I've noticed the nice beige and green building going up in front of the Felini Kroger's on Broadway and wondered if it was a Starbuck's. I asked a Kroger worker about it and she said she'd heard it was a check advance place.

So, I did a count, in the small shopping center there are 2 signature loan places, another payday advance, a pawn shop and a tax service that does the infamous refund anticipation loans.

Two of the former downtown signature loan businesses have moved near Felini. Years ago I patronized them some. When a few locate together they swap lists and if you get a loan from one then you will soon get special offers from the one next door. They can actually provide a service, if you need a few hundred bucks and can't get it from somehwere else. But after a while it seems almost always that one emergency passes and then the loan itself is an emergency. Its funny that after these places told me what a horrible person I was for not paying on time I still get weekly offers in the mail telling me they want to help their great customers.

Its a likely scenario that someone could need a few extra bucks for Krogers or to pay off a late pawn loan and wind up having four or five loans out of one shopping center. Some states have cracked down on these places. I think most efforts to do that in Tn. have been stopped.