Paint your luggage (or just travel with storage containers instead)

While the basic decor -- plain walls with a black stripe and vertical category markers) is basically the same as along the back wall, I feel like (and the general consensus seems to be that) the right side wall of this store has a much different (and better) feel to it. There are a few reasons I can see for that -- first, and most obviously, the wall is not plain white, instead being a very nice light teal color; and second, the category markers are somewhat more densely placed, so there's less blank wall space in between them. This is over in the mystery alcove, where there's a real hodgepodge of departments -- visible here is a single half-aisle of luggage, crammed in between plastic storage bins and the wood finishes section. 

The mental image of using storage containers as luggage reminded me of one of the things I always found funny (and/or bizarre) traveling as a kid -- all of the people who apparently checked cardboard boxes rather then luggage. Not "cardboard luggage", which is all I got just now when looking it up (and which I don't think I've ever seen!), just normal cardboard boxes. I still wonder why that was such a common thing -- and I wonder whether it still is.