Word: overstocks
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...sorry, sir," the waitress said. "But we stopped making that flavor about 10 or 12 years ago. We had a huge overstock of that stuff back then, and it all rotted...
...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...
Many Harvard families have purchased their books from the Harvard Bookstore for generations-the Saltonstalls '01, Lodges '02, Lamonts '03, and even Harry Elkins Widener '04. One branch sells publishers' overstock and used paperbacks, the other the latest hardcovers and high-quality paperbacks...
...nation's wealthiest individuals and corporations. However, if the league actually cares about retaining the less wealthy owners they can initiate measures to redistribute income, such as increasing the gate share allotted to visiting teams. If teams profit from each other's success, they will be less likely to overstock their roster with talent to the detriment of other league franchises...