Word: bargainers
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Prior to a bargain struck last June betweenHarvard and the attendants' union--ServiceEmployees International Union Local 254--themuseum hired three different types of attendantsat three different levels of pay: day guards,night guards, and limited regular guards...
...emerge from the dressing room, the good half of your personality having overcome the bad, you pay for your purchases with a sense of pride. You smart shopper, you. As the bag says, "I just got a bargain...
...Loving a bargain is universal. It is the equivalent of a good kill after a long hunt. You feel intelligent, attractive, savvy. Shouting a bargain from the rooftops, however, is an uniquely American tendency. Especially in New England, our culture admires thrift as well as appearances...
...with these begs. People would buysomething, leave the store, throw out their bagand put the merchandise into a backpack or anotherplastic bag. They weren't pound of their bargains.They were almost ashamed. I still shudder to thinkof it. They didn't want anyone to know they hadjust gotten a bargain...
...image of the forsaken Tatou bags is hard toreconcile with the black and white Filene'sBasement bags with "I just got a bargain!"scrawled across them. These begs provoke so muchenvy, so much admiration...