Within the 1991 Simpsons episode “When Flanders Failed,” Ned Flanders opened his well-known Leftorium, a mall retailer that catered to the left-handed residents of Springfield. The enterprise had a rocky opening, however Flanders saved the Leftorium open all the way in which till Season 29’s “Left Behind” in 2018, when he shuttered it for good as a consequence of on-line competitors.
Which, actually, is kinda the place the real-world marketplace for left-handed items is correct now. As a result of hilariously, there are a variety of on-line shops that cater to the southpaws amongst us. They embrace…
The Left Handed Retailer
The Left Handed Retailer has left-handed objects like kitchen utensils and college provides, however in addition they have a ton of apparel celebrating left-handedness in addition to a ton of merchandise labeled “southpaw.” In truth, they’ve an entire historical past of the time period on their web site.
Hidari
Hidari is a Japanese firm specializing in typical left-handed objects (e.g., the aforementioned kitchen utensils and artwork merchandise), however in a way more high-end means. Hey, lefties may be fancy too.
Lefty’s: The Left Hand Retailer
Lefty’s is the web retailer for Lefty’s San Francisco: The Left Hand Retailer, situated on Pier 39 in San Francisco. It initially opened in 1978, then closed a decade later. In 2008, it reopened in the identical location and has been going sturdy ever since. Whereas the primary two websites above may be known as on-line variations of Flanders’ Leftorium, since Lefty’s predated the Leftorium by greater than a decade, it’s in all probability honest to say Flanders was following in Lefty’s footsteps, not the opposite means round.
Something Left Handed
Much more spectacular than Lefty’s is Something Left Handed within the U.Ok. They started promoting left-handed objects in 1967 because the world’s first ever left-handed retailer, they usually’re nonetheless in enterprise greater than a half-century later.
It makes you marvel although: If this retailer can final almost 60 years, what precisely was Flanders doing incorrect? Perhaps he simply wasn’t neighborly sufficient, in any case.
