Pith in the Wind

Archives | RSS

  |  

Monday, February 9, 2009

By the Way Local Signs of the Recession

Posted by PJ Tobia on Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM

click to enlarge blog_20pic.jpg

I was at a Walgreen's store in an upscale Nashville neighborhood yesterday buying shaving razors. Like most stores, this place kept the shaving stuff behind lock and key. The difference is that this store had also alarmed their display case, so that when the door is unlocked a little alarm goes off that grows increasingly louder--and annoying--until the case us locked again.

I remarked to the woman helping me that it seemed odd to keep shaving supplies behind an alarmed door. She told me that as the economy deteriorates, they're having a much bigger problem with shoplifting.

"It's gotten much worse just in the last month," she said. "We've even taken to locking up some of the diapers, that's how desperate people are getting."

She paused, looked over her shoulder and said in a low tone, "but if someone in such bad shape that they need to steal diapers for their kids, it's hard for me to not want to just give them to them."

Later that day I saw a sign stuck in the front yard of a south Nashville home that read: "Need Ca$$h. Tools for sale. Available for hourly work." Seeing and hearing these things helps put all the numbers and statistics about our deteriorating economy in an entirely new light.

That bad times have come and I think they'll be around for a while.

Tags: , , , , ,

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this thread:
By Email
With RSS

Add a comment

Top Topics in
Pith in the Wind

Politics (64)

Legislature (59)

Phillips (41)

Sports (16)

Media (14)

Law and Order (13)

Around Town (9)

Crazy Crap (7)

Breaking News (7)

Education (6)

Top Commenters

The SouthComm Set Nfocus | Her Nashville | The City Paper | LEO Weekly | BusinessTN | Music Row | NashvillePost.com | Medical News Papers

All contents © 1995-2012 City Press LLC, 210 12th Ave. S., Ste. 100, Nashville, TN 37203. (615) 244-7989.
All rights reserved. No part of this service may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of City Press LLC,
except that an individual may download and/or forward articles via email to a reasonable number of recipients for personal, non-commercial purposes.
Powered by Foundation