Monday, January 21, 2008

J.VILLA SPOTS OF THE DAY/PINK-BERRY-DUMB?

Dropped by Archrival in Japanese Village/Little Tokyo today.
Pretty quiet in the store as usual, but noticed that the girls' shirts were out including these three designs:

For the men's selection, Archrival shirts include all of the above women's designs as well as this throwback:Props to the Archrival site for the images...support the store and pick some shirts up or pay a visit to the website.
After stopping by PopKiller and Rif, picked up some freezy yogreezy @ recently opened Pinkberry on 2nd st. A little piece of advice to Pinkberry patrons:
Never order 5 Medium x 3 topping combos without first carefully spelling out each and every order because:
1) the girl taking down your order will probably never be quick enough to enter into the computer which 3 simple toppings you want with which 2 simple flavors of yogurt (note: there IS a third flavor now -coffee- so things CAN get a little more complicated) as you clearly enunciate and speak slow enough as if she was a tween.
2) the rest of the workers there will simply be incapable of following the directions that are printed on each sticker on every cup to correctly place the 3 toppings on the correct cup
3) by the time you wanna complain, all of the yogurt starts melting - worst thing in yogurt eating is to drinking it's tartness in liquid form.
4) when you do complain about the wrong toppings, they all synchronize and give you a sad face as if it was your mistake that the stupid register girl can't type in the right toppings - and then asks if it's OK to just add the missing topping on the existing toppings - which you finally agree to considering you gained $0.95 worth another topping you didn't want
5) you contemplate and question the simplicity of the company: yogurt + toppings + directions on each label = hardest job in the world?
6) after it's all said and done, you know you should have gone to Red Mango anyway.
Or even better - Yogurtland to do things your own way.

Conclusion: Just SLOW IT DOWN when you're ready to indulge @ Pinkberry. We yogurt-fiends are too-fast-too-furious for them apparently.
Side note: we still stuffed our faces with yogurt to pretend the complications never occured. Good enuff!

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