Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for April 28, 2011

…or who keeps coming up with the same old tired “Sale” strategy.

Yeah, and while you’re at it ask why they keep going out of business and another furniture store with a different name reopens in the same spot!!!!!!!

…or find out who’s buying really ugly stuff that nobody wants in the first place and fire his/her butt. Land’s End has seasons like that; you can’t find one attractive piece in decent colors. Who thinks that people want to wear neon orange or lime green or royal blue or any “hot/warm” colors. Same goes for furniture.

The perpetually going-out-of-business store is illegal in Ohio now. Too many were using the ploy to get out of honoring warranties. I expect the current Repug gov to try to reverse that too.

There was a furniture store where I grew up with a big sign, ‘We have not had a sale in 40 years’ or some such. I could never figure out how they stayed in business.

Nah, that would make sense.