Notes from a carmudgeonly shopkeeper

Nov 23, 2010 09:52

Okay, it's that time of year again, and I see everyone getting all into an uproar over "Black Friday ( Read more... )

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low_delta November 24 2010, 02:52:53 UTC
if an item is marked at some "low low" cost for Black Friday, that is the price it was intended to be sold for.

I'm sure there's are occasional cases of places advertising things at extremely low price, that they may even lose money on, but that would attract so many people to the stores, and nobody leaves with just one thing, so they'd still make tons of money.

So unless you just bought *that* one item, you're a sucker.

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daphnep November 24 2010, 13:45:55 UTC
It's much more rare than most people think. Unless by ''lose'' money you mean ''cover our costs with only a small margin.'' We don't deliberately put things in a store that can lose money, in the standard definition.

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low_delta November 25 2010, 04:59:39 UTC
It's much more rare than most people think.

That could be. Seems like Best Buy was forced to end their selling of CDs at below cost (if that was really happening at all). The idea was that they'd bring people in to buy music, and they'd also buy iPods, big screen TVs, computers and washing machines.

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