Word: discount
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most Harvardians like to buy what they can at the Harvard Cooperative Society because of the ten per cent discount allowed on cash purchases by members. (It costs $1 to belong.) The discount makes it pay to purchase many standard items there. The enthusiastic summer student can "veritas" himself to death from tee shirts to sweatshirts to martini glasses and bathmats. They still have a good selection of marked down bermudas ($4-$8) and summer sports shirts...
Women should look first for their cosmetics at the Coop. Although the selection is limited to Eve Arden, Revlon, and Helena Rubenstein, it helps to get some things there for the discount. The best place in the Square for cosmotics, however, is the Brattle Pharmacy, 41a Brattle St. Knowledgeable clerks show complete lines of everything, and beauty consultants from various manufacturers make occasional visits. Conveniently located College House Pharmacy has lots of perfume and gum, and cashes checks...
...list prices mean little in discount houses, and even retail outlets have begun to crack color TV's long-held "$400 barrier." Sears, Roebuck recently reduced its 21-in. Silvertone sets from $449 to $388 and is selling them for as low as $365 in the hotly competitive Buffalo area. So far this year, Admiral has cut some prices by $95 (to a low of $399.95) and trimmed its charge for a year's service on color sets from $100 to $69.95, while quality-conscious Zenith has pared its lowest prices...
...Courtesy Club's card entitles a holder only to pay cash. But when a holder presents it at any of the 2,500 participating restaurants, hotels, motels and resorts in 42 states, he gets a 10% discount...
...restaurant and hotel men like the system because it spares them the bookkeeping involved in credit cards, and because the 10% discount is simply equivalent to their costs and kickbacks to the credit-card companies. The club claims about 400,000 members-all of whom obviously intend to spend more than $100 a year, since Courtesy Club dues...