Somebody up there

[randy_byers]

So I've been posting a lot of movie reviews lately, but there's more to life than that. There's also blind chance.

Yesterday I girded my loins to go to the mall to buy some shirts for work. I needed three shirts to fill the hole in my rotation of work shirts. What the hell, I found four shirts at Macy's that I liked, so I took them all to the cash register, feeling accomplished.

"Did you know there's a buy-one-get-one-free sale on?" the sales clerk asked.

"Uh, no," I confessed. "I'm such a crappy shopper that if I hit a sale, it's by dumb luck."

She laughed. "The sale was actually last weekend, but apparently they didn't take it off. Lucky you. You get two free shirts."

Awesome! What did I do to deserve that? Or is this just something Macy's does to make you feel like you got a good deal and to keep you coming back? Well, it works for me. Positively Pavlovian!

Comments

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool! I recently saw something about Macy's heading into bankruptcy, so maybe it is some desperate experiment :)

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I did wonder if it had something to do with the New Depression, one way or the other.

[kim-huett.livejournal.com]

I'm betting this is a department chain which has discovered that the large quantities of mid-priced clothes it purchased way back when are moving far more slowly than expected. As time goes on it becomes more and more important to shift stock and make some, any, money. In other words Macy's is probably having serious cash-flow problems which in turn could quite easily turn into bankrupcy and as you suggest this will be the result of your depression. I'd get ready for some sales if I were you.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

"My nation had a New Depression, and all I got was this lousy shirt."

[kim-huett.livejournal.com]

If it's that bad you should be able to get more than a lousy shirt. Add lousy pants, lousy blue-ray, lousy car, lousy house to that list.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I was laughing at the local National Public Radio station doing fund-raising this morning with this pitch, "If you've appreciated our coverage of the financial crisis in the past year, please pledge some money to us now." Right, mate, I'll take out a loan for that. Although to be honest they've cut their pledge drive in half this time, which I'm sure is because they know the reality they're facing.