Goodbye CompUSA http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/CompUSAToCloseAllStores.aspx
And goodbye to the hundreds of rebates you made us fill out to make your prices competitive with everybody else.
I have watched several stores go in and out of the Jantzen Beach mall complex in Portland, OR. I still have a pristine Computer City mouse pad. I also have a nearly full case of unopened floppy disk 10 packs from the same store.
Finally a bit of humor for the whole process. It is a very bad thing for businesses to have a street renamed because of the expense involved. However the last proposal I’ve seen makes me think, “Go for it.”
If you are not familiar with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by the late Douglass Adams, I’ll just state that 42 is an important number and leave it at that.
There will be no references to very bad poetry, sad robots, or double headed goof-offs. I will not mention how important peanuts and towels are. I will not even mention anything about the importance of renaming a cross street to Improbability Drive the following year.
So if you haven’t already jumped over to http://rename42nd.org, I’ll tell you now that the Portland they are referencing is Portland, Oregon.