Add the employees of the My Obama Shop in DC's Union Station to the ranks of the unemployed.
According to U.S. News and World Report, sales tanked along with Obama's popularity and the store was boarded up.
"This time last year, the Obama Store was teeming with customers. Ideally situated in the basement of Washington’s Union Station, the store was filled with consumers eager to buy anything with Obama’s likeness while others took pictures of the life-size cut-outs of the president and first lady. Now, the Obama store is boarded up.
How quickly things change in a year. The Obama store was capitalism at its most brilliant rawness; find a market and exploit it quickly. The store made possible one-stop shopping for all of your tacky Obama merchandise needs. T-shirts! Hats! Calendars! Hand-warmers! Keychains! The store carried every imaginable product with the words 'Obama' and 'commemorative,' except, notably, the Obama Chia Pet."
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anything purchased there will turn out to be good investments when Obama is added to Mt Rushmore....
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