Mall Madness and Real Fruit Smoothies

Who would have guessed that it would take a study to find out that teens go to the mall just to hang out? If you didn't realize from that rhetorical question that I did not like this story, then I shall tell you. I didn't like this story. Of course there are people out there who go to malls to actually buy something and people who go to malls just because they have nothing else to do. It seems funny to me how Fiske and Sinclair are stating how very few products survive in the marketplace and how window shoppers could be the cause. If I would go to any store such as Sears or Circuit City, there would be a 100% chance that I would find either an aisle or a bin containing random knick-knacks or an "As Seen on TV" sign on it. Most of these things are random crap that no human in their right mind would buy or believe would work. Since I said "in their right mind", there would also be a good chance that I would see someone buying the stuff as well. There should be another study to find out the success rate of products that are actually worth purchasing or are not extreme luxuries. Let us see how well a $19.99 flourescent desk lamp fairs against a $1499.99 massaging recliner or a $79.95 dog water purifying machine (both are real and the prices are close to correct for what I have seen) in the marketplace. But then again, the study would have to be valid if it were government funded because the results were information that we already know and probably took years for the researchers to figure out. Lastly, of course the suppliers want the window shoppers ("proletarian shoppers" by Pressdee's standards but he just wants to be fancy) to actually buy something because then they would get money. Including that are the teens who just sit around and do nothing or perform by what Fiske called it, "tricky" behavior and mess with the mall cops. There's nothing wrong with stickin' it to the man, especially if you have no money to spend at the mall anyway haha.

And where does the real fruit smoothies come into play? Well, you could probably buy them at a mall. It'd be easier to just go to the rec center snack bar though. $3.50 for a real fruit smoothie...not too shabby. So everyone buy yourself a real fruit smoothie, but it in a paper bag and walk around some mall drinking it while it's still in the paper bag so you can be "tricky." Make some use of that "proletarian shopping" while you're at it.