Sign Of The Times
Orvis, midtown Manhattan.
If you have a candidate for this blog category, please send it to me. Some sort of sign in the photo is good but not necessary.
posted by The Cunning Realist at Saturday, February 14, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Orvis, midtown Manhattan.
If you have a candidate for this blog category, please send it to me. Some sort of sign in the photo is good but not necessary.
12 Comments:
"Sign sign, everywhere a sign."
imho, that picture doesn't look unique. Those not on the coasts, I suppose, this has been normal for some time. Was flicking channels, and E! had a show on Valentine gifts. They showed a $25,000 gold topped, chocolate rich sundae at a Manhattan store called Serendipity. If I were a quadrillionaire, in good times or bad, I wouldn't spend $25k on something like that. It doesn't make sense. When I hear folks spending $500 on jeans, I think my $16 jeans at Farm and Fleet is really a smart purchase. We were driving home this past week, we noticed parking lots full. They were visiting a more expensive hamburger joint and pizza place, and Ben and Jerry's. However, the strip mall itself looked bleak. I don't think random pictures of marked down stuff from who knows where of unknown quality is a sign. This might be a better picture [A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure was named World Press Photo of 2008].
I was reading an article about Dubai in the NYT's and they seem to be having a rough go of it. They were really going there for awhile in the luxury department. Most people couldn't afford 10 minutes in their hotels, let alone their man-made palm island.
PS: Frontline is going to have a program this week on, "Inside the Meltdown".
Orvis items have always been overpriced.
We live in the country so much of my wifes shopping is done online.
Everyday she gets e-mails from vendors announcing yet another markdown of alread maked down products.
Sometimes the markdowns happen within hours of their last e-mail.
We got an email from the Pottery Barn for kids catalog this weekend.
A quilt marked down from $220 to $6.99. Not that it was ever worth $220 to begin with, but still.
http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/sw4720/index.cfm?pkey=cclearance
"DANBURY -- If you have any doubts that we're in a recession, just ask the guy who sold his gold teeth Saturday.
Yes, old gold teeth were among the items people sold at the Courtyard by Marriott on Eagle Road, where 'Gold 4 Cash' representatives were doing appraisals and making payments.
http://dastinct.blogspot.com/2009/02/sign-of-times-gold-teeth-for-sale.html
24" LCD monitor for only $199.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3510476&Sku=W330-2410
The exact same monitor that I own except I paid $299 for mine a few months ago...
"Sign, sign, everywhere a sign..."
Blocking out the scenery, blocking my mind, do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?
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Yeah the recession it's kind of hard in some places.
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