Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Los Angeles, which is where I live, happens to be a great place for junk. People have a lot of it, and they sell it and trade it: At these big swap meets, many, many hundreds of dealers of junk will descend upon a football field on a Saturday and sell all their stuff.
I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.