Hey guys, I was shopping at a local grocery store (the UGO in Knoxville, TN) that sells odds and ends, scratch and dent stuff (think a Big Lots for grocery items) and I came across this table of new in bag Circuit City red polos. I am told that the company bought them for $0.25 a shirt, and they are selling them for $1.00 a shirt. I also found a few of the XXL shirts with a Generation C logo on a sleeve. They have like 8 cases of these things in different sizes, men and women's styles.
So, dear readers: What would you do with these shirts?
]]>@Alexander: oh god, you beat me to it.
]]>At a buck apice, these shirts offer both disgruntled former customers and employees the perfect opportunity for closure:
1. Buy several shirts.
2. Visit local shooting range; purchase practice targets with the picture of a menacing criminal holding a gun.
3. Cover attacker's shirt with CC shirt.
4. Remember to follow all gun safety rules while acting out your ultimate fantasy.
5. Save your best rounds (definitely suitable for framing and far more politically correct than hanging the head of an innocent deer or moose over your fireplace).
Enjoy!
]]>@minsky: totally! i'd have zombie makeup on or something. back from the dead???
]]>I would buy like 10 just to have 10 shirts for $10, but I would wear it outside best buy or walmart get on my knees and say "YOU BASTARDS, YOU BLEW IT UP!!!"
]]>However, I think the donation idea is by far the most practical and generous. People who need shirts won't care if a nice polo has a logo on it.
]]>I figured I'd wear one every day and not have to do laundry. Summer IS coming.
]]>As for what to do with them? Buy up a bunch of them. Keep a couple as a souvenir from the days of shitty service past, and give the rest to a local homeless shelter.
]]>It is kinda sad to see these shirts there being sold for $1. Think of all the people who lost their jobs and now the shirts are being sold for pennies...ouch!
]]>Use them as runner-up prizes in WCIA.
]]>I would totally buy one of those and revel in it's wearing...kind of the same way a dog will roll around in something dead. There's a glee to be had there...for some reason.
]]>Who??? Now I'm dying to know
]]>*Please do not forget pants or other legwear. This should be assumed, but (as past experience has shown me) some people need reminded on occasion.
]]>Offer the company who is selling them 50 cents each. They'll double their money and us, the consumers, don't have to overpay for the shirts. A dollar?! Rip-off!!
]]>Carry on.
]]>@Applekid: The problem, of course, is that no one has actually seen a Circuit City Salesman- and, chances are, when they saw you, they would no doubt ask about their computer they dropped off.
]]>Be rude too, and see how many people say they are going to report you to the manager.
]]>@Preyfar: also holy crap preyfar! i know who you are
]]>@Preyfar: oh man that would be AWESOME.
]]>Halloween costume... fo' shooow
]]>That's really something they should have considered when they chose the company uniform
]]>I would buy them all and send them to the Improv Everywhere people. They'll find a good use for them, I'm sure.
]]>@CSUSam:
Word. I have CC long/short sleve polos, Roadshop mechanic's shirts, and a bunch of vendor swag shirts and hats (Sirius, Pioneer, Eclipse, etc.)...and a few winter coats. No, I wasn't a manager - I just liked free stuff and did what I could to find it.
2) ?
3) Profit.
]]>Why yes, I am evil...why do you ask ?
]]>@pecan 3.14159265: That would be one hilarious Improv Everywhere stunt! I love that group!
]]>I worked there when these shirts first came out and htey were like gold, couldn't get one to save my life.
]]>Too funny, they'd make great halloween costumes!
]]>You could always wear them when you cut the grass or change your oil.
]]>@Alexander: spot on.
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