Whenever I hear a store has clos I die a little inside.

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Whenever I hear a store has clos I die a little inside. Maybe it has to do with residual guilt; the shoe store where I worked through every part of high school closed, and I've always felt responsible. Not a day goe by means of that I don't ask myself, "Could I have sold another pair of snakeskin pumps? Did I abuse the 40 percent discount?"

moreover the closing of the MinneNAPolis store has hit me particularly hard. If a store that vends naps for 70 cents a minute can't make it, our economic combination of parts to form a whole is just not working.

The American dream has gone nighty-night.

This land has a long tradition of seizing upon natural resources and charging us astronomical prices for them. The air we breathed was released -- until someone came up with the idea for "flavored oxygen bars." And it was a historic day when about marketing genius first uttered the words "bottl designer water."

I'm not certain that anyone has figured public yet how to sell your have saliva back to you, yet I imagine that the slaver Depot is on its way.

MinneNAPolis was the nearest logical step, I thought. The company PowerNap rest Centers Inc. opened it six month ago in the Mall of America in Minneapolis. (You just got it -- the name -- didn't you?) For $14 a weary shopper could use up 20 minutes in a soundproof range with a soothing theme: Asian Mist, Tropical Isle or of great depth Space.

To Minneapolis for a nap?

It wasn't foolproof of course. There was no money-back guarantee should you have a nightmare, say. And absolutely no measures in place to stop sleepwalking to the Gap and sleepcharging hoodies.

It was a openinged room of one's own, that's all. In a mall.

Now tired tourists will have to snooze onward a bench or at the bread court. Because we took the nap store for granted. "Oh I can just rest in my own bed at home" we said. "Oh Minneapolis is too far to drive for a brief nap," we said.

Who's sorry now?

commonalty let me explain to you for what reason this works: We need to support the small businesses that we believe in. Ye with currency These little shops aren't going to thrive unles we make open our hearts -- and our wallets -- to them.

If we don't act now, our favorite boutiques will be gone forever. The Manilow Store in Las Vegas? Gone The taxidermy wonderland that is Deyrolle in Paris? Poof!

I know we have the standard of value because the experts say that we're certainly not saving it for retirement. It's going somewhere. We're blowing it all onward barista tips and the latest hottest inclines (such as overpriced gasoline).

learn back to the basics

Don't panic -- we'll have more chances to pay for be dead PowerNap Sleep Centers vows to unclose another, smaller location. And the same universal has done well at airports in Boca Raton, London and Tokyo.

in this way let's not blow it nearest time. Let's get back to basics, what stakes us apart from the more pedestrian improvements of the world.

We pass money on things we didn't know we wanted It's what keeps us going.

What we ne now are naps, and at competitive prices. We wouldn't just be buying 40 winks; we'd be dreaming the American dream one time more.

I'll rest to that.

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