Snow day

I visited this store on New Year's Day 2022, needing some Walmart stuff to go with whatever I had brought home with me from christmas with my family (I believe it was picture frame hanging stuff). As you can see, we had a decent bit of snow at the time (by Seattle standards), and I had decided to visit this store because Snohomish County often has interesting older buses out on show days (sadly, I didn't find any, probably because it was a holiday). This is quite an interesting area for retail -- at the time Walmart moved in, the two other tenants in its strip mall were both thrift stores, Value Village and St Vincent de Paul (which has since been replaced by a salon), which gives you an idea of the type of area this is*; across the parking lot is G Mart, which I had thought was a knockoff of H Mart but is apparently owned by them (I think it's supposed to be a lower-end version of H Mart), and across SR 99 is a QFC gas station in the parking lot of a Grocery Outlet (the actual QFC closed years ago, but the gas station is still operational somehow).

* There's nothing wrong with thrift stores, but two of them, and Walmart, and Grocery Outlet, all right next to one another? Hmm. It's also surprising that Value Village is still here, since they closed most of their Seattle-area stores a few years ago after people started to question "donating" items to a for-profit company that's a bit cagey about the money they were supposed to be giving to charity.