Cellophane Square's last gasp
Jun. 12th, 2009 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersSo I stopped by Cellophane Square on my lunchbreak today. I picked up used DVDs of Jean Cocteau's The Blood of the Poet (Le sang d'un poète, 1930) and John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Both were tagged $12.99. "I know for a fact that that's mistagged and should be $6.99," the guy behind the register said about Big Trouble. Well, gosh. Mille grazie!
That was after I'd said, "I've heard a rumor ... "
"That we're going out of business?" he said.
It's true. June 27th is their last day of business. He said, "Those of us who've been working here for years have seen a slow decline in sales that's typical for the whole industry, which is going down the tubes because of downloading. But in this economy ... Since January the decline has been precipitous."
They don't have a blow out sale going yet, but I would assume that they'll do it in the last week.
That was after I'd said, "I've heard a rumor ... "
"That we're going out of business?" he said.
It's true. June 27th is their last day of business. He said, "Those of us who've been working here for years have seen a slow decline in sales that's typical for the whole industry, which is going down the tubes because of downloading. But in this economy ... Since January the decline has been precipitous."
They don't have a blow out sale going yet, but I would assume that they'll do it in the last week.
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Date: 2009-06-13 01:37 pm (UTC)