What a sign of the times in moribund Montgomery County, when a restaurant space can't be filled by a new dining option. Instead, a
tire store will take over the former zpizza space at 815 Ellsworth Drive.
Roll by Goodyear has been popping up in the unlikeliest of places countywide, capitalizing on a growing need for tire repairs caused by poor County road conditions, and an increasingly-alarming number of vacant spaces that can't find new tenants.
What is wrong with a tire shop? Clearly it is more of a necessity that another eatery.
ReplyDelete9:29: Definitely a necessity with the poor maintenance of county roads. Haven't seen a tire shop take over a restaurant-ready space before, though...
DeleteI don't care about Goodyear as I Uber/Metro/walk, but this dumb blog makes me want to go buy tires just to help the retailer succeed. Why do you try and twist all these new openings into a negative? What a shit life you must have to be such a crank.
ReplyDelete9:37: Better question: Why do you try and twist all of the crimes, corruption and incompetence of our elected officials into a relentless positive?
DeleteBetter question yet moron: Why do you Dyer make crap up all the time. Where is your evidence of incompetence, crimes and corruption eh?
DeleteThe evidence? The evidence you ask?
DeleteIt is all right there in his statements because he said so. It is true because he says it is true.
Selfishly, I'd rather have a pizza place over a tire shop. More pies, less tires!
ReplyDeleteGoodyear Rolls Out A New Retail Concept Geared To Women And Millennials
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When you run a legacy business like 120-year-old Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, you can either wait to be disrupted, or you can disrupt yourself. Goodyear has chosen the latter.
This week, the company introduced Roll by Goodyear, a pilot retail concept for tire sales and installation that is almost unrecognizable as a tire store. With its small size, bright canary-and-blue color palette and conspicuous lack of tire-installation bays (the messy business of installation occurs off premise), Roll could be mistaken for a pop-up gallery, an e-commerce brand showroom or even a yogurt shop. Goodyear is rolling out four of these concept stores in Maryland (greater Washington, D.C. metro area) as the first phase of a pilot program. The company plans to open additional markets in late 2018 and early 2019.
Interior of Roll by Goodyear store. Photo courtesy of Goodyear
Interior of Roll by Goodyear store. Photo courtesy of Goodyear
An experienced retailer, Goodyear already operates about 600 tire and auto service center outlets under the Goodyear and Just Tires brand names. With Roll, Goodyear focused on designing convenience and delight into an unloved errand: the purchase and installation of new tires. The concept includes the ability to buy and install new tires without ever leaving home or office. Company executives say the new concept has been well received by women and Millennials, two demographics that represent growth markets for the business.
“In our (traditional tire) stores we skew slightly older and slightly male, and we are missing Millennials and women,” says Fred Thomas, vice president and general manager of retail for Goodyear. “We tested the Roll concept and it scored extremely high with all demographics, and in particular with Millennial women.”
So what’s different about Roll? In a word, everything. First, its retail locations: Roll stores are adjacent to lifestyle shopping centers and destinations instead of the more traditional, industrial corridors in which you might expect to find tire stores. The idea is that customers can drop off their cars and spend time shopping, working out or dining while their tires are installed.
Never heard such a pile of BS in life, so this is their spin on buying a freaking tire lol good luck with this BS. Go out to dinner lol lol its downtown Silver Spring, Chipotle? they make it seem so glamorous. K=Give me a break what BS.
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