roseyviolet (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} roseyv) wrote,@ 2009-12-21 17:08:00 |
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So, the other day I wasted several hours on a trip to KMart to pick up a few last-minute Christmas-themed items. I looked high and low, knowing that when I was there the last time, the "seasonal" aisle was right there ... no, there, -- no no, right there, see? Behind the Valentines Day stu ?? --
Okay, you know what? If I hear one major retailer bitching and moaning about how they lost money this Christmas season, I am gonna make it my duty to punch him or her in the neck at my earliest convenience, because I don't know what anyone else's experience has been, but shopping this year has been a fucking nightmare. I mean, okay, so, you don't expect people to spend like they have in years past? Okay. So you can't be bothered to stock basic holiday items because you're afraid they might not sell? Well, you know the business better than I. You want to start clearing the Christmas stuff out three weeks after Thanksgiving to make room for the St. Patrick's Day crap? Your call. And you only want to stock four of each item you do carry, at the height of the holiday shopping season? Fine and dandy. But if you then have the audacity to kvetch because you needed to sell at least twenty of them to break even, you can go piss up a rope.
Oh, and by the way, no. You are mistaken if you think that if I can't find it in the store at Macy's, why then, I'll just go buy it at the same price from macys.com! I shop in brick-and-mortar department stores (on the rare occasions when I do) because (a) I'm looking for something I wouldn't normally buy online and/or (b) I'm not crazy about contributing to a phenomenon that puts your sales people out of work. So, just FYI, if I can't find it at Macys, I'll order it off ebay for forty percent less, or from overstock.com for thirty-five percent less and free shipping.
Also? I don't think I'm in some tiny, voiceless minority on that one. So you may wanna mull that between now and next November.
Kthx!
Okay, you know what? If I hear one major retailer bitching and moaning about how they lost money this Christmas season, I am gonna make it my duty to punch him or her in the neck at my earliest convenience, because I don't know what anyone else's experience has been, but shopping this year has been a fucking nightmare. I mean, okay, so, you don't expect people to spend like they have in years past? Okay. So you can't be bothered to stock basic holiday items because you're afraid they might not sell? Well, you know the business better than I. You want to start clearing the Christmas stuff out three weeks after Thanksgiving to make room for the St. Patrick's Day crap? Your call. And you only want to stock four of each item you do carry, at the height of the holiday shopping season? Fine and dandy. But if you then have the audacity to kvetch because you needed to sell at least twenty of them to break even, you can go piss up a rope.
Oh, and by the way, no. You are mistaken if you think that if I can't find it in the store at Macy's, why then, I'll just go buy it at the same price from macys.com! I shop in brick-and-mortar department stores (on the rare occasions when I do) because (a) I'm looking for something I wouldn't normally buy online and/or (b) I'm not crazy about contributing to a phenomenon that puts your sales people out of work. So, just FYI, if I can't find it at Macys, I'll order it off ebay for forty percent less, or from overstock.com for thirty-five percent less and free shipping.
Also? I don't think I'm in some tiny, voiceless minority on that one. So you may wanna mull that between now and next November.
Kthx!
