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Profitting By The Misfortune Of Others
09/06/2002 - 2:35 p.m.
Gadzooks. I just came back from the Ames "We're Going Out Of Business In A Month So Hurry Up And Get This Schmuh Out Of Here Now" Sale, and what a freakish nightmare it was.
For those of you who don't know, Ames is a discount department store, like Kmart or a down-market Target. And it's going out of business. Not just closing a few stores, like Kmart.* The whole chain. Bye, Ames.
* Are thay called Big Kmart now? I can't figure that one out.
But man oh Manischewitz, you'd think they were giving stuff away, rather than selling it for between 10 and 30 % off.
There are shelves that are completely empty, and people wandering around with shopping carts chock full of stuff. Stuff that, from the looks of it, mostly falls into the "I don't know what I'll do it with it but what a bargain it was" category.
I was there looking to see if they have the same model air purifier I already have, cuz now I need another one because of my afore-mentioned allergies to dust, and I have one in my living room and I need one for my bedroom now too. Anyway, they didn't. And although they had some low prices on the air purifiers they did have, I do not want to have two different models so that I have to worry about buying different filters and such like. I saw what they went through on Apollo 13 when they had incompatible filters, and I am not risking that happening to me no sir no way!
I ended up buying a new shower curtain liner, a composition book to keep notes about the songs I'm working on, and a little light that plugs into my car's cigarette lighter. I guess I could have gotten more stuff, but I found the whole experience kinda depressing. This whole chain of stores, which was once someone's dream, is about to die. A whole bunch of people are about to be out of work. It was really kinda sad. Made me think very deeply about the state of our economy.
Until I got up to the counter and found out that my cigarette-lighter-light only cost $5.50, and it normally would have been $7!
Then I did a little dance!
Music to dance on the grave of commerce by:
Foetus - "Clothes Hoist" (Hole)
"I like the way you fill out your clothes -
I want to stick-a my head under your hose!"
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