Friday, August 26, 2005
Salvage Heaven / Predemolition sales offer help-yourself, home-hardware bargains -- Carol Lloyd, San Francisco Chronicle
Salvage Heaven / Predemolition sales offer help-yourself, home-hardware bargains: "It is 9 a.m., an hour before opening, and already a small crowd of shoppers has assembled. They peer through windows, scoping out the products and eyeing each other with appraising glances. Like so many deep-discount, for-a-limited-time-only sales, this event has attracted hard-core bargain hunters, with checkbooks in hand and prepared to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
But despite the anticipatory anxiety wafting through the morning air, this is no orgy of shameless consumerism but a recycling extravaganza disguised as retail madness. Because everything that gets bought here is one less thing headed for the landfill."
But despite the anticipatory anxiety wafting through the morning air, this is no orgy of shameless consumerism but a recycling extravaganza disguised as retail madness. Because everything that gets bought here is one less thing headed for the landfill."
