Word: discount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store points out that your membership rebate has been rising steadily for the past 10 years--about .1 percent a year to a whopping 9.9 percent last year. What the sign fails to point out is that a little comparison shopping around the square will get you that same discount or better, and you don't have to lend your money to the Coop for a year at no interest for the priveleage...
...course, the Coop does provide some special services like selling obscure textbooks for classes ranging from semiotics to sanskrit and custom Lesley College notebooks, but why aren't these services provided at a real discount? That is the point of a cooperative society, anyway, and other stores seem to be able to sell at lower prices than the Coop and still make a profit...
...addition to the Macintosh, the Technology Product Center also sells computers at discount prices from IBM and DEC, and is currently offering a series of seven seminars designed for novice computer users, according to Towler...
...Figaro: OVER 10 FRANCS, THE DOLLAR HAS GONE THROUGH THE CEILING. One edition of the Socialist tabloid Le Matin included a replica of a $1 bill. By buying a copy for the newsstand price of 4 francs, the newspaper proclaimed, readers could get a "dollar" at a 60% discount...
...Many discounters offer investors who own personal computers a chance to buy and sell stocks electronically without having to talk with a broker. All these investors have to do is connect their machines to a telephone and call in to the discount firm's computer. Then they can type instructions for trades on their keyboards...