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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-30-08 01:05 AM
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14. People know those big sales are SUCKER BAIT
and that there are very few items on sale and the circular is meant to get them into the store to buy something more expensive.

Most states specify the number of sale items the store has. That number is always far below any projected demand. Rain checks also have to be offered and honored, but stores make sure delivery of replacement items doesn't happen until after the holidays. Most people will have given up or bought something else for the kiddies to open Xmas morning.

The fact that those sales are SUCKER BAIT makes the proposed suckers line up for hours to try to be the first through the door so that they can sprint to get one of the items on sale. That's the recipe for disaster, right there.

If stores would stop playing us for suckers and put only items they have IN STOCK in sufficient quantity on sale, the craziness of the store stampede would stop. You'd think stores would try to sell off inventory they have a lot of, but no, they play the sucker bait game on something glitzy.

WalMart isn't the only store that does this, but they're the one who got someone killed this year because of it.

The madness has to be stopped. Suckers will be out there no matter what they put on sale.
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