picpak
March 15th, 2007, 01:18 AM
So I went to the supermarket this evening, and I couldn't believe the huge amount of choice with...everything! And then, I went down to the peanut butter aisle, and even THEN I had to choose between smooth...AND chunky peanut butter! Why can't a megacorporation make the choices for me and let me move on with my life? I was outraged! So much, in fact, that I started my own store. It had the best marketing campaign ever...it was my company's logo, with a bunch of shading effects and the slogan, "It's here". It offered no choice between any of its products. Fruits, vegetables, peanut butter, calculators, notepads, paint...you name it. Hundreds of people rushed in on opening day, impressed by the door's glass interface (I didn't have the heart to tell them it was real glass). I had called it "Vesty". The V was for vendetta...no, wait, "very-limited-in-choice". The "esty" came from the fact that I thought it was the bestyest thing I'd ever done.
Then came the crashes. The aisles weren't strong enough to support their own weight, and came crashing down in front of you. When you're on top of a broken ladder trying to get an appliance and the aisle is closing in on you, it doesn't end pretty. We didn't have time to install new aisles, so we just patched them up. It's easy and efficient, no one will notice...right?
Then I noticed something. The other supermarket never had to worry about crashing. Their food stayed fresh, it never went bad, and you certainly couldn't get viruses from it. The security was suberb as well; when a problem arised, they were there as soon as they could and fixed it to the best of their ability.
Now, could this really boil down to the fact that they sold both smooth and chunky peanut butter?
Only time will tell, I guess.
Then came the crashes. The aisles weren't strong enough to support their own weight, and came crashing down in front of you. When you're on top of a broken ladder trying to get an appliance and the aisle is closing in on you, it doesn't end pretty. We didn't have time to install new aisles, so we just patched them up. It's easy and efficient, no one will notice...right?
Then I noticed something. The other supermarket never had to worry about crashing. Their food stayed fresh, it never went bad, and you certainly couldn't get viruses from it. The security was suberb as well; when a problem arised, they were there as soon as they could and fixed it to the best of their ability.
Now, could this really boil down to the fact that they sold both smooth and chunky peanut butter?
Only time will tell, I guess.