If there was a museum of shopping history, it would be in San Francisco. They’d have a terrible time getting permits, but it would have to be here. This city seems to have a historical revue of shopping in America, including all of the retail experiments that went awry.
It’s no coincidence that the first pop-up store I ever went to was here. I thought it was a store that sold those cards that pop up into 3-D scenes of The White House or a jungle diorama. It seemed a little bit specialized, but what did I know? I came from a town where if you needed to buy anything, you had to go to a mall that had been in the same place for more than 40 years. [Read more…] about Shopping Made Difficult