Consumer Electronics Store
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The aisles of a consumer electronics store are usually filled in the evenings and on the weekend with men who absolutely love their gadgets. If it lights up and beeps, men drool and want it and the sorry thing is, once its home, there is soon something bigger and better and they will then want that one too. No doubt about it, just as the women of this country keep the fashion industry buzzing, the male demographic loves their electrically run toys. If it has a circuit board, mother board, digital inputs and outputs, and if the thing requires surround sound or extra speakers, the testosterone is going to howl. The fact is, everyone likes to stroll through a consumer electronics store and see the amazing advances that the microchip has created over the past twenty years. But in the back of everyone's mind is, "if I wait just a little longer, something better is going to come out." The pace of electronic advancement is astounding.
When entering one of these adult playhouses, there are certainly a number of departments that catch the eye. Turn right and head on over to the computers where every possible size, speed, price range and option is available. Within the giant mega consumer electronics store, someone will have the opportunity to walk from the cheapest to the grandest of computers. For ten years or more, pc users were stuck with a fifteen inch monitor, but walk the aisles of these amazing places today, and a twenty two inch monitor is almost standard equipment. And if a person wants a thirty inch monitor, no problem, just add a few hundred dollars to the computer's price and you can take the system home. The giant consumer electronics store at a mall near you knows that the typical American buyer wants it now, not tomorrow and certainly not two days from now. As a result, their inventory can often find DVD players, TVs, computers and printers stacked from floor to ceiling in the back rooms.
With the advent of digital television and the analog system biting the dust on June 12, 2009, the consumer electronics store have been pounding the need for a digital television update for all discriminating buyers. Of course, every husband has loved the FCC and their switch to digital, because it's the perfect lead in to get that high definition, forty inch and if the all the stars are in alignment, plasma beauty. And just like other electronic gear, digital television has fallen in price over the past five years. For instance, a plasma television that was over five thousand dollars just five years ago is now fewer than two thousand dollars and what sports loving guy doesn't want to be able to count the blades of grass in the new Dallas Cowboys stadium? That, my friend is possible with plasma television. Stroll the television department aisle of that consumer electronic store and you'll find guys weeping over the incredible picture that is available in their home with a high definition TV.
But the mega consumer electronics store also wisely knows that DVDs must be comfortably within reach when that new DVD player is purchased. Enter some of the most awesome movie selections this side of Net Flix a person has ever seen. Thousands of movie titles are available and what are even more fun are the hundreds of old TV series that can also be bought for trips back into nostalgia land. Want the entire Picket Fences series, or the Frazier or Everybody Loves Raymond series? More than likely, your neighborhood mega store will have the series and if not, they'll call and find out if the sister store ten miles away has it. Just stop and pick that thing up on the way home. Remember, we Americans don't like to wait for anything!
But your consumer electronics store doesn't just have stuff for the rec room, oh no. Try the kitchen and the laundry room, because electronics have now made those cooking and laundry jobs that much easier. Once a happily married couple enters this part of the store, the man falls asleep and the wife is quite alert, thank you very much. How about a refrigerator that has a built in television or one that looks like another of the kitchen cabinets? Or what about a stainless steel beauty or one that can begin to thaw a chicken breast at the touch of your cell phone? Look long and hard enough and you will find amazing products, like the washer/dryer combination where both the washing and drying take place in the same tub and if you want those clothes steam cleaned just push the button.
No doubt about it, we Americans live in an amazing time. If the credit is good or the wallet is full, we can drive to a stand alone consumer electronics store or in malls across the country and have devices to entertain us for hours on end. Our tasks can be shortened, the laughs, drama and adventure can come a mile a minute, yet for many of us, we are still unhappy. There is certainly nothing wrong with any beeping, whining, light up and turn on electronic gadget, especially if it is in our budget, but they don't do well as soul stuffers. Trying to stuff our souls with things has never been a prescription for happiness. But a relationship with Jesus Christ brings about joy, which is so much greater than happiness: " (Jesus) whom having not seen, ye love; in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." (I Peter1:8)
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