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Using Sales Events To Understand Store Markups Better

So today there is the Singles Day savings event on sites such as Aliexpress. This year I decided not to shop with them due to my past experience or to get anything for the day in general, but that didn’t stop me from looking at the prices. In many ways, I think you need to

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Business

Inventing Your Own Holidays And Events To Generate Sales

For a lot of people here, November the 11th means Remembrance Day as we take the time to thank those who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. In China though, people are gearing up for what is known as “Single’s Day” which is supposed to be China’s anti-Valentine’s Day. This is celebrated by stores

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Financial Management

Interesting To See if People Can Learn From Other’s Financial Experiences

Recently this year the 4th annual welfare food challenge took place with mostly new participants. As you all remember, last year I did it where the stipulation was you only had $21 for the week to spend on food and I ended up with $2.32 left still. https://al6400.com/blog/bc-welfare-food-challenge-21-week-part-one/ I personally did not starve as an

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Using Targeted Coupon Offers For New Products or Not

For one supermarket I was given a lot of digital coupons to buy what appears to be a new product in the store. Obviously the company felt I would be interested in it where this would be a good extra nudge to make a purchase. The retail price itself seemed kind of expensive where even

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Purchasing Habits With Items That May Cause Cancer

There was a lot of news today on how The World Health Organization has declared popular food items such as bacon and sausage as a possible link to cancer. It seemed to deal with processed red meat overall too. This kind of reminded me on how when I was down in California it seemed like

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Financial Management

Staying Frugal Even With Free Money Offers

So today I brought some family members to take advantage of the grocery coupon which was if you spent $50 you could get $10 back in points. So essentially a 20% savings. Now regardless of this most of us were still carefully looking at the prices to make sure we were buying good deals. For

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