{"id":5422,"date":"2012-03-20T23:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T04:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2012-03-23T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T18:27:31","slug":"beniel-trading-2230-decker-boulevard-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5422","title":{"rendered":"Pick-A-Flick \/ Moovies \/ Beniel Trading, 2230 Decker Boulevard: 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1040434.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1040434_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1040435.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1040435_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1040436.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/03\/p1040436_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those storefronts and names (like <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=62\">another on Decker<\/a>) that give away nothing about what the company actually does.  The slogan <i>General Merchandise Wholesale<\/i> doesn't add much more to it.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever <i>Beniel<\/i> did, it thought it was worthwhile to locate in a retail plaza rather than an office complex somewhere, so I guess they did count on the public stopping by.<\/p>\n<p><i>High Point On Decker<\/i>, with the <i>Bi-Lo<\/i> and <i>McDonalds<\/i> is one of the more successful strips on Decker, but I know this slot has turned over a few times in recent years.  I don't recall the other tenants except that I'm pretty sure it was a computer store at one time.  I distinctly recall taking my father's printer there for warranty work, and it being a bit of a problem that I hadn't bought it there.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 23 March 2012<\/b>:  Added <i>Pick-A-Flick<\/i> &amp; <i>Moovies<\/i> to the post title based on the comments.  Also, apparently this was *<i>not<\/i>* the computer store, which was next door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those storefronts and names (like another on Decker) that give away nothing about what the company actually does. The slogan General Merchandise Wholesale doesn't add much more to it. Whatever Beniel did, it thought it was worthwhile to locate in a retail plaza rather than an office complex somewhere, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,13,92,827],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brookfield-road","tag-business","tag-decker-boulevard","tag-high-point-on-decker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","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=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}