Re: [microsound] 99 cent culture

[vze26m98 <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fastus wrote on 2/27/07 at 1:29 PM

>First personal response about the topic: the idea of the 99c store 
>evokes the culture of  "cheap", the sense of getting a bargain and 
>beating the system while denying the possible cost in human
exploitation 

Well the Wall Street Journal wouldn't be a bad place to look for a rich
treatment of this topic: the "Just-a-Buck" stores have a very carefully
crafted sales approach that's designed to obscure that they're actually
more expensive than other places for most of what they sell.