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June 05, 2006
Beer as Cash
Crumplers is a NYC bag store that takes brew instead of cash for its wares. Whoa! Only in America eh?
"Apparently," says the news story, "the owners are huge beer lovers and welcome a fair swap. (Example: A fair swap would not be the $95 'Complete Seed' messenger bag for the five-month-old can of Bud you have lying around your fridge.) A paper wheel available at NY stores and online indicates the sanctioned tradeoffs, which include: one case of Leffe and one bottle of Chimay for the Complete Seed bag; one case of Coopers and two Fosters cans for the Barney Rustle bag; one case of Pacifico and a bag of limes for one bean bag chair."
The owners get beer and other potables and the customer gets a bag or other item of their choice that in Crumplers owner's opinion is a fair exchange of value. Hard to believe such practices being allowed in the uber statist entity that rules Manhattan Island.
But it's all good. The Dutch colonialists originally purchased Manhattan for beads and trinkets way back in the day, so it's a return to an old tradition, eh?
Posted by Ali Massoud at June 5, 2006 02:06 PM
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