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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: USA Election
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:10:23 +1100
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Your Name wrote on 21/11/24 8:26 am:
> On 2024-11-20 10:27:21 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>
>>> We've just gotten over "Black Friday" .... Even though the
>>> 13th wasn't a Friday!!
>>
>> Er... "Black Friday" is the 29th November... so it's not over
>> yet.
> 
> "Black Friday" goes all month (if not longer). There are signs for one 
> business near here which say "Black Friday sale all month".  :-\
> 
> Some stores have already had a "This is not Black Friday Sale", and now 
> started having their "Black Friday Sale" on Wednesday and will go 
> through to Sunday, when they'll then have their "Cyber Monday Sale" for 
> a week. Then it wil be the "pre-Christmas Sale", the "Christmas Sale", 
> the "Boxing Day Sale", the "New Year Sale", ...
> 
>> Which means there's plenty of bargains to be had...
> 
> With pretty much every store having near-continuous sales, there are 
> very few real bargains. It's mostly just the same old everyday price 
> they've had for the rest of the year - they claim you're saving 20%, but 
> that's off the manufacturer's original recommended retail price, which 
> the store has never sold it for anyway, even when the product was newly 
> released and hasn't been sitting on store shelves for 18 months already.
> 
Here, our two largest Supermarket chains (something like 75-80% of sales 
between them) have been under "investigation" for shonky promotions .... 
like selling a product, for example, that was, last month, $5 but the 
last couple of weeks was $8, but, this week, is only $4 *A 50% REDUCTION* .

Lies!! Damned Lies!! And Statistics!!
-- 
Daniel