On its best day, retail is about as exciting as watching beige paint dry. On its worst, it makes you want to scream in the faces of all the horrid customers that make retail about as appealing as cholera.
Now, please let me express that I am thankful to be employed in this economy when so [...]
Tag Archives: Shopping
Ennui is SO Jejune…
Adventures in Car Shopping
Making decisions on big purchases are never easy. Hell for me small purchases are not terribly easy either. I just spent the past three days agonizing over how to spend birthday money on low range headphones only after having a near nervous breakdown trying to decide on which game I wanted. No answer was forth [...]
Costco Wants You to See in HD This Holiday Season
I was at Costco today doing some shopping and came across the gem pictured above — what they were missing was a “Stop seeing your life in standard def!”
This is what happens when you give marketing people carte-blanche and they decide they are going to rape everyone that is 50 and older with a phrase/term [...]
What’s Your Return Policy?
I work retail, which most people would consider the ninth circle of hell. They all have good reason. However, I don’t mind it. I work in a nice, upscale store that caters to a specific clientele (think “wardrobe for the log cabin interior designer”) and isn’t easily affected by the upswell of holiday traffic. Plus, [...]
I Am Not Looking for the Holy Grail but Walmart Seems to Think I Am
It is a well known fact that our country is currently in dire straights economically. There are many reasons for this from unchecked corporate spending to bad tax policies but I think one reason that is overlooked is the fact that shopping is a huge pain in the ass and stores never have what you [...]
Mr. Whipple Needs to Whip Some Ass…
I was just at the grocery store at 5:30 p.m. That was my tactical error. I don’t work a traditional work week and I am not bound by the confines of a schedule that allows me only a brief “on my way home” window in which to buy groceries. I don’t know what I was [...]
Perspective, people. Perspective.
We all know that people are insane. We also know that they are stupid. But this, this is just pathetic.
A Wal-Mart temporary employee was trampled – TRAMPLED, as in KILLED – by people who BROKE DOWN THE DOORS minutes before the 5am Black Friday opening. He was only 34.
From the International Herald Tribune:
At 4:55 a.m., [...]
Black Celebration…
It was bound to happen eventually. In fact, I have been predicting it for years. Someone got trampled to death in a Wal-mart on Black Friday. I hope Wal-mart is nailed to the fucking cross for this. Merry Christmas.
Of course, I must count myself as part of the problem since my crazy ass was in [...]
Let's All Pray for the Stupid People…
Seriously. Why is there so much of it in the world? Isn’t there a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of stupidity?
I have been looking forward to a specific rummage sale for several weeks now. I had my strategy in place, my stockpile of cash, I was SET to do a little transacting. The rummage [...]
YARD SALE!!!
Yard selling is my crack.
I spend every weekend morning hunting and rummaging for the lost works of Rembrandt and any other amazing treasure that I can get my hands on. It is a passion that burns with an unquenchable intensity, and I stoke the fires regularly.
That being said, nothing pisses me off more than bad [...]
Amazon Launches Checkout Online Payment Service
In a move that rivals online payment leader PayPal and sidels up next to (and possible out-runs at launch) Google Checkout, Amazon has announced the launch of their new online payment system aptly named: Amazon Checkout.
The kicker that makes this service have longer legs out of the gate than Google’s offering is that every single [...]
New Credit Card Cross-Sell-Like Scams Used by Vendors
12 Angry Men did an awesome write-up on a new type of “scam” used by shady marketing companies to automatically opt-you-in to very small month reoccurring charges that you are most likely to not notice on your credit card using some trickery of how credit card data is handled in a typical HTTP session. Here [...]
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