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Re: Businesses that closed down in Trinidad & Tobago due to Covid-19 lockdown

Postby SuperiorMan » August 9th, 2022, 7:14 am

RedVEVO wrote:
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hover11 wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:Will Wendy's be opening back in south? Kinda miss that Wendy's.
Aren't you in Florida bro?


right now yes but I would be back soon.


You know Wendy's have 523 branches in FL. :D


I know but they don't taste like the one that was in gulf city.
Other than their salads, it tastes like garbage here.

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Postby leavingforgood » August 9th, 2022, 9:19 am

The two new roti places in Maraval closed down somewhat recently as well. One was Dhaal-icious in Ellerslie that was easily the worse buss up shot I have ever tasted in my life, and the other was The Iron Pot in Shoppes of Maraval. They both opened around the same time in 2020/2021 and closed down earlier this year.

The Iron Pot was good and their portion sizes were decent, but they were owned by Bootleggers and with Bootleggers closing down I guess many of their subsidiaries are closing down as well. Now there is nowhere to buy decent roti in Maraval...again :( .

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Postby Chimera » August 9th, 2022, 11:20 am

SuperiorMan wrote:
daring dragoon wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:
hover11 wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:Will Wendy's be opening back in south? Kinda miss that Wendy's.
Aren't you in Florida bro?


right now yes but I would be back soon.



didnt they find horse meat in the patty and beef flavor on the fries in TT branches?


wait what


in usa, mcdonalds fries has beef flavoring

not sure if thats the scene here due to our big hindu population

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Postby RedVEVO » August 9th, 2022, 11:36 am

Phone Surgeon wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:
daring dragoon wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:
hover11 wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:Will Wendy's be opening back in south? Kinda miss that Wendy's.
Aren't you in Florida bro?


right now yes but I would be back soon.



didnt they find horse meat in the patty and beef flavor on the fries in TT branches?


wait what


in usa, mcdonalds fries has beef flavoring

not sure if thats the scene here due to our big hindu population



Why Trini bush people don't forget about McDonalds - an american icon - and just eat your curry ?

Waiting for Trump to return !

Just got news .. maybe late :wink:


Zanzibar in Movie Towne closed down ,

Their beef burger was top notch :D

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Postby pugboy » September 27th, 2022, 8:19 pm

tough investment if half empty and a next mall opening down the road

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Postby Les Bain » September 28th, 2022, 8:31 am

That's clearly no competition. The "new mall" will take over and Trincity Mall will be developed into yuppie housing.

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Postby Rovin » September 28th, 2022, 11:17 am

i tort inbutt was buying it ? ...

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Postby maj. tom » September 28th, 2022, 11:28 am

maybe that model of Big Mall is truly over. A lot of once famous malls gone down, not just in Trinidad. Amazon and online changed everything and Covid proved it. All people really want these days are a safe place to conduct some business and a big food courtyard to lime. Plus the usual amenities to the community like the grocery can stay. Pennywise. Any glasses place and pharmacy should be able to hold on. Maybe sports store with big heavy equipment that ppl won't ship from online. These rest is just a bust and can't pay rent.

My guess is two big condominium towers will be built with high rents and the front half refurbished with a new image. They really gonna move out Tru-Valu and Pennywise from such a strategic location on the highway?

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Postby j.o.e » September 28th, 2022, 11:43 am

maj. tom wrote:maybe that model of Big Mall is truly over. A lot of once famous malls gone down, not just in Trinidad. Amazon and online changed everything and Covid proved it. All people really want these days are a safe place to conduct some business and a big food courtyard to lime. Plus the usual amenities to the community like the grocery can stay. Pennywise. Any glasses place and pharmacy should be able to hold on. Maybe sports store with big heavy equipment that ppl won't ship from online. These rest is just a bust and can't pay rent.

My guess is two big condominium towers will be built with high rents and the front half refurbished with a new image. They really gonna move out Tru-Valu and Pennywise from such a strategic location on the highway?

Maybe put a govt campus with ample parking and move some people out of town.

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Postby hover11 » September 28th, 2022, 11:53 am

j.o.e wrote:
maj. tom wrote:maybe that model of Big Mall is truly over. A lot of once famous malls gone down, not just in Trinidad. Amazon and online changed everything and Covid proved it. All people really want these days are a safe place to conduct some business and a big food courtyard to lime. Plus the usual amenities to the community like the grocery can stay. Pennywise. Any glasses place and pharmacy should be able to hold on. Maybe sports store with big heavy equipment that ppl won't ship from online. These rest is just a bust and can't pay rent.

My guess is two big condominium towers will be built with high rents and the front half refurbished with a new image. They really gonna move out Tru-Valu and Pennywise from such a strategic location on the highway?

Maybe put a govt campus with ample parking and move some people out of town.
Not gonna happen as that benefits the 1 percent in no form or fashion. Rich must get richer, remember?

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Postby Chimera » September 28th, 2022, 11:56 am

maj. tom wrote:maybe that model of Big Mall is truly over. A lot of once famous malls gone down, not just in Trinidad. Amazon and online changed everything and Covid proved it. All people really want these days are a safe place to conduct some business and a big food courtyard to lime. Plus the usual amenities to the community like the grocery can stay. Pennywise. Any glasses place and pharmacy should be able to hold on. Maybe sports store with big heavy equipment that ppl won't ship from online. These rest is just a bust and can't pay rent.

My guess is two big condominium towers will be built with high rents and the front half refurbished with a new image. They really gonna move out Tru-Valu and Pennywise from such a strategic location on the highway?



pennywise and xtra foods building their own plazas these days


i think that big building in aranguez by the roundabout...is xtra foods building their own plaza.....
when xtra foods leaves plenty of the traffic to grand bazaar will also leave, pennywise might follow xtra foods and rent from by them

grand bazaar might die just now

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Postby SuperiorMan » September 28th, 2022, 12:23 pm

maj. tom wrote:maybe that model of Big Mall is truly over. A lot of once famous malls gone down, not just in Trinidad. Amazon and online changed everything and Covid proved it. All people really want these days are a safe place to conduct some business and a big food courtyard to lime. Plus the usual amenities to the community like the grocery can stay. Pennywise. Any glasses place and pharmacy should be able to hold on. Maybe sports store with big heavy equipment that ppl won't ship from online. These rest is just a bust and can't pay rent.

My guess is two big condominium towers will be built with high rents and the front half refurbished with a new image. They really gonna move out Tru-Valu and Pennywise from such a strategic location on the highway?


It is over. The better investment include warehouses and fulfillment centers to cater to online businesses.

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Postby Ben_spanna » September 28th, 2022, 2:49 pm

Ent they were looking for a new housing for the displaced from the old car park in POS, this would be perfect, divide the stores into dorms and each homeless could have their own room to share, and finally get them to somewhere thats not in the middle of bussling POS.

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Postby pugboy » September 28th, 2022, 2:57 pm

correct, they only move govt employees to rented buildings from party hacks like ferris and he fadda in law

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Postby FrankChag » September 28th, 2022, 10:48 pm

j.o.e wrote:
maj. tom wrote:maybe that model of Big Mall is truly over. A lot of once famous malls gone down, not just in Trinidad. Amazon and online changed everything and Covid proved it. All people really want these days are a safe place to conduct some business and a big food courtyard to lime. Plus the usual amenities to the community like the grocery can stay. Pennywise. Any glasses place and pharmacy should be able to hold on. Maybe sports store with big heavy equipment that ppl won't ship from online. These rest is just a bust and can't pay rent.

My guess is two big condominium towers will be built with high rents and the front half refurbished with a new image. They really gonna move out Tru-Valu and Pennywise from such a strategic location on the highway?

Maybe put a govt campus with ample parking and move some people out of town.


Approved.

Important: Leave pennywise and the supermarket. Move out those small stores and expand the food court.

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Postby daring dragoon » September 29th, 2022, 1:31 am

Phone Surgeon wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:
daring dragoon wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:
hover11 wrote:
SuperiorMan wrote:Will Wendy's be opening back in south? Kinda miss that Wendy's.
Aren't you in Florida bro?


right now yes but I would be back soon.



didnt they find horse meat in the patty and beef flavor on the fries in TT branches?


wait what


in usa, mcdonalds fries has beef flavoring

not sure if thats the scene here due to our big hindu population


hindus in TT is a set of nemakaram and chamar any how. most eat pork and beef more than anyone, geera pork and stewbeef with aloo is some of their favourites. let the chamars enjoy they life.

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Postby maj. tom » September 29th, 2022, 9:13 am

There is no where that states Hindus cannot eat beef. No where! In fact in the Ramayana they ate cattle. The move to Ahimsa started around when Buddhism movement began as a branch of Hinduism. And in fact Hindus are NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT MEAT at all.

But nowhere is it any religious decree in any book forbidding cow meat. It probably became cultural taboo because at some point in their agricultural revolution cows became very valuable for their milk and other resources. A fact shown that cows became traditional valued possessions and given as gifts for weddings. On the other hand they never had any other holy claims on sheep or goat, both which are domesticated enough to give the same milk and even wool and skin and make good pets. Goat and mutton meats are extremely popular in all parts of India. They murder mob people for even suspected of eating beef. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/hindu-mob-kills-muslim-man-eating-beef


Just another point of stupid human hypocrisy regarding religion. But this is off topic so mods can move it to that appropriate thread please.

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Postby Rovin » September 29th, 2022, 11:15 am

hindus have a deep respect for cows because its a very helpful animal to them since it gives milk, gobar for plants & home construction, its d original farm pulling plow & also a means for transport long b4 cars were invented, so they rather continue d tradition of not killing & eating something that helps them especially so much in d old days & even today ... yes tom is right in that a staunch hindu does not eat any type of animal out of respect for life in general & their belief in reincarnation too

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Postby Rovin » September 29th, 2022, 11:27 am

maj. tom wrote:maybe that model of Big Mall is truly over. A lot of once famous malls gone down, not just in Trinidad. Amazon and online changed everything and Covid proved it. All people really want these days are a safe place to conduct some business and a big food courtyard to lime. Plus the usual amenities to the community like the grocery can stay. Pennywise. Any glasses place and pharmacy should be able to hold on. Maybe sports store with big heavy equipment that ppl won't ship from online. These rest is just a bust and can't pay rent.

My guess is two big condominium towers will be built with high rents and the front half refurbished with a new image. They really gonna move out Tru-Valu and Pennywise from such a strategic location on the highway?


very true , a while back i have watched some YT videos of this subject in d usa, long b4 covid once bustling huge malls were slowly dying out since amazon & other websites practically getting u d same goods to ur front door at no additional costs & convenience cant be beat for ppl who work long odd hrs coming home dog tired or late & then have to go to a store. Walmart too is another killer of other businesses & fast food delivering to ur homes decades ago too so ppl doh even have to go out for cooked food

in T&T we have a similar situation but with whatsapp being a major killer of brick\mortar stores - everybody jes wants to siddong on their ass behind a phone & want to see all what u have to sell to save from time, traffic & gas $ too & sometimes u dont even get a "ok or thanks" reply self ... alot of ppl open online stores thru social media & they & d buyer take d risk of meeting strangers all over d place to make a sale

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Postby Rovin » October 4th, 2022, 7:15 pm

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/lindas- ... zotMVHdGug

Linda's Bakery has permanently closed the doors of two of its branches.


In a post on its Facebook page Linda's stated that the City Gate and Princes Town locations closed their doors for the last time on Friday.

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Postby maj. tom » October 4th, 2022, 7:22 pm

Did this place get bought over? New renovations in progress. Also much electrical work on the outside car park, new lights and so on.

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Postby nick639v2 » October 4th, 2022, 8:43 pm

maj. tom wrote:Did this place get bought over? New renovations in progress. Also much electrical work on the outside car park, new lights and so on.

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Yup landlord sacked chin. From T he infrastructure inside its only a Cinema that could reopen in there either way

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Postby Les Bain » October 4th, 2022, 9:44 pm

I heard CC8 Trincity is moving into the former Price Plaza Movietowne.
Trincity Mall continuing to dry up, so that theory making sense. The asian goods store that was outside the former Trincity Excellent Stores is now gone, as well as Kenny's upstairs by Payless. Place feeling more and more like a Dan Bell dead mall video.

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Postby ruffneck_12 » October 7th, 2022, 3:58 pm

Caroni close down

(we can no longer fornicate in the bushes)

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Postby shaneelal » October 11th, 2022, 9:34 pm

Les Bain wrote:I heard CC8 Trincity is moving into the former Price Plaza Movietowne.
Trincity Mall continuing to dry up, so that theory making sense. The asian goods store that was outside the former Trincity Excellent Stores is now gone, as well as Kenny's upstairs by Payless. Place feeling more and more like a Dan Bell dead mall video.


CineCentral comes to Chaguanas
https://trinidadexpress.com/business/lo ... 3dd75.html

A Cineplex is returning to the Central area at a cost of $15 million, to the shopping centre of Price Plaza.
MovieTowne moved out of Price Plaza in October 2020 during the height of the pandemic, after being at the location for ten years.
Chaguanas Endeavour Holdings Ltd (EHL) which owns the Plaza, has partnered with CinemaOne Ltd (CINE1), to construct the CineCentral multiplex.
CinemaOne Ltd operates IMAX, Gemstone and 4DX theatres at One Woodbrook Place, and Gemstone Cinemas at Gulf City Mall, San Fernando.

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Postby pugboy » October 11th, 2022, 9:51 pm

seems to be the imax folks behind it

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Postby DMan7 » October 11th, 2022, 10:05 pm

So when CC8 in Trincity closing down again?

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Postby daring dragoon » October 12th, 2022, 2:42 am

move to where the money is. let the entire north east go movie town pos or come chaguanas. north east is PNM area so them aint worth having a cinema. the last cinema i went to was presidente to see superman returns in 2008 i think an was $15 a person. 85 inch tv an pirate cinema HD for me yes.

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Postby MaxPower » October 12th, 2022, 3:03 am

DMan7 wrote:So when CC8 in Trincity closing down again?


This is bad.

All the goontas gonna have no choice but to go to the west, central or south.

I think it’s best they keep to the west and leave central and south alone. These out of timing pests need to stop harassing the descent and law abiding public and their families.

Thank god for Netflix and big screen flat TVs in the comfort and safety of your home away from these kind of people.

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