- 1. Re: [Mgs] Totally off topic but funny (score: 1)
- Author: David Breneman <david_breneman@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:55:18 -0800 (PST)
- Well, your real enemy isn't the poor clerk, but Mr. James Cash Penney (real name) who popularized this pricing strategy in his stores in 1902. He must have been on to something, because JC Penney is
- /html/mgs/2007-12/msg00222.html (7,654 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Mgs] Totally off topic but funny (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:10:38 -0800
- You do realize that the clerk who you are tormenting is not the one that set the prices. It is obvious that you have never worked at a retail store, or you would not do such a thing to someone that i
- /html/mgs/2007-12/msg00224.html (9,405 bytes)
- 3. Re: [Mgs] Totally off topic but funny (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:24:55 -0500
- There is another explanation for this less-than-even dollar pricing, one I read in Invention & Technology magazine, I believe. This story said that in the early days of cash registers, when customers
- /html/mgs/2007-12/msg00226.html (9,299 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Mgs] Totally off topic but funny (score: 1)
- Author: dave@camptownshakers.com
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:25:55 -0800 (PST)
- So let me see if I understand, you find your fun in picking on minimum wage clothing store employees who would probably love to tell you where to shove the 99 cents but need the job? ________________
- /html/mgs/2007-12/msg00227.html (9,766 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Mgs] Totally off topic but funny (score: 1)
- Author: Barrie Robinson <barrie@look.ca>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:28:25 -0500
- So let me see - You assume the clerk is maudlin idiot just because he was working there? Are you suggesting that I, as a poorly paid worker in pre-University days, did not have gumption to tell manag
- /html/mgs/2007-12/msg00231.html (9,849 bytes)
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