Chain closure
Hard to decipher the retail sales industry. If I’d been willing to shop in a store that had high prices and chronic lack of inventory, I could have saved those 17,000 jobs at Target! Not a good week for the mall rats. Three major chains announce their intent to close out in Canada, and we’re not Friday yet. Anchor stores, with better than 100 people on payroll. Sadly, once those jobs are gone, there may not be anything to replace them.
I’m under pressure to try a different coffee merchant. As in, “it might taste better” at a new address. From where I sit, beans (from one part of the globe) don’t vary much, particularly when the different boutiques all purchase from the same wholesaler. All I gain by driving down the hill instead of up is a chance of getting lost in the wilderness. Today, I didn’t; soon, we’ll have to shop from a whole different branch on the big coffee tree.
I was asked to recommend some music (on FB) and lapsed into evangelical mode. Asking me for suggestions is fraught with danger; my tastes are eclectic, and I want “you” to learn that there is a world beyond the video channel Top Twenty. I only had to offer five titles; I could have offered a hundred times that number without getting short of breath. So many songs, so little time.
Google Glass is evolving. The device (so maligned by those that don’t own one) is going to tone it down. Try to attract a few more people to the fold. I’d like to have one, but that’s just the novelty afficionado in me.
