Hastings, WTF?

I drove by Hastings this afternoon to see if their Wifi is back in operation.

It isn’t.

That means it’s been down for more than two weeks. Presumably, they are still waiting for the “part” the employee mentioned to me two weeks ago today.

Wifi is hardly brain surgery. About all they would have to do is drive a few blocks to Office Depot or Office Max and buy a wireless router, bring it back and hook it up.

It appears, then, that offering Wifi to their customers is not a priority. It would appear, also, that they haven’t noticed that business in their cafe has dropped off sharply and may not ever come back to its former levels once former Hastings Wifi users get in the habit of going elsewhere for their Internet and coffee fix – somewhere like Barnes & Noble, for instance.

I would have been in their cafe at least six times in the past two weeks, buying coffee, probably renting DVDs and maybe buying a book or a CD, if the Wifi was working. As it is, I haven’t set foot in the place and don’t plan to unless and until the Wifi is back.