Hurrah for absurdity and Camus!

However:

simple spelling error: "perusing"

Some of the lines were a little ho-hum, as well.

e.g.

(insert any situation of your liking).

1) you can't remember with whom you made the original purchase agreement;

Why not just "You can't remember where you bought it"?  The whom especially makes the line sound very stilted and it's rather long in any case.

It's too bad you can't take your life to the check-out counter
and demand a cash refund.
However:

"However" sticks out here.  There's nothing really to however, due to the structure of the preceeding two lines.  Maybe changing from "it's too bad you can't" to "You'd like to" or something similar like that?  Or you could change "However" to something more like "After all"

Keep on keepin' on!

Hello Michael, I rather liked this. What I would change is not necessarily what you would like to change, but the sentence in brackets doesn't quite work, even though I know what you are trying to say there.

My only real beef is with the last lines:

1) you can't remember who you bought it from; and
2) you threw out your bill of sale long ago.
So you are stuck only with store credit
and you go back to the bargain aisle
with no way of ever leaving the store.

I'd leave out the numbers. I am sure you can find a way to re-word the lines to accommodate the order. For example (something like - only better):

Because you can't remember where you bought it,

and then you threw out your bill of sale long ago.

Also, always check for duplications and use different words - in line three you have store, and then again (far too soon) in the last one.

The last line is the one which for me simply doesn't work in content. We DO have a way out. It's going back to the factory, or the junk yard, or the recycling point ...

Critique:

I like the use of enjambment here, it provides a kind of stiltedness to the lines that really works aesthetically, especially when considering the Existentialist bent of Camus, and how that is reflected here.  At first the line “(insert situation of your liking)” hit me off-guard, but on the third reading I had a gestalt and understood its meaning and now it’s my favorite line in the whole poem.  It supplies that kick of Existentialism, that choosing your own path, that Camus so wonderfully evoked in “The Stranger,” as well as his other works.  However, I’m struck by the ending of the poem, the feeling of meaninglessness that the final lines evoke, and wonder if this is what you were trying for.  Existentialism is, of course, not a hopeless or hollow philosophy, but rather a stoic one, so is the ending really appropriate?  Just something to think about.

On the line level, there are a few things that concern me, some phrasings that seem overly clunky, and a few conceptual problems.  A question first, though?  Is the poem supposed to take place far in the past, like the 1940s (around the time Camus was writing)?  I only ask because the inclusion of the Five and Dime is problematic from a reading angle, since I wouldn’t assume any younger readers would be familiar with the concept.  There’s a poetic quality to the Five and Dime that out-classes the Dollar Store and similar analogous modern institutions, but it’s something worth considering.  On the line level, I’ll go line by line with the ones I think are problematic:

“one of those new pointless inventions you see” – this doesn’t work for me because a Five and Dime is really never a place where you find new inventions or innovations of any kind.

“It catches your eye” – this seems a little too clichéd for my tastes, and clichéd language really only serves a purpose when it works on multiple levels.

“and then you realize that Technology” – I don’t like the capitalization of Technology.  It rings a little too hollow, like you’re elevating it to the level of a religion, but it isn’t justified, I don’t think.

“pointless needs enraptured by pointless contraptions: / cheap convenience.” – first, I don’t think the colon is appropriate.  Also, I think the use of the word “enraptured” is unwarranted, and I don’t think it fits within the context.

“After all:” – again, the colon doesn’t work for me.  I do like the numbers that follow, though, as they feel like the “points” that are raised by philosophers, and feel quite like them in phrasing as well.

“and you go back to the bargain aisle / with no way of ever leaving the store” – I object to this, not on the basis of the line level (which I think is quite good), but on the basis that it doesn’t seem to jibe with the philosophical underpinnings of the beginning of the poem.  I’d consider changing it for unity’s sake.

That’s about all I have to say about this poem.  It’s actually quite good on the line level.  The lines cut two ways quite often, and the word choice works well in the same way.  Hope you work on it, and work hard on revision.  I’d be interested in seeing a future draft!