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When I worked at an Albertson's subsidiary store, there was a bunch of stuff that was "on sale" 3 out of every 4 weeks, but the "sale" price was the real price
by rhino369 4y ago
When I worked at an Albertson's subsidiary store, there was a bunch of stuff that was "on sale" 3 out of every 4 weeks, but the "sale" price was the real price and you'd just get ripped off the 4th week.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThe crazy part is a good portion of the population prefers feeling like they got a deal because something is “on sale” rather than just paying a lower non sale price. See JC Penney’s disastrous experiment with removing sales/coupons and just offering low prices.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoHarbor Freight is going through a variation of this now. They used to be famous for their coupons that were so easy to obtain that the shelf price might as well have been the coupon price. Changing over to just having the shelf price be the true price has been poorly received by a good chunk of regular shoppers there, even though what they really did was get rid of the ceremonial dead chicken waiving of using coupons. Haven't checked recently but I think they've started reintroducing coupons because people loved feeling like they were getting a special deal even if they weren't.