We've been a little bit lazy with the Storecasting of late—an almost overwhelming amount of new shops have been announced recently, and we've been occupied with other things. So we're taking the whole day today to bring you news of all the stores you'll soon see opening around the city. Consider this our fall shopping preview.
Soho:40 Mercer, the Jean Nouvel-architected, André Balazs-designed Soho residential development has found another suitably high-end, slightly-boring tenant to join the building's retail stable (which includes Wachovia and Viviene Tam): audio equipment seller Bose. A source writes: "Saw a guy putting up signage in the windows of 40 Mercer the other day. He said BOSE is taking up the space just to the north of Wachovia Bank on the NE corner of the building (next to the glass-walled "park")." That's 1,640-square-feet that'll soon be filled with all sorts of premium speaker systems. Wondrous. [Racked Inbox]
If you knew how to read, Anonymous, you would see that nowhere do I write that they are cheap. Bose is extremely overpriced, one of the reasons audiophiles hate them. I'm not rich: my household income is 60k/year, a below average midwest salary.
Many trailer trash people spend $1000's on their weddings. Does that mean they're rich? Just because you splurge on something once in a while doesn't mean you're rich.
Just to elaborate on the good points Turboff makes in #4, you can get a way better sounding rig that's cheaper than overpriced Bose whose slogan should be "illusory perception of better sound through marketing propaganda."
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