Ads for establishments not in your area

I don't know about you guys, but I certainly am tired of seeing commercials for places that are nowhere near me. Why air these ads in markets that are not served by these places? This has bothered me to no end.

The following is a list of commercials for places that air here but are not in my hometown (NYC):

- Sonic (these commercials are so stupid, I would boycott this place because of them)

- Golden Corral

- Wal-Mart (yes it's true; NYC has everything EXCEPT a Wal-Mart...go figure)

- Red Robin

- Dairy Queen

What about you guys? What ads do you see for places that aren't near you?

Oh yeah. Add Denny's to my list.

*Red Lobster - never actually seen a red lobster in the Bay Area.
*Golden Corral - The nearest Golden Corral is in a town called Tracy. Which is miles from where I live.
*Red Robin
*Sonic
*Olive Garden

Carl's Jr.

These usually show up on Cable channels for me, I don't think I ever saw them on a cable channel.
But the ones for me are:
-Dave and Busters
-Red Robin
-Jack in the Box

None of these 3 are even in the same state as me! I think these 3 are notorious for running ads for their places despite a pretty limited national presence.

Probably ad space sold at the network instead of local level.  Then again, it might be subliminal advertising, so that when you go traveling to another area of the country you'll think "Ohh! I remember an ad for that place. Maybe I'll try it."  Sneaky bastards, aren't they...?

Grrrrrr I hate this too, they advertise these great specials and meals and get your mouth watering and there is not one to be found:

Hardee's

I don't see much  commercials from them, but they don't even exist on the NE Coast such as New England, New York, New Jersey, and both the Cleveland and Philadelphia Regions.

Pep Boys

I see the commercials...but where the hell is a Pep Boys in my area?

I constantly see ads for A&W restaurants (the one where the guy steals the other guy's food especially pisses me off). We used to have one in the next town, but that closed almost ten years ago. Now the closest one is in Tennessee (and I'm in Colorado).

Oh, I know exactly what you mean.

I live nowhere NEAR a Dunkin' Donuts, yet they keep telling me how much better they are than Starbucks, which is basically what everyone loves around here. xD

And same with Golden Corral. I have no idea where those are.

Originally posted by TheDude22 *Red Lobster - never actually seen a red lobster in the Bay Area. *Golden Corral - The nearest Golden Corral is in a town called Tracy. Which is miles from where I live. *Red Robin *Sonic *Olive Garden

There used to be a Red Lobster in San Jose, a loooooong time ago. I left in 1979. I think is was on Meridian, forgot the cross street, in a corner shopping center. At least, I think that is what it was.

There is an Olive Garden near me, in a very small shopping center. I avoid that place like the plague during the lunch hour. They have the rudest, most self important jerks of customers I've ever almost run into, if they way they park and drive in the parking lot is any indication! I won't go there myself because of that noon crowd, even at other times of the day. They have nothing I want. And their TV ads used to be some of the most annoying eatery ads out there.

As far as ad for places you don't have near you, it is probably cheaper, when buying time on a national cable channel, to just have the ad go everywhere. They probably charge extra to delete markets from the broadcast. That is why so many (all?) of the ambulance chasing shyster class action lawyers and loan companies always have to put up those disclaimers "not an offer in some states or where prohibited". But the cheap jerks won't say what those states are! Tell me. I want to move somewhere that puts restrictions on lawyers!!! There are too many of them already.  And too many of them on TV and Cable.

For here its Kmart.  The closest one to me is about 200 miles away.