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Skriven 2014-11-26 23:08:00 av Dave Smith
     Kommentar till en text av Ed Pawlowski
Ärende: Re: OT: Black Friday nonsense
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On 2014-11-26 22:47, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> The idea is to get you into the store to buy other merchandise too.  The
> deals are also deals from the manufacturer too.  Plenty of free
> publicity help too.  Sometimes stripped down models made to sell at a
> low price.
>
> If it was not profitable, they would not do it.
>
>

In some cases they do it because the competition is doing it. Stores
used to be closed here on Sundays. Most of our population lives in the
south and close to the US border, and when stores in NY state were open
on Sundays and offering cheaper prices a lot of people were heading over
there every weekend to look for bargains. Merchants lobbied the
government to allow them to open on Sundays because they were losing
customers and money to NY stores.  The US Black Friday stores forced the
locals to offer Good Friday sales for the same reason.

It is not just a matter of the money that may or may not be lost on
those sale deals but the issue of shopping habits. Malls and shopping
districts count on people making a habit of shopping in their stores.

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