{"id":20695,"date":"2022-07-22T22:41:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T02:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=20695"},"modified":"2022-09-26T22:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T02:46:43","slug":"crazy-cazboys-5422-forest-drive-1-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=20695","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Cazboys, 5422 Forest Drive: 1 June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810448.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810448_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810448_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810448_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810449.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810449_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810449_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810449_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810450.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810450_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810450_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810450_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810451.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810451_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810451_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810451_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810452_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810452_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810452_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810453.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810453_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810453_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810453_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810454.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810454_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810454_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810454_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810455.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810455_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810455_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810455_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810456.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810456_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810456_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810456_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810457.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810457_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810457_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810457_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810458.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810458_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810458_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810458_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810459.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/07\/p1810459_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1810459_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1810459_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was unaware of this bin based discount operation in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=east-forest-plaza\">East Forest Plaza<\/a> until commenter Kody mentioned that it was gone.  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/columbia\/business\/overstocks-retailer-crazy-cazboys-closes-its-columbia-store-citing-fuel-costs\/article_206495cc-e27a-11ec-8ee9-2f5e41738684.html\">The Free Times<\/a> they closed due to the high cost of fuel as shipping was eating into their small margins.  I suspect there may have been more to it than that, but at any rate, they shut down at the start of June.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the same guy who started this chain started the <i>Zoe's Kitchen<\/i> chain.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Kody)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 26 September 2022<\/b> -- Now the conceptually similiar <i>Where Ya Bin<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830758.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830758_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830758_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830758_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5422+Forest+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was unaware of this bin based discount operation in East Forest Plaza until commenter Kody mentioned that it was gone. According to The Free Times they closed due to the high cost of fuel as shipping was eating into their small margins. I suspect there may have been more to it than that, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2685,1136,1743,269,96,4],"class_list":["post-20695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-5422-forest-drive","tag-discount","tag-east-forest-plaza","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}