Alaska Town Gets Store Selling Underwear

[Khephra]

By PATTY SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer

February 13, 2004, 3:43 PM EST


PALMER, Alaska -- Palmer will have underwear once more.

This small town has not had panties and briefs since the early 1990s. That's not to suggest the locals are not wearing underwear. They are, or so they assure us, and this being cold, cold Alaska, we're inclined to take their word for it.

But ever since three stores in Palmer closed, there has been no place in town to buy underwear, or any other clothes for that matter, except for a tourist T-shirt. People have to drive 20 miles round-trip to Wasilla, or 80 miles round-trip to Anchorage, to buy their drawers.

But those days are about to end with the opening March 3 of a Fred Meyer supermarket in this town of 5,500.

"Yes, we will have underwear," store manager John Mayer said to whoops, laughter and applause Wednesday at a Palmer Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

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[GOPisEvil]

1. It's the little victories that mean the most sometimes.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. So we can conclude from this that the t-shirt vendor is a TOTAL MORON

He or She is already buying clothing and t-shirts for sale - how much more difficult would it to be to order some underwear and have the underwear monopoly in town?

Sheesh. Talk about having an opportunity handed in your lap, lick your face, and scream at you, and failing to notice it.