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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.

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Posted by theunknownknight

Baton Rouge

Member since Sep 2005

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Posted on 5/10/24 at 10:53 am to BigBinBR

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Basically people are stupid.

Actually, it was because people were smart. They waited for the discount.

The corporations realized this, so being greedy, the lied and propped the prices up so that a “sale” would still bring them profits.

The people weren't stupid. The corporate conglomerates are evil.

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Posted by Puffoluffagus

Savannah, GA

Member since Feb 2009

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Posted on 5/10/24 at 11:22 am to BigBinBR

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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.

I can always tell when I walk into a JCP because 3/4 quarters of the store was always "on sale", based on huge signs they always had everywhere.

Mother in law used to love to shop at JCP, because of the "sales"

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Posted by thadcastle

Member since Dec 2019

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Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:48 pm to BigBinBR

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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.

My wife falls in this category