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Store Promotion Codes Instead of Price Drops

Interesting business strategy I thought. As we all know a lot of companies offer some kind of price match or price beat policy in an effort to attract customers from competing businesses. For example, if someone was selling a TV for $1000 and your store was selling it for $1050 then all the person would

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Business

Waiting For Even Further Price Drops or Good Enough

So apparently the clearance sales at Blockbuster did drop further as anticipated as many stores are now selling items for up to 40% off the regular price tag. To me if you were even remotely interested in any then that is probably a good number to start buying things. There is a bit of me

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Financial Management

Saving For Better Things

I was looking at this Walmart flyer today where the store seems to be having an anniversary sale and there were some very cheap prices for grocery items. Most of it were processed foods where even though I normally wouldn’t buy too many of them the lure of things like a large bag of frozen

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Researching Drop Out Rates To Determine Investments

I was reading this tidbit that wasn’t too surprising where there was an owner of a fitness club who was saying his industry/business had a profitable model where for the most part well over 50% of its customers never end up fully using their memberships. Most people drop out say after thirty days of usage.

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Business Financial Management

Employees Getting Sales Before Customers

So as mention in my previous post Blockbuster is officially closing its doors in Canada and a lot of people are anticipating for a liquidation sale. According to press releases such as here at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2011/07/c9209.html it seems like the sales are scheduled to start on September 09, 2011 and will go on till about the

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Financial Management

If You Had Fifty Dollars For The Whole Month On Food

Today I was given a scenario where if you were only given fifty dollars for the remainder of this month would you be able to maintain a livable diet? Breaking it down it would seem crazy. With about twenty five days left in the month that would mean your budget per day would be about

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