Word: overstocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paperback Booksmith follow the same pricing policy as the Coop: they sell at list price. But the two WordsWorth shops offer significant discounts. The Harvard Square outlet gives 10 percent off on paperbacks and 15 percent off on non-textbook hardcovers. The Central Square branch, which sells mostly publishers' overstock, gives a 50 percent discount on all prices...
Even General Motors, a symbol of the state's traditional pride as well as its current problems, resorted to gimmickry in an attempt to sell an overstock of houses owned by transferred employees. GM offered to give each buyer of a home another longtime American dream, a new car free of charge. The company sold 46 homes in metropolitan Detroit. But every buyer in these tight-money times turned down the car-and took a cash discount instead...