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Do yall remember when something being "On Sale" actually meant something?
Posted on 5/10/24 at 10:48 am
Posted on 5/10/24 at 10:48 am
When I was a kid a "Sale" actually mean there was a discount...and it was for a specified time or until sold out....today everything is always on "Sale" with standard 10%-20+% offered all the time.
Anyway, yall nerds can GFYS
Anyway, yall nerds can GFYS
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Posted on 5/10/24 at 10:50 am to sidewalkside
Now they prop the prices up 300% and then put it on sale for 200% price
Posted on 5/10/24 at 10:50 am to sidewalkside
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When I was a kid a "Sale" actually mean there was a discount...and it was for a specified time or until sold out....today everything is always on "Sale" with standard 10%-20+% offered all the time. Anyway, yall nerds can GFYS
JC Penny actually changed their pricing a few years back to what those “sale” prices were. Their sales actually went down. They went back to the old pricing and then having it on “sale” and sales went back up.
Basically people are stupid.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 10:52 am to sidewalkside
Local furniture store had a "$5,000,000 liquidation sale" but all the prices were written with a big slash through them and a new price of 50% off. When I go the manufacturer's website the "sale price" is the same as the price online. 
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:21 am to sidewalkside
Kohls is infamous for “sales”
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:22 am to sidewalkside
On sale for regular price. Where you been
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:31 am to sidewalkside
"On sale" means "for sale."
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:37 am to sidewalkside
Can’t imagine my life being so dull that I contemplate sales.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:40 am to sidewalkside
I hate it when a venue says “tickets will go on sale Friday at 10 am.” It’s not like you’re getting a deal because those tickets stay the same price weeks later if they’re still available.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:47 am to sidewalkside
Brookshire's has cooked beef tips for $8.99 each. THen, when the "buy one, get a second for a penny" sale, they yank the price up to 12.99 so you get 2 for $13 instead of what should be 2 for $9.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:57 am to sidewalkside
Yep. Nothing is really on sale anymore
Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:58 am to sidewalkside
Used to be 4x 12 pack of coke was $10. Saw it was on sale other day buy 2 at 8.99 get 1 free…
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:38 pm to sidewalkside
Umm
This post was edited on 5/15/24 at 8:23 am
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:29 pm to sidewalkside
Abour a decade ago we were interested in a leather sofa. The price was a thousand more than we wanted to spend.
The company had a going out of business sale with a 40% off everything in the store. Yep, they still had 'our' sofa, and the price was different, so much higher that the new price, reduced 40%, was $50 more than it had been.
The company had a going out of business sale with a 40% off everything in the store. Yep, they still had 'our' sofa, and the price was different, so much higher that the new price, reduced 40%, was $50 more than it had been.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:13 pm to sidewalkside
quote:
remember when something being "On Sale" actually meant something?
Retail history is defined by deceptive pricing / fake sales. Anchor pricing, false reference pricing (Kohl's MO), fake sense of urgency (buy now or miss out) are part of psychology of sales.
Been going on forever. Black Friday, particularly, is a huge scam.
Nothing new under the sun...
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:47 pm to sidewalkside
We don’t mark it up just to mark it down and call it a sale
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:55 pm to sidewalkside
Yeah the grocery stores run a sale every time a product price rises... Walmart rollback deal's actually are sales... only because Walmart has too many of whatever in inventory
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:57 pm to sidewalkside
Do you even jewelry store?
Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:02 am to sidewalkside
When I was a kid--early 80s-- my grandpaw was friends with a guy that owned a small store in town that somd everything from fresh cut meat to material for making clothes.
He told my grandpaw one day while we were there that all he had to do was write SALE on something and it would sell as fast as he could mark it.
But back then it was actually on sale.
He told my grandpaw one day while we were there that all he had to do was write SALE on something and it would sell as fast as he could mark it.
But back then it was actually on sale.
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