Travelling throughout the state of New Mexico, one will notice the presence of a regional convenience store chain, Allsup’s. They’re in every city, town, and scattered collection of mobile homes in the state, from Farmington to Carlsbad. There’s even a few in farm towns just over the state line in Texas.
However, there aren’t any in Las Cruces, a boomtown at the far south central end of the state.
Any reason why this most New Mexican of chains lacks a presence in the state’s second largest city?
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They make it farther into Texas than the state line. I know of a couple in the DFW area, one in particular in Lake Dallas (between Denton and Lewisville.) There is an Allsups in pretty much every town from Dumas to Decatur along US 287.
And BTW I saw your collection of Excessive Signage in the pic link you posted in IDBB’s boob thread…She’s down in the DFW area, I’m in the Amarillo area and recognized the places you shot. Also, another photographer in that gallery had some shots of the “unusual street signs” in Amarillo. That is another story I can tell if you are interested.
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Because Las Cruces is such a business friendly town,
They like to claim that they have blah blah new busuness open
per year, however it is usually at the expense of 2X blah blah
businesses. It is also the only place I have ever been that does
not have a Dunkin Donuts. I haven’t drank coffee in a year and
a half since I’m too lazy to put my own cream and sugar in.
I don’t think there are any here, but maybe I just haven’t been paying attention.
Is that the same family as Tommy Allsup, rock guitarist of a few years ago?
I would guess it’s because there are damn Pic Quik convenience stores all over the place in Las Cruces and they have some sort of monopoly over the convenience store business. Alsups has the best deep-fried, stale-ass, only-eat-em-when-you’re-drunk burritos on the planet, and I was kinda upset to see that there were no Alsups stores in LC.