"Fit for the Pit"

Three inferior items that I came across in the last week:


Canadian Tire Eames Lounger @ Yonge and Dundas

Canadian Tire now sells the Barcelona chair and the Eames Lounger. A sales associate asked me if I were a "hardcore gamer" as he pretended he had an invisible remote inbetween his hands. Apparently a lot of people were purchasing the Lounger for gaming because it had a good lean back. Sorry Eames and Mies.......so so sorry.

Up close these chairs were really, really, poor quality reproductions. The bent plywood was chipped everywhere on the Eames, and the "leather" piping was everywhere except where it was supposed to meet on the Barcelona chair.

I heard a rumour that the Maple Leafs emblazoned Eames chair are to arrive in the store next week. (kidding, but if it does happen, I called it first!)




Another Canadian Tire find: a 10-cup Stainless Steel Coffee Maker with.....CONCEALED HIGH-TECH CONTROLS.
Who knew that concealed controls were a selling point for coffee makers?


And finally the best for last.....for the martini lover that is either far too busy, or far too inebriated to bother wasting calories/time shaking and stirring:

For a low, low price of $75.99 (or just three low easy payments of $25.33), you can be the proud owner of this beautiful 20oz electric martini shaker!

Seriously, who would buy this? Whose idea was it to put this thing to market? And how many martinis would one have to drink in a day to warrant "martini-elbow" to justify this item?
Remember the PIT in Street Cents back on CBC back in the 90's? The Electric Martini Shaker is clearly fit for the PIT.