Shoppers Camp Out for 99-Cent TV Offer

Some people are going to great lengths to buy a new 19-inch color television for 99 cents.

A group has been camping out since Sunday in front of the soon-to-open 99 Cent Store at Springdale Street and Edinger Avenue.

“We look like a bunch of homeless people,” said Therese Sliter of Garden Grove, who set up camp Monday to await the store’s opening Thursday morning.

The first nine customers in line will be able to buy a color TV for 99 cents. The next nine shoppers may buy a microwave oven for the same.

“I don’t even need a TV. It’s just something different. I’m doing it for the fun of it,” said Sliter, who came prepared with blankets, folding chair, four thermos bottles filled with flavored coffees, cards and books on tape.

But most of the 10 people in line Tuesday afternoon said they don’t have a television.

George Sianez, 62, of Westminster, who is unemployed, said this is “the only way I’ll get a TV.”