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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Living In Areas With More Business Competition

I was talking to a person today who said that he saved a lot of money by carefully thinking which area he would live in. Apparently a big factor in deciding where to go was whether or not there was a lot of competing businesses in the area that offered goods and services to the

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Similar Sales Throughout the Season

Not surprisingly there are a ton of back to school sales going on now. Obviously this means items like writing tools and computers usually go on sale. With this in mind I was talking to be a person who mentioned that many people here often wait for the year end sales as they assume that

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Business

Negative Sale Pitches From Workers

I thought this was funny. Recently a family member told me that he bought a laptop from a store. It just so happened that not too long ago they purchased a desktop from the same place and the same sales person was assisting them. While the salesmen didn’t recognize them they definitely recognized him. The

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Business

Percentage or Dollars Off

I was looking at some sale prices for various products recently and of course this meant comparing what various companies were charging for them. One point I noticed was that for one business they displayed all of its sale prices by emphasizing how many dollars you were saving on the item. Example, saying a product

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Fourth of July

Happy 4th of July for all the American readers. I do find it interesting how even though it is a US holiday there are so many businesses here that offer sales and discounts that revolve around the occasion today. It’s almost like people just have to think of any event to attach a sale to

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Business

Hiding Prices To Get Traffic

Today I got an e-mail from a store that was having a sale of some sort. The funny thing was that their marketing ploy was to simply not list the price of the items. Instead, they use a tagline such as a “price too low to list” routine where you have to actually go to

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