Don't get me wrong... I love Target. Its a place where you can buy clothes that make you look like you actually took the time to shop at a real department store, without all the frills of a real department store, like, for instance, salespeople that can help you find something.... or an organized inventory.

For a long time, Target has battled the original impression that it was a haven for white trash, and has successfully refuted claims that it is "just another Kmart",  "a smaller version of Walmart," or "Pic 'n Save on roids." 

It does this by spending alot of money on television advertising, portraying yipsters (these are yuppie hipsters), having a good ol' time at Target, shopping for their Semi-designer clothes (clothes that were designed by a guy you've never heard of, who Target has hired as a designer, and now has "his own line.")  Target also makes a reasonable attempt to cleanup dirty diapers and puke, whereas the afore mentioned establishments have pretty much just given up on cleanliness altogether. 

So yesterday, I find myself in this playground for the middle class, and I needed a new razor. At some point in time, Gillette got ahold of my personal information and sent me a free five-bladed razor that they intuitively named "Fusion." 

I figured I would just pick up a pack of blades for it and that would be that. Upon arriving at the razor isle, I saw what most surely had to be either a typo on the price gun, a brain fart by someone in Gillette's accounting department, or the handy work of Billy. I shit you not when I say this:

a pack of replacement blades, which includes eight (8) blades, costs $23.00. 

Now, i'm not a cheap man, and i'm certainly not poor, but I can see the proverbial commercial dick, especially when its flying at my butthole at the speed of light. $3.00 a blade? Who the fuck do these people think they are? For that matter, who do they think WE are? Trumps? Chumps?

A $3.00 shaving blade is the equivalent to a $12.00 cup of coffee. If coffee were $12.00 a cup, i'd stop drinking the shit all together.

At this point, I am so disgusted ...(cont p 2)

Today - USA -  7 Eleven stores nationwide spontaneously changed their signage to portray these locations as being "Kwik E Marts" from the hit TV show "The Simpsons," and have begun selling fictional items from the show in the stores. 

 "In addition to selling 'slushies' instead of "slurpies' , we're also selling 'nuclear waste-o's' from 'the nuclear plant' in lieu of 'twinkies'," said Jerry McFarth, store clerk. "Man,  nuclear-waste-o's are delicious." , he added. 

When asked if they would be opening a chain of restaurants owned by grumpy middle aged men with Brooklyn accents,  7 Eleven had no comment.