Smithsonian Gift Shops: "Those Crystal Gardens Ain't Gonna Buy Themselves, You Know"

Are you the type of person who, over the weekend, thinks to yourself, “I could do some shopping. I wonder if there’s anything new at the museum gift shop?” If you aren’t, the Smithsonian really wish you’d change. So says an interesting story that popped up on American Public Media‘s Marketplace yesterday, saying that the gift shops in this famous string of museums aren’t making any money due to things like poor placement, bad displays and lack of stock.