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I've been living in Thailand for a while now and the market is so unregulated and abused by these sorts of deals. A big super market near my house runs 2for1 b
by kabacha 8y ago
I've been living in Thailand for a while now and the market is so unregulated and abused by these sorts of deals.
A big super market near my house runs 2for1 buns every day for the past year.
I've got desensitised to the point where I don't even see the "original price" anymore. The deal price is just the real and only price.
The only real deals are the "almost expiring" price reductions super markets put out before throwing out old food.
I wonder if in the grand scale of things this abuse backfires or I'm just a rare case as a foreigner.
- nickjj 8y agoAre regulations supposed to stop that behavior? There's plenty of grocery stores in NY that continuously run the same "special" on the same items. I've seen the same hot dogs on sale for the same price for a year.
- vxNsr 8y agoYes, there are laws about how long a sale can be, if a product is on sale for a significant amount of time the seller has to make that price the actual price and cannot advertise it as "on sale." Likely those stores run afoul of this law but are too small to be prosecuted by the DA/FTC.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoI don’t know if they are legit, but I was shocked by the number of furniture “liquidation” sales when I first moved to Southern California. It seemed every furniture store was closing and selling off inventory. After living in one area for a while it became clear liquidation was just a means of selling crap and reopening under a different name.