The Mug

Because MUG Inc. needed a legitimate building to conduct business in.

As a front for a whole organization's worth of legitimizing business, the Mug is a very nice building. The Chaos Coalition put a lot of funds and effort into making it a decent store, and none of it was stolen funds.

It's a multi-level department store, because all the contributors make different things. Staffing it is occasionally a challenge because the customers don't like that the array of goods is rather random. There's a lot of shouting about making a wasted trip. I say that they're the silly ones for expecting a store this random to be consistent. You go for the experience, not the items.

Also it's not like it's actually there to make money. The point is that the Mug exists, and that no criminal activity happens there, and none of the things sourced there have shady backgrounds at all.

A/N: The one time there was a robbery, no one really knew what to do about it. The buffoons who did it were obviously unaffiliated to any regular villain organization. The Coalition had to actually let the police investigate, and due to the terms of how Mug Inc operates, they couldn't even exact revenge in a roundabout way. They did blacklist the thieves from ever working as minions.

If you want to look at a nice classic 1950s department store, the Mug is the place to go. It's a big old rectangular prism, with a couple smaller ones tacked on for additions. Lots of windows, a few plain columns in places, and a very nice sign with the store name in fancy letters that were consumer tested to be appealing and easy to read.