So Long and Thanks for all the Discounts
I’m very depressed.
One of my favorite stores is shutting down as I’m writing this. Media Play in Appleton isn’t going to be around much longer due to corporate decision. That store and sixty others across the country share the same fate. I just found this out Saturday night and the news hit me like a rushing locomotive. I’m still feeling a little off-kilter. The Fox Valley area is losing a cornerstone in the popular media culture.
I talked to a guy who worked at Media Play in the video department about the store’s closing. He wasn’t sure when the store is going to officially close. All he knew was that it was going to happen. The sister companies such as Sam Goody and Suncoast will remain open. Hopefully those businesses will grow to their full potential.
I asked what’s going to happen to him and his colleagues who worked in Appleton’s Media Play.
“We’ll have to get new jobs,” he said.
That’s too bad. It’s the only place where I can order some of the hard-to-find stuff. Best Buy, located just across the street, won’t even order anything for me. I have to do it online on their website. What if I don’t like computers?
Media Play is also the only place where I pick up a science-fiction magazine printed in England. It’s called SFX. I’m not going to be able to find it in many other places around here. I’ll have to special order it.
Maybe I’ll have to go to the newly opened Exclusive Co. to order. It’ll save me the trip of going to Appleton.
It could be any number of things as to why the store’s shutting down. It could be Wal-Mart. Welcome to the pothole of commercialism. It’s just a corporate decision that feels like a bad Christmas present thrown in everyone’s faces. It feels very heartless, a little ruthless to be doing while December snow is still dangling to the ground. The management will still get their severance pay. And even that can’t be guaranteed. The rest of the folks will have to make do.
Does this Christmas present come with a bowtie and gift-wrapping?
One of my favorite stores is shutting down as I’m writing this. Media Play in Appleton isn’t going to be around much longer due to corporate decision. That store and sixty others across the country share the same fate. I just found this out Saturday night and the news hit me like a rushing locomotive. I’m still feeling a little off-kilter. The Fox Valley area is losing a cornerstone in the popular media culture.
I talked to a guy who worked at Media Play in the video department about the store’s closing. He wasn’t sure when the store is going to officially close. All he knew was that it was going to happen. The sister companies such as Sam Goody and Suncoast will remain open. Hopefully those businesses will grow to their full potential.
I asked what’s going to happen to him and his colleagues who worked in Appleton’s Media Play.
“We’ll have to get new jobs,” he said.
That’s too bad. It’s the only place where I can order some of the hard-to-find stuff. Best Buy, located just across the street, won’t even order anything for me. I have to do it online on their website. What if I don’t like computers?
Media Play is also the only place where I pick up a science-fiction magazine printed in England. It’s called SFX. I’m not going to be able to find it in many other places around here. I’ll have to special order it.
Maybe I’ll have to go to the newly opened Exclusive Co. to order. It’ll save me the trip of going to Appleton.
It could be any number of things as to why the store’s shutting down. It could be Wal-Mart. Welcome to the pothole of commercialism. It’s just a corporate decision that feels like a bad Christmas present thrown in everyone’s faces. It feels very heartless, a little ruthless to be doing while December snow is still dangling to the ground. The management will still get their severance pay. And even that can’t be guaranteed. The rest of the folks will have to make do.
Does this Christmas present come with a bowtie and gift-wrapping?
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