{"id":313,"date":"2015-02-10T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=313"},"modified":"2015-02-09T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T05:08:57","slug":"thinking-outside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Outside The Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some retailers who literally thought &#8220;outside of the box&#8221; when they designed the buildings to sell their wares. \u00a0Their building is literally shaped like what they sell:<\/p>\n<p>The Longaberger Company, sells handcrafted maple baskets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_640x430\/public\/longaberger_12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twistee Treat Ice Cream. \u00a0How could you drive past this?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/twistee-treat.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Hood (In Boston, sells dairy products.)<\/p>\n<p>)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/hood.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>United Equipment Company. \u00a0Can you imagine in the future when the building is demolished and they have to bulldoze it?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/united-hq.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Financial Center. \u00a0Not many under the age of 40 would recognize this as &#8220;The Punchcard Building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/punchcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure somewhere there&#8217;s an sex toy store that qualifies, but I couldn&#8217;t find any photos of one.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a few more of them <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/26391\/10-buildings-shaped-what-they-sell\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some retailers who literally thought &#8220;outside of the box&#8221; when they designed the buildings to sell their wares. \u00a0Their building is literally shaped like what they sell: The Longaberger Company, sells handcrafted maple baskets. Twistee Treat Ice Cream. \u00a0How could you drive past this? The Hood (In Boston, sells dairy products.) ) United Equipment <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=313\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies","category-retail-humor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}