November 16, 2010
Let’s Play “What’s Wrong with this Business Model?”
It continued:
“How dare you? How dare you! You’ve got a lot of nerve, coming in here and buying a dozen baguettes. And that dinner last week? Screw you! Who do you think you are, spending money in here like that?
Obviously, our closing is the consumer’s fault. You decided that you didn’t want to spend money in Don Otto’s. Who are you to make a decision about your money like that? We’re Don Otto’s, be-atches! This store deserves a better class of customer. Fuck you, South End!”
Shit. Now where am I going to get my $8 carton of eggs? ShopRite only sells the $2.19 carton of eggs. I suppose I could go to Balducci’s, but they only charge $3.09. Even the organic eggs don’t break the $4 mark. I guess I can go into the Village and get some free range organic vegetarian eggs from local farms, but even factoring the gas to get there I am only paying around $5. Maybe I can convince them to sell me only a 1/2 dozen eggs at the full dozen price and make it up on percentage? I really need those $8 eggs.
Of course, the real problem is that I just didn’t “understand that my purchases make a difference, and that by buying something that wasn’t exactly what I want, it gets me closer to what I want. It’s an investment.”
Today I went shopping. I wanted a pair of pants but I bought a skirt instead. When the store does a little better I’ll get those pants. I needed a new comforter but all I saw were scratchy horse blankets. Sure, I could have gone next door to Sears, but like Don Otto’s, Petco needs loyal customers too. So instead of sleeping under a comfortable $20 Sears comforter, I sleep under a rough $55 horse blanket. It isn’t exactly what I wanted, but I see it as an investment.
I hope my dermatologist can help with all the abrasions I seem to have gotten lately.
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
I could understand this…I get very irate when people do not order Fantastically Drawn Prints From… http://www.Supermonge.com
I believe people should do ALL of their Christmas Shopping there….
What Grandma wouldn’t want a poster of Wolverine or a Half Naked Green Fairy Chick?!…But I must say if you’re only there to buy one print of a naked Green Fairy Chick for Grandma then you are not helping my business at all…and I may as well just fold up shop…or should I?!…I actually forgot my point..oh well…I love Roast Beef!
I’m going to go buy a Stick of Jack Cheese hoping that someday it’ll work it’s way into a Roast Beef.
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If you get him in the right mood, I think Supermonge will take beef in exchange for a print.
But if you want to spend some money, some nice art makes a cool gift.
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I actually received an email from a Facebook group which was basically exactly the same thing – “We’re closing down because YOU PEOPLE couldn’t be bothered to do the thing we wanted you to do, but that was kind of a pain in the ass to accomplish. Aren’t you going to miss the thing you didn’t want to do!?!?!”
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People take their businesses so seriously that they overinflate the importance to the community. . We aren’t talkling about passing the 9/11 first responder bill, we are talking about supporting a business that overcharges for eggs. I can buy eggs elsewhere.
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“I’m Don Otto, and you don’t shop at South End then fuck you.”
Yes, I just made a Talledega Nights reference.
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Thanks Grump!
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“It’s not exactly what you want, but it gets you closer to what you want. It’s an investment….”
She describes this blog perfectly 🙂
But in all seriousness, she’s correct. Plenty of times I go to dinner wanting a nice juicy steak and wind up with the vegan tofu platter. It’s an investment or something!
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This is really scary but it makes sense. A lot of kids are raised to believe that they are the reason the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so I suppose it’s logical that when they get into the “real” world they expect things to work the the way they want them to, i.e., in their favor and for their benefit.
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That makes total sense, but the anger behind this is very scary.
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Only tangentially related, but:
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Without the tangentially related I would have no blog.
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