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Title: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: thundley4 on November 24, 2010, 06:56:14 PM
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Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop? Aiming to Revive Sales of "Morgue Merchandise"
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) The morgue has got to be the last place you'd think to go shopping - so perhaps it's not surprising that sales at the Los Angeles County Coroner's gift shop are next to dead.

Then again, officials are encouraging the coroner to develop a marketing strategy. They appear to be dead serious.

Tucked as unobtrusively as possible in a closed-door room off the coroner's lobby, the store is jam-packed with mortality-mocking merchandise: Water bottles marked "bodily fluids," boxer shorts dubbed "undertakers," toe tags, crime-scene tape and beach towels bearing the county coroner's trademarked symbol of a body outline.
CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20023657-504083.html)

Sales have flatlined the last couple of years.
Title: Re: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: littlelamb on November 24, 2010, 08:39:11 PM
People need to open their wallets and spend some cold hard cash
Title: Re: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: true_blood on November 24, 2010, 08:56:16 PM
Those deals are,...."to die for". :lmao: :fuelfire:
Title: Re: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: Eupher on November 25, 2010, 09:52:35 AM
Don't be fooled - the credit card bills will be stiff.
Title: Re: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 25, 2010, 01:10:58 PM
Lemme guess--this story was buried on one of the back pages . . .  :fuelfire:
Title: Re: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: Eupher on November 25, 2010, 02:57:05 PM
Lemme guess--this story was buried on one of the back pages . . .  :fuelfire:

Yeah, but it was resurrected. And now we're looking at coffin' up a buncha bucks for a buncha zombies.
Title: Re: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: Thor on November 25, 2010, 03:36:50 PM
My wallet has achieved rigor mortis when it comes to purchasing things from the LA County Coroner.

BTW, I've actually had to go there. It was just like on Quincy. (for you OLD folks)
Title: Re: Black Friday Deals from the L.A. Coroner's Gift Shop?
Post by: BlueStateSaint on November 25, 2010, 03:41:06 PM
Yeah, but it was resurrected. And now we're looking at coffin' up a buncha bucks for a buncha zombies.

Your pun was deader than mine.  H5.