You Betcha They’re Always Side-by-Side! Menards & Culver’s

This is going to sound like I am going nuts, and maybe I've been standing too close to the microwave, but have you ever noticed that there always seems to be a Culver's within 'spittin' distance of a Menards store? It's a phenomenon that seems to be a regular thing here in the North Star State.

A Reddit post on the topic of Minnesota had this very question posted. The original poster asked if it was a known thing that Menards and Culvers go side by side in most communities.

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Has anyone noticed that in both Baxter and Elk River that there is a place with both a Culver's and a Menards with the Culvers being diagonally placed from the Menards? If I had a dime for every time that happened, I would have two dimes, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

Well, it's more than just those two communities, right here in Central Minnesota, we see a Menards across the street from a Culver's in Waite Park, down in Maple Grove, you can find the local Culver's in Menards' parking lot!

Maple Grove (below) and Waite Park (above)

Elk River (below) and Rochester (above)

Now there doesn't seem to be a hard and fast rule with this, but where there is smoke there is fire right?

But the next time you stop by your local Menards, take a look around and see if you can see the familiar blue and white of a Culver's, you might be surprised by just how close it is.

Is there any other business pairing that does this?