Thursday, April 20, 2006
Harbourtown: a Town of Many ... Harbours
Spent some of last weekend at Harbourtown, a conglomerate of factory outlet thingies ... I'm not sure of the proper generic term (after all, what retailer isn't a factory outlet of sorts?) but hopefully you know what I mean. Your one-stop shop for lurid orange XXXL Ralph Lauren shirts at $29.99 and so forth.
Anyway, this place has food outlets as well. LOTS of food outlets. And unlike all the other shops, their wares are nothing out of the ordinary, and are all normally priced. Surely it's not too much to ask that they, too, should be part of the Harbourtown experience? Should not the food have something wrong with it, and be slightly discounted? For example, could Croissant Express not sell gigantic or ridiculously small muffins, perhaps next to BLT rolls with no T and twice as much B as normal? All washed down with lashings of Coca Cola made with no sugar (or conversely, five times the normal amount of sugar)? All generously discounted by 20%?
You know it makes sense.
Anyway, this place has food outlets as well. LOTS of food outlets. And unlike all the other shops, their wares are nothing out of the ordinary, and are all normally priced. Surely it's not too much to ask that they, too, should be part of the Harbourtown experience? Should not the food have something wrong with it, and be slightly discounted? For example, could Croissant Express not sell gigantic or ridiculously small muffins, perhaps next to BLT rolls with no T and twice as much B as normal? All washed down with lashings of Coca Cola made with no sugar (or conversely, five times the normal amount of sugar)? All generously discounted by 20%?
You know it makes sense.
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Huh, well that's The Onion for you; stealing other people's ideas before they've had a chance to express them in any way.
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