Recent Purchase.

I just returned from an excursion to Best Buy. I decided to cash in on my most recent paycheck and get a new digital camera. My old one decided to breakdown a couple months ago and the little digital display stopped working. I could work around the display not functioning, but then I realized that as time passed and I used my busted camera more and more, the pictures got fuzzier and fuzzier and now it doesn't even attempt to focus. Very sad really. Especially sad that the final clear picture of its small digital life was of a really gross sink. I also figured that now was the time to purchase a new camera since (a) it's beautiful out, (b) senior week is coming up and (c) I'll need to be taking some last minute pictures for yearbook -- a lot of them.

Anyway, after doing a bunch of research I found a camera that I liked -- the purchase was pretty uneventful. However, after the purchase the Best Buy guy put it in a special bag. Not just your everyday normal plastic bag -- a special one. It was all clear and had a sticky strip on the top so that it would seal. Then you would poke these little holes on the side for easy gripping. He reminded me of Mr.Bean in "Love Actually", you know that scene where he's gift-wrapping the necklace but keeps on doing more stuff to the bag. That was what happened with this shopping bag.

At first I thought it was interesting that they would spend all this money on extra bags just to make their customers feel like Best Buy actually cares about them and wants them to have more durable bags. Then I realized it was so that I didn't stick unpaid for stuff in my bag on the way out. Best Buy spends extra money to make their customers feel like shoplifters.