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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
With an unexpected trip and no vacation, external storage because a necessity. This because the network infrastructure here is as modern as deerskin capes. (Though they’re working on it. ’02, here we come!)
So yesterday, I took a drive to Circuit City. I’d been there Saturday. It’s a gaping wound. Half the store is taped off, empty and cavernous. The rest is picked through, left for dead.
For those confused, Circuit City fell to interweb competition. (Best Buy, slightly larger and safe for the elderly, is still flailing.) They’ve been left to sell off all their stock. Essentially, they’re being looted while their soon-to-be-former (surprisingly jovial) employees watch.
The deals aren’t awesome (similar to interweb) but the clientele is far more entertaining. In the check-out line, the man in front of me had apparently dug through his closet for a blue/red pair of Zoobas to honor the occasion. A woman in dingy sweatpants briefly considered a $500 television.
I didn’t realize shopping at Circuit City was cost prohibitive until the barrier eroded. (I picked up a 400GB external for about $120, in-hand; not bad.) Crazy, in a way.
Thanks, capitalism, for your omnipresent brilliance. I’m almost willing to look past the skewed wealth distribution, mass destitution and prevalence of generational exploitation. Almost.