Hollywood Video Crisis Looms Large

gorbachev.jpgWhile I was lucky enough to get my very own Nintendo Wii awhile ago it seems as if the shortages are not just affecting the consoles and accessories.

I went to Hollywood Video today to rent a game for some friends coming over tomorrow and they not only were they out of the game I wanted but every single Nintendo Wii game in the store was checked out. Every single copy of every single game.

Now I know how those people in Russia felt when they tried to buy bread only to find none on the shelves…

wait…what?

written on March 29, 2007 in Observations ·

Comments

  1. Nick Long says:
    April 12, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    The cost of bread exceeded that of grain in the early 90′s and so Russian farmers were feeding their stock bread, resulting in a shortage. You can buy a loaf of bread in Moscow these days for $.35. I can’t even get a loaf at the ‘day old’ store for twice that. Consider this, however…the inflation rate in Russia hit 2000% in 1992. At a standard price of $2.00, that loaf just hit the $4,000 mark. That Nintendo Wii just cost you $500,000