The Minnesotan - store in WBL

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My mom and sister are visiting for the holiday weekend and they insisted on going to White Bear Lake for Black Friday 😠 While they were shopping I walked around by myself and stumbled into a store called The Minnesotan in downtown WBL. They have a bunch of ‘vintage’ and other over-priced apparel with young smiley folks asking to help. As soon as I saw their ‘patriotic’ stuff I quickly left the store without making a scene. But maybe I should have?!? But honestly, anyone who likes this store is so stupid and brazen, I’m confident no public reaction would’ve helped me or anyone else.

I recall hearing some grumblings about them last year somewhere, but I’m literally not on any social media and can’t find much. I know WBL had multiple strong showings for No Kings protests so kinda shocked this shithole survives today.

They have very few Yelp or other public reviews and they seem evenly split between lovers and haters.

https://theminnesotan.com/collections/patriotic

Ok after some more digging I only found a single article about this shithole and it’s from a shitty source.