Chatty Bus
Fully loaded up with the day’s shopping, most of the weary bus riders were content to sway with the bus to and fro in a daze on their way home. A woman with a rather large box sitting in the front garnered some looks as the newcomers trundled to the rear.
That is until an elderly gentleman chose to ask where she got her stereo system. She answered that she got it at the Best Buy. Then there was a flurry of reviews of all the electronics retailers – how Circuit City was this and Radio Shack was that, etc. More riders joined in, they spoke of where to go and where they had been, how some woke at the crack of dawn to get the Black Friday sales.
Others talked of ordering online, how the store locator didn’t indicate correctly all the Manhattan store locations. How you could now order online and then pickup! “What a concept.” Then it moved to the economy, about how this was a great time for buyers. How the woman was looking for a new TV to join her new stereo system.
Then she spoke of how she got some great bargains for clothes. My attention drifted off to the yogurt I wished I had a spoon for. In Manhattan it sure didn’t seem like the consumers were pulling back.
