Fuck, I miss Bed Bath and Beyond

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Fuck, I miss Bed Bath and Beyond

[mcc@mastodon.social]

We've got this Kroger's ass local chain called "Homesense" and it's like, oh here's the sheet I want except oh wait it's only in white not gray. They only have the white in the wrong size. Oh also you can only get a fitted sheet not a regular sheet. "Well maybe we'll get different things in at the next shipment" Can you look in the computer and see if this item in white is something they have in the warehouse? "No"

[mcc@mastodon.social]

When I was young these superstores with every combination of every item were viewed as emblematic of the crushing impersonal dehumanization of capitalism. But now that I am old capitalism is still crushing, impersonal and dehumanizing but we no longer have the varied array of cheap consumer products

[thomasjwebb@mastodon.social]

@mcc even though I don't go there anymore, I know I'll miss big book stores when they're gone (unless they surprise me and don't go away). I also miss rainbow capitalism, because it was better than this very much non-rainbow capitalism.

Capitalism: always getting worse, even on its own terms.