Here's a little thing I wrote about Woolworths going bust. Hope you like it, dave --------------------
Like three shopping days to the end of the world Everything must go The last few days Closing down sales Bargains galore They're selling the curtains They're selling the floor The high profile loser of a desperate bunch An undoubted victim of the Credit Crunch Everyone's favourite High Street shop Sadly heading for the chop Get a life it's only a shop! But the kids are quite devastated They beg me to save it Can they buy it with their pocket money Hmmm ... And now In a London with nowhere for children to go We have even fewer nowhere's left (I know it was crap But it was a heated building) Coming soon Another empty space, unused, owned by an anonymous landlord registered in the Cayman Isles While homeless people sleep on the pavement in front What happened to Caring Capitalism Or even Capitalism The man on the telly The corporate suit Explained some economics to us relatively uneducated classes Woollies couldn't survive in the current climate Debts and losses mounted Of course An outdated business model In trouble for years, they said And besides - Tesco everyone's favourite monopoly wants a larger share of the shopping public's cash And the government want them to have it (to keep inflation down apparently is part of the vision) It's the future Accept it man Just cars And one shop And we drive there And all the roads lead to there and back And there are no local High Streets Where people meet In corporate pseudo meeting places like Tesco foyers and car parks And we all let this happen Why? Because we've gone soft in the head Or we don't know what's good anymore Some are calling for the government to bail out Woollies How could they let this happen, to such an institution? Started in Liverpool in 1909 It's a precious part of our Island cultural past etc They did it for the banks didn't they But it's not the same Is it, or is it, please explain Well you see all Banks are important As are all Bankers After all they fucked up the economy good and proper this time Just flexing their muscles. Showing their power Or lack of sense It's hard to tell the difference isn't it Of course the government bailed them out As how else could they pay the xmas bonuses? Here's an idea Why don't we make Woollies into a pretend shop? In the way that the Queen is just a figurehead for tourism And has no power So she does nothing really But we all pay for it Just to keep the Americans coming here So Woollies could maybe work along the same lines And the kids would still have somewhere to go? Save Woollies now It's of national importance _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
