Credit Crunch: Have you noticed a difference?
So another day, another company comes crashing to a halt. This time it’s a shop I was in loads as a kid demanding sweets and juice, and generally being a pain in the backside to my parents. My mum even worked in Woolworths when she was younger, and I remember getting my first ‘things’ there, such as my first pair of shoes (Niks), my first computer game (double dragon for the Atari) and my first music CD (Areosmiths greatest hits volume 1).
It’s quite a shame when you see places you used to go to as a kid disappear. I remember loads of shops that are no longer here, and I’m oddly sad about the fact Woolies is gone. Strange yes, I mean, I never worked there, but I have fond memories of running up an down the aisles causing chaos for staff and generally acting like a bull in a China shop.
It’s different these days as the majority of kids buy stuff online, and there is no connection with the shop to build up. They could probably tell you where to find exact products in a website, but have lost the skills (?) of finding stuff on shelves. Like the classic dash to a shelf when you realise you’ve forgot to pick up something and the queue at the till is massive.
It’s a worrying time for a lot of people, I’m struggling to make ends meet, and that’s with a full time job and no kids to worry about, so how people with large families are coping is beyond me…well, actually not completely beyond me…
If you’ve seen the news recently it’s all doom and gloom, end the world as we know it type stories, but if you’ve been in the town centre recently you won’t notice the difference. People are happily throwing money at cashiers, but not real money, in fact not it’s not even their own money…it’s the banks money. Its sales going on credit cards, and overdraughts, but what these people are forgetting is that although the recession is tough at the moment, if anything were to happen to just one of the main banks in the coming months, we’d all be up sh#t creek without a paddle.
And it’ll get worse, just look at every financial analyst. They all look like they are in pain, and that’s because they have lost a ton of money on various shares on multiple companies going down the drain. People need to wise up that its going to get harder, and that its going to stay difficult for at least a year. Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling must be hoping that the conservatives win the next election, so that they can shoulder the massive responsibility of saving a country in crisis.
Anyway, the fact is Woolworths is gone, and we have no money. Merry Xmas.
