Shopping Hell
Back from holiday shopping and as predicted it was a major Clusterf**k!
Here are the err “highlights”
1. Who plans the actual streets and traffic pattern/flow bullshit at these box store farms? The one’s here in VT were quite literally farms that were built on without so much as thought as to how shoppers would navigate between them. Oh and there should be a minimum height requirement for drivers of Suburbans. That’s right I mean you 5′0″ not-so-milf that makes her own traffic laws. Eat me.
2. Why must the buyers of the major clothing retailers all buy the same boring crap in the same boring styles and colors?
3. American Apparel, you ain’t foolin’ nobody. The vintage Penthouse magazines on display, the vacant salespeople, the lack of merchandising being “The” merchandising. Tired.
4. Kohls, Filenes, JCrew, Gap, Jock Penne. I mean P l e a s e.
5. Thank god for small local retailers that still have the “stones” to seek out the unusual, the well crafted, the cool stuff from folks that put some thought into their wares.
Watch this video of floating magnets
I likey the Church Street shopping area, Mikey. I know of where you speak. I did admit to being a card carrying shop whore…that never goes away. boo hoo…boo…hooo.
Oh no Fran, the AA store is waaaay to cool to be in the mall. It’s in the old B-side Skateshop which was perfectedly fine a half-block off the outdoor malled city blocks known as Church Street Burlington. I’m tellin’ ya it’s a real piece of work. When lots of thought goes into putting together a layout that looks like no thought was put into it, the thing just comes off as stupid and contrived.
hURRAY! HuRRAY! A local small retail shopper…there is no other way! Bevs, you crack me up! Enjoy guys! You guys have an American Apparel store up there? ha ha ha (that is how “out of the mall shopping scene I am!)
oh christ…baby, i WARNED you about the american apparel store…vacant vacant vacant land o’ cotton…and why the hell would you subject yourself to filene’s 2 days before xmas…now,come here and lay your weary head upon mama’s bossom.