[lbo-talk] RE: competitive shopping, or perils of deflation

npchilds at shaw.ca npchilds at shaw.ca
Fri Dec 19 15:01:30 PST 2003



>Wall Street Journal - December 19, 2003


>Crazed Consumers
>Shop 'Til They Drop --


>a throng of shoppers the day after Thanksgiving.
>She says the shoppers nearby yelled, "Just go
>with it! Don't fight it!"


>they found the shopper unconscious and sprawled on
>the floor with a DVD player resting under her left arm.


>When the store opened, a door hinge snapped under the pull of an
>excited shopper who should have been pushing.


>Officers found a female customer conked on the
>head by a flying DVD player, apparently tossed by a customer.

and so on.

Y'know I used to think 'Brazil' was a brilliant satire of the state under Thatcher, now I think Gilliam was just being prescient about life in modern 'Murrica.

PC

N P Childs

'I'm Mister Bad Example, the stranger in the dirt, I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt'.

-Mr. Bad Example, W Zevon



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