown and we travel there every summer to buy a few cases of wine. Their wine selection is amazing - just that section is the size of a small supermarket. They also have a huge cheese section with this giant 750-pound thing of cheese hanging in the middle (bulk cheese online?)

I don't believe the monorail actually works though, they had plans for that at one time but I guess it turned out to be too expensive. Now it's just decorative.

Yeah, the Modern Marvels episode says the monorail takes people from one end of the store to the other, but I've never seen it running. I think they got it going just for that episode.

 

[RKS]

The store is amazing. I think they are actually opening another store on the other side of Cincinnati.

fresh seafood
exotic cuts of meat
lotsa wine and beer
humidor
ethnic sections
cooking classes

 

[Schadenfroh]

I am disappointed, I thought we were going to discuss the fiscal responsibility of playgrounds.

 

[bignateyk]

Damn, this place looks sweet

 

[Freejack2]

Jungle Jims does attract people from all over. When we drive out to see the in-laws you can bet we stop at Jungle Jims. It's the ultimate grocery store. You'd be hard pressed to find something they don't stock.