(originally from 08-09??)So I was walking in the mall for the first time in a long time just to remind myself how lame I think they are. There's a lot of really useless stuff at places like Spencers. They have all those dimwitted "beer humor" and "so you turned 50" novelty items. A lot of this stuff is marked down and covered with layers of clearance stickers to the point that they're practically giving it away, yet still nobody wants it. I browsed around Target and saw a lot of really useless toys nobody wants. Hot Topic had some pretty useless shit too (actually that whole store is useless for cultural reasons). I started to wonder, where the hell does all this shit go in the end? Not everything can be sold no matter how low you sell it. Is every stupid little unwanted item in a mall suppose to be owned by someone eventually?
Is it all just given/thrown away or recycled to make room for the new stupid shit when nobody buys it when it's on clearance forever? I never worked in retail but I remember my brother worked in Kay Bee Toy store (that place is practically extinct cause of way too many useless unwanted toys). Think he said something about unsold toys getting shipped back to the company, distributor, or whatever when the store needs room and nothing sold on clearance. But then what does the company end up doing with it when they get it back?
What the hell did Galoob do with all those Men In Black toys? What did Immortal Records end up doing with all those unsold copies of that No One cd (No One, the lamest of lame generic nu-metal bands!) What did Sega do with all those unsold Cliffhanger for Game Gear cartridges? What did that one company that was stupid enough to make Wild Wild West toys do with all those Cowboy Will Smith figures? What did Kenner do with all those Starting Lineup toys of Chris Sabo (why did they even make a toy of Chris Sabo to begin with, I shouldn't even know that name!). Atari apparently buried millions of ET games in some desert. so I wouldn't be surprised if there was an entire forest full of Big Bad Beetlborg action figure.
I guess most of the time it all gets re-distributed to those cheap outlet stores and dollar stores (shipping stuff back and forth must be a waste of money). From there some poor people buy it for Christmas. But still, something like a Chris Sabo toy is not exactly something that will be cherished forever and passed on from generation to generation within a family. Eventually it's gonna get broken, lost, or simply thrown away when whoever owns it realizes how stupid it is and why it was so cheap to begin with.
In the end, it's all garbage. Everything you had the opportunity to buy in this world is doomed to be garbage.
I just think it's funny that even unwanted shit had a price tag at some point of its pathetic existence. Did people really believe they were going to make a profit producing such bullshit? I'd like to meet the genius that decided it was a good idea to make Wild Wild West toys...seriously, Wild Wild West toys. I can picture the guy saying, "We're going to be millionaires by capitalizing on a godawful Will Smith movie..and then we'll rule the world!".
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