>So Cargo Six is a cousin to today's ninety-nine cent stores?

Not quite. It's much more eclectic and weird than "Blah For a Dollar"-type places, and has stuff across a much wider price range. The only common factors in their stock are that they're cheaper than you'd expect for what they are, and that they often don't have much of anything to do with the stuff right next to them. You'd be as likely to find a 10-by-30 remnant of that hideous casino lobby carpet from the acid-freakout scene in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas next to a stack of KitchenAid mixers, and maybe a hundred remaindered copies of Sweet Jesus I Hate Bill O'Reilly next to that.

Real-world analogs I can think of offhand include Marden's and Building 19, but I think both of those are New England regional things, so those of you outside the area may not be all that enlightened by that.

--G.
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