8 posts tagged “shopping”

Ever wandered into a music or video store here and there are sections marked ‘A–Z’, ‘New Zealand’ and ‘Foreign’?
   The biggest section is the first one, and often we have the smallest section.
   Think about it though: shouldn’t everything not in ‘New Zealand’ be under ‘Foreign’?
   The other one I get a kick out of is ‘World’, which Borders uses. Shouldn’t everything be under ‘World’? I mean, if you have this category, there is no need to have any others.

Why do you make some purchases online and others in-store? What ultimately prompts you to go in-store?
Sponsored by Best Buy.

Should I answer this, since it’s not from a Voxer?
   Might as well, just to help Vox and its bottom line.
   I buy based on price. If I can get a better deal online, I will go for it. I am one of the world’s biggest tightwads.

Modify home page

A nice site came across my virtual desk today: Modify, an eco-chic boutique specializing in higher-end fashion, accessories, home items and beauty products. I don’t know the folks behind it, but I am pretty impressed with the home page design. We linked it from the Lucire Shopping Guide—the online one—today.
   Shows there’s plenty of growing credibility to covering eco-fashion, something we pioneered among mainstream fashion titles earlier this century.

Which are your favourite sites for shopping online?

One word: Amazon. Since 1996 I have been happily shopping there and the way the website checkout is structured has become a de facto shopping model.

In 2039, they’ll be laughing at us, but for now, let’s laugh at the 1975 J. C. Penney catalogue. It’s a stone soul gas—I can dig it. And the bongs that Penneys sold: groovy. Mellow out, man.

http://badbanana.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/catalog-shoppin.html

It’s so hard finding New Zealand-owned juice at supermarkets. Just back from Pak ’n’ Save and New World in my area, and mostly it was Citrus Tree and Keri (French and American). Fresh-up, Just Juice: also French. New World at least had a few Pam’s three-litre juices left, which I paid $4·85 or thereabouts for—and Pam’s was, once, the poverty brand. Where are the Kiwi juices that are also good value for money?
   Speaking of which, I now buy Hong Kong-made blank CDs and DVDs that appear to be marketed by a domestic firm, and they come in cheaper than the regular brands at Corporate Consumables. What the brand is, I can’t recall. But I will with a few more repeated purchases. (OK, just checked: they’re called Zone. And they are ink-jet safe, and I haven’t experienced any difference in performance between them and the Japanese and Korean branded stuff I normally buy.)
   Interestingly, the checkout girls are getting more multicultural. I had an Indonesian and an Iraqi serve me. The latter joked about being from Baghdad. I said, ‘Must have been a nice looking city when you were a kid.’ Her reply: ‘Not any more.’ But it sure is nice to be an émigrée, I’ll bet, away from the crap going on back home. I feel the same way (but as an émigré).
   Also bought Andrew Niccol’s Lord of War DVD, going for $15. Can’t wait to see what this Kiwi writer–director cooked up. I remember talking to his Dad about it when he was still writing it.