Snow White 77
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Jun 24, 2010
there was a rumor for new discounts happening around April 11th but that has come and gone. Any new rumors?
there was a rumor for new discounts happening around April 11th but that has come and gone. Any new rumors?
Anything is possible and I'd never say never gonna happen but I put this at about a .00001% chance.I would imagine that unless the economy tanks before then, we won't see many, if any additional discounts for U.S. residents for the next couple of years.
Anything is possible and I'd never say never gonna happen but I put this at about a .00001% chance.
For better or worse they have conditioned their guest to a discount. There is an avg of 7 days a year without one for any recent history. If they stop abruptly like you suggest, I don't think a change in economy will be what makes things change for them
GE won't be THAT big a draw for THAT long
True. And it never stopped discounts. Not that it was ever expected to do so or expected to draw anywhere close to the same crowds.I sure hope not, but look at Pandora. Still pretty busy with long lines most of the time for FoP.
People like discounts. Increase room rates by 20%. A few weeks later introduce a 10% discount.
Funny how often folks bring that up.Yepper, just like shopping at Kohls. Pricing is crazy to start with, but show 30% off and people are tearing up the racks for a "discount" and collecting those Kohl's bucks they never use thinking they are getting a bargain when in truth they are still paying more than regular price.
Except that isn't what actually happened. They marked everything at the full MSRP, which is the insane starting point. I bought Jeans from JCP my whole life, could always get them for around $35. When they decided to stop doing "sales" my same jeans cost $60, which was the full MSRP, I went down to Macy's and got them for $40. This seemed to be the case on just about everything I looked at there during that time. The CEO was trying to make them a premium product with a premium price, not get rid of the fake sales and just have a lower price.Funny how often folks bring that up.
Remember when Penney's tried to cut out the whole, discount/real price/discount cycle and just give you a real price that was lower and not offer the "discounts" anymore? Instead of marking something with a retail price of $40 and putting a sale sign on it for $25 they just put a retail price on the items for $25. No sales. People stopped going. They couldn't comprehend that they were getting the items at the same price as they did with the sale/coupon. The shopping public is just too conditioned to have to have that sale, that coupon, that discount, even if it's not truly anything off the retail price. It's all in the perception.