Word: discounted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Come in a car, leave in a coma." So read a Nebraska bar's ad for its happy hour, that afterwork party time when saloons sell spirits at a discount. But with concern growing that happy hours may lead to driving deaths, an increasing number of states are barring barroom discounts...
...main selling point of the 76-year-old Filen's Basement is its "automatic markdown policy filen's buys overstock and irregulars form what it calls grit and glamorous stores, and then resells it at discount determined by a now famous formula. If the item sits on the rack for f12 days its initial prose will be cut by 25 percent. After six more days, the price is reduced 50 percent with in another six 75 percent. And if a piece of clothing doesn't sell by 30 days after it first hits the floor, Filen's gives...
...could a discount which looks more like a bus station than a boutique possibly be so successful...
...with any system, there are always people trying to beat the Filene's Basement system Waiting three days to come back for silk blouse might mean the discount will go from 50 to 75 percent--as long as you can make sure noone else buys it. And devising your own strategy for vouchsafing your vestments shoppers say, is half...
...DIFFICULT to discover why the Coop can't offer its members a better discount. Unlike most co-ops, it does not regularly send its members financial statements. In fact, in order to find out anything about the Coop's financial status you have to set up an appointment with the General Manager's secretary--not a surefire way to keep thousand of Coop members abreast of their society's doings...