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Gen X has finally had enough with Millennials, huh?

By adamg on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:01pm
Killingly Instant Canopy boxes with bar-code sticker over the LY, making it sound like Killing the Next Generation

Ocean State Job Lot is selling various insta-tents and canopies, all named for towns in Connecticut, but Looks Yellow, Tastes Red suggests they be more careful with where they put the bar-code stickers on their Killingly line.

Neighborhoods: 
Dedham
Norwood
Free tagging: 
Rte. 1
Ocean State Job Lot


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Comments

By Ron Newman on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:06pm.

Aren't they a liquidator, selling overstock from other stores?

By cybah on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:13pm.

I think that was their original stick. Back when other store's inventory and ordering systems were not in sync (thus creating the 'overstock'). These days with company boards so hung up on dollars, there's little overstock to sell to OSJL.

What happens now is OSJL goes to manufacturers directly to get stuff. Maybe its last years left overs. Or a specific brand that they had lots of unbranded items for (thus it gets named whatever OSJL wants). Or the item is just manufactured for OSJB, to be sold there.

Or they take a play from TJX playbook. They approach companies and order small batches of things and randomly send them to stores so each store has different items.

By ScottB on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:53pm.

Is to make the store visit be a treasure hunt -- it pushes buttons psychologically to encourage impulse buying.

By cybah on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 6:12pm.

Ain't that the truth. Its hard to go into HomeGoods and not walk out with more than what you planned on going there for.

By BostonDog on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:45pm.

I was in there a few weeks ago and they were selling old wood shipping pallets. The in-store radio marketed them as the solution for a wet basement. (They have a point.)

I'm a big fan of OSJL. The people are always so friendly and they really are the cheapest in-person retailer. Nothing is fancy but the quality and price beats Amazon. I like shopping there.

By ScottB on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:51pm.

You can't stock all the stores with overstock/discontinued/factory seconds. There just isn't enough product available. It's similar to the factory outlets for the various fashion brands -- they end up getting unique SKUs for cheaper items along with some things that didn't sell at retail. TJX (TJMaxx/Marshalls), Ross, and Nordstrom Rack all do the same thing.

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:18pm.

We may be feral but we're just a demographic blip. We've been on the menu since we lost the tax deductions for student loans and had our medicare taxes doubled just as we started out ... and got called "slackers" by the bullies for pointing out the inequities.

We aren't the ones who sucked the life out of younger generations and now want more blood to make up for a fundamental lack of financial self control.

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By Polybius on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 6:01pm.

65.2 million Gen Xers in the US alone by Pew's 2019 estimate is nothing to sneeze at

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 8:16pm.

US population in 2019 was estimated at around 329 million.

Boomers peaked at over 80 million, and Millennials clock in around 78 million.

More importantly, Boomers were a much larger generation than their predecessors, so they took over everything before we could even vote.

By Lee on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 8:33pm.

… fast enough for you.

You want that second vacation home NOW, dammit!

By Friartuck on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 6:48pm.

The launch of MTV and that can never be taken away from us.

By Sator on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 7:56pm.

... the year of endless Def Leopard? Can we give that one back?

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 7:58pm.

By JameC on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:40pm.

Love It !

By ScottB on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:54pm.

So maybe it needs to be where it is since the tent probably contains fentanyl.

By Lee on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 6:54pm.

Somebody has to do it.