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America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
Retail leasing by service-oriented tenants outpaced goods-based retail leasing for the first time ever, a reversal driven in large part by a proliferation of salons, spas and fitness studios.
Service-based tenants leased just over 50% of total retail square footage in 2025, according to data firm CoStar. Fifteen years ago, service tenants accounted for only 40% of total leasing.
Social media has spurred an increase in retailers dedicated to making Americans look good in photos, from blow-dry hair salons to waxing chains. Fitness-center openings have surged, with the sector making up nearly 30% of service-based leases last year compared with 20% in 2016, according to CoStar.
One of the fastest expanding operators nationwide is Planet Fitness, which added more than a million members last year and plans to open nearly 200 new locations in 2026.
Chief Development Officer Chip Ohlsson said people are working out more frequently and socially than in the past, with entire families or groups of co-workers often showing up to the gym together. The chain expects further tailwinds from the rise in Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications.
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Re: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
How can at least a third of Americans be fat when they have such easy access to gyms now?
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VP_Spiro_T_CheneyRe: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
Planet Fitness is the #1 hookup spot in America, for that remaining portion of the U.S. that hasn’t gone incel.
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SockpuppetRe: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
VP_Spiro_T_Cheney wrote:
Planet Fitness is the #1 hookup spot in America, for that remaining portion of the U.S. that hasn’t gone incel.
When I was at the Paddock Club at the 2022 USGP, my table mates were four dudes who owned small fiefdoms of Planet Fitness locations. They chatted about Rolexes, had their own personal in-venue driver, and flew in on race day in a helicopter.
I referred to them as the "Planet Fitness Bros."
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Re: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
The problem with gyms is they force you to leave the house or delay returning to your house, and whatever workout makes you insanely hungry afterward. Very difficult to resist fast food (or a phony version of fast food marketed as healthy) where you inhale thousands of calories before you reach your driveway.
Which gives me a business idea 
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Re: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
The primal hunger after working out is straight from caveman days where you immediately rip out & inhale the liver & kidneys of the animal you chased down for 2 days.
Set up fake-healthy-happy easy-access virtue signaling food traps in the path of gyms. Far enough away that people can exit the gym & leave in style before porking out. All to be ordered with an easy app + speedy drive thru, resistance is futile. No indoor dining room needed, no walk of shame in sweaty yoga pance.
Use the buzzwords & pretend everything on the menu is at least 40g protein power food, “salads” 
, recovery smoothies , slop bowls of Greek yogurt covered with crap that just tastes really really good.
Massive piles of greasy onion rings with a lil protein powder in the otherwise deep fried batter & lots of sea salt. With a bucket of healthie ranch made with protein.
No sodas only juice mixes with some protein added 
No white sugar/ but buckets of agave nectar & honey.
No fake sweeteners that taste terrible.
Sort of like chipotle but more pretentious about ‘Healthie Recovery Protein!’ talk, more streamlined/premade to get slop in hand faster
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Re: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
Every time a fast food place has really tried to make a healthy low cal option for dieters it fails miserably.
Doesn’t taste good enough, doesn’t satisfy.
Formula has to be a combo of high fat + high sugar + high salt to max out irresistibility, engorgement, addiction
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gyms -> get suckered into signing up through clever marketing and which most people never use - and then make it almost impossible to cancel
The promotional material convinced me I'd look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I did a couple days but have been too busy since then to go back
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Re: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
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Every time a fast food place has really tried to make a healthy low cal option for dieters it fails miserably.
Doesn’t taste good enough, doesn’t satisfy.
Formula has to be a combo of high fat + high sugar + high salt to max out irresistibility, engorgement, addiction
Spanky is the resident subject matter expert here.
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I WENT TO THE GYM LAST WEEK, WHY AM I STILL FAT?
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You mean why are you still fat AND STUPID!
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VP_Spiro_T_Cheney wrote:
Planet Fitness is the #1 hookup spot in America, for that remaining portion of the U.S. that hasn’t gone incel.
Might want to look up the definition of "hookup spot" there, Gramps. People aren't fuqing in the bathrooms, unless it's one of the gay establishments you like to patronize.
Also PF clientele tend to be the cheap and low-class people you so ardently disdain.
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HeekeeRe: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
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The primal hunger after working out is straight from caveman days where you immediately rip out & inhale the liver & kidneys of the animal you chased down for 2 days.
Set up fake-healthy-happy easy-access virtue signaling food traps in the path of gyms. Far enough away that people can exit the gym & leave in style before porking out. All to be ordered with an easy app + speedy drive thru, resistance is futile. No indoor dining room needed, no walk of shame in sweaty yoga pance.
Use the buzzwords & pretend everything on the menu is at least 40g protein power food, “salads”
Massive piles of greasy onion rings with a lil protein powder in the otherwise deep fried batter & lots of sea salt. With a bucket of healthie ranch made with protein.
No sodas only juice mixes with some protein added
No white sugar/ but buckets of agave nectar & honey.
No fake sweeteners that taste terrible.
Sort of like chipotle but more pretentious about ‘Healthie Recovery Protein!’ talk, more streamlined/premade to get slop in hand faster
gymgoys burn 500 calories at a gay ass strip mall gym that has no sauna, steam room or pool then take in 5000 calories feeding on goyslop
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Re: America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff
To be fair, a lot of those "spas" are selling handjobs. 
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