I've come to the conclusion that every item at Bed, Bath and Beyond must be marked up 20%.
Week in and week out, my mailbox is flooded with "20% off any item in the store!" coupons from Bed, Bath and Beyond. (And I understand that it's my using them, with my mailing address printed on them, that keeps them coming.) I mean, I'm talking tons of these things. There are more of these coupons coming at me than Oreos at a fat man.
So I can only conclude that B3 is assuming everybody's going to be taking 20% off of anything they ever buy there. And thus, the prices must all come pre-marked up to account for the eventual "mark down."
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those constant coupons are a double-edged sword. if I need something from B3 and DON'T have a %20 off coupon, I will grumble and go somewhere else. Quiznos and Subway have the same problem. I might go to Subway more often if they just lowered their prices rather than give me two coupons a month.
the mole
I noticed this same thing when I was car shopping at one point. I would go to Burt and Autonation and the car I was looking at was $8000 without any trade ins or discounts.
But Medved, the home of the "Push Pull Drag and get $3000 trade in" was different. That car that was $8000 everywhere else was $11000 at their place. That $3000 trade in you were so excited about would bring the price back down to where everyone else already was.
Eeeeeyyyeah. How about if I just skip that whole step of illusion and go to the place with the low price to begin with?
Amazing what you find when you shop around...
Wouldn't the mark-up have to be 25% in order for the 20% discount to return you to "normal"?
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