It can say a big “fuck you” to the big-city Urban Outfitters franchises with their condescending employees. It can prove that salespeople can be both nice and have dyed hair/tattoos/neon leggings. It can say, “Despite our hip national status, we are still going to integrate into Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall culture by being hospitable and unpretentious. Also, we are going to maintain our positive reputation in the community by giving a certain local blogger free clothes and/or scarves whenever she asks for them.”
Many sociological questions arise when I contemplate the new Urban Outfitters on the Downtown Mall:
1) By month’s end will all the teenagers in Charlottesville be wearing different versions of the same outfit?
2) Is the new Urban Outfitters a harbinger of the homogenized, corporate culture that will eventually take over downtown?
3) Can I get that in a large?
4) Can I get that in an extra-large? What about an XXL? Do you have that?
5) Is this new store good for the local economy? Specifically, my economy?
6) Does this color look good on me?
7) Can you buy me this?
Until somebody else starts selling ben sherman in our dainty little town I ain’t got a problem with it.
1) By month’s end will all the teenagers in Charlottesville be wearing different versions of the same outfit?
No, that is the point of the store coming to town
2) Is the new Urban Outfitters a harbinger of the homogenized, corporate culture that will eventually take over downtown?
The downtown already is homgenized more thanm 2%milk
3) Can I get that in a large?
Stop eating Mcdonalds
4) Can I get that in an extra-large? What about an XXL? Do you have that?
Stop eating KFC
5) Is this new store good for the local economy? Specifically, my economy?
Yes
6) Does this color look good on me?
Yes
7) Can you buy me this?
I’d love too.
I don’t think less KFC would help make the leather belt bra fit me. That thing was scary.
WHO GIVES A RAT’S ASS WHAT YOU THINK???
Whoa. Someone in Toronto apparently.
Whoa. WTF is wrong with that guy?
So conflicted about this. On the one hand, the Mall is already populated by chains (What, you think Bank of America or Wachovia has one outlet and it happens to be in Charlottesville?). On more or less that same hand, the Mall is getting to be a like a wasteland with a food court. UO means one less empty storefront. I didn’t see anybody local rushing to fill that XXL retail space when the Hardware Store moved out.
That’s one hand.
On the other hand, GO AWAY! The samesame clothes, cheaply constructed, marked up way too high, UGLY, etc, is depressing. Plus, GO AWAY!
Back to that first hand: You see anybody else creating Downtown jobs, even if they are retail jobs? Moreover, TAX BASE, people. The more Buffy shops downtown and lines the city coffers, the less it falls to you and me and our real estate assessments (about which, is there someone I can talk to? $320k!? Are you people serious?) NoVa sends us their pukey spoiled sorostitutes for an education. We take 5% over retail as a reward.
On the other hand, the 1990s called; they want their shopping experience back.
Also, I’m just wondering: Do I have to pay extra for the attitude? Will you take a coupon?
I think the angry guy was from Urban Outfitters Corporate- whose sister company Anthropologie will soon grace us with her presence.
Only one of your questions can be described as “sociological”.
Hopefully Urban Outfitters sells dictionaries.
What is wrong with you? U.O. has so much diversity in their clothes, the styles are always evolving. How could you say that every outfit is the same carbon copy, boring and predictable. You obviously have no sense of what it means to be put together. Secondly, their sizes run large so what on earth would you need an XXL for unless your the friday night spectacle on TLC? Your major attitude coupled with your ignorant and uninformed ranting dosen’t make your personality shine to well considering thats what is most important expecially if your an XXL.
People, please stop fighting my infinite wisdom. I am trying to run a blog here.
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