{"id":268,"date":"2006-02-27T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/02\/27\/dont-stop-til-you-get-enough\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T15:13:22","slug":"dont-stop-til-you-get-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/02\/27\/dont-stop-til-you-get-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…shopping, that is.<\/P>
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Well, I headed down to the Cape on Friday night, as planned. But when I got there my parents said they decided against going to Newport, Rhode Island, because they anticipated snow on Saturday. Instead, I told them I needed a pair of jeans and that I wanted to go to “the mall”.<\/P>
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Now, this is the same Cape Cod Mall I worked in for 6 years thoughout high school and my first two summers of college (before permanently moving to Boston). Since then, some horrible renovations have taken place that have turned the place into AnyMall, USA. The same floors, the same white walls, the same stores. Gone is the central foodcourt, gone is the red ceramic tile flooring (an 80’s remodel that covered exposed concrete floors), gone is the Wursthaus restaurant, gone is the Frontier Fruit and Nut kiosk. In all of their places are more chain stores and an obnoxious abundance of kiosks selling cell phones. I swear there are more kiosks taking up valuable walking space than there were in the 80’s.<\/P>
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Anyway, there is not a single entity within this mall that resembles the mall of my youth except for the ugly brick wall in front of the Filene’s store. Yet that is closing any day now and will likely disappear.<\/P>
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On the plus side, it provided me with some amazing bargains. Between Macy’s and Filene’s, I ended up going home with:<\/P>
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