• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    A friend of mine was a manager at a fairly upscale women’s clothing store.

    She said that even at 95% discounts, they could turn a profit.

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      In Belgium we have a law stating that no commerce can ever sell at a loss. Yet we still see 70% discounts, in stores for every budget range.

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        Yet we still see 70% discounts, in stores for every budget range.

        I bet those stores also claim that prices need to go up “because of inflation”. Fraudsters.

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        That’s interesting. Why is that? I used to own a local retail spot and sometimes just to make space or whatever, we would sell things at a loss. It sucked, but it was better than never moving it.

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      Aren’t the MSRP tags ordered by the store as a separate item to trick you into thinking the prices are legitimately that high?

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      My store is interesting, I work in a Mar*ials, its an “odd lots” for clothes. no disrespect but I like to buy from there occasionally and had a 20$ blanket and 20$ dress go to tatters in days. Most customers return items verry often