I guess I've never really been into a store that was closing. I know I've seen the signs, and may have gone in at the early start of its demise. "All sales final." "Everything must go."
Well, it was a shock for me that my beloved 82nd and Foster Freddies is closing. I guess I was late on noticing too. I haven't been in, in a while.
I asked one clerk lady, "why's the store closing?" She said, "because we aren't making any money." I say, "after all these years, someone finally realized that?" I've been shopping there for 10 plus years. She said she was going to be working at Hawthorne.
What was shocking was seeing the bare shelves. It was like ransacked. It was as if a hurricane or natural disaster had come through, and all the shelves were almost empty.
What was also shocking was people were going nuts over what was left. These store closings must bring out the bargain hunters by the hundreds.
What was even more shocking was that nothing was that much cheaper. A few things, one could save a buck on. Some things were 50% off.
But seriously people! Some of these people specifically go there for the deals to buy more stupid, useless shit that they don't need because it is on "sale."
But that's America.
That how the middle and poor class only know how to do it.