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Originally Posted by Yakk
Working out what 1 cent of gas price on a tank works out to is useful. It makes you realize you should go to the less busy of the two gas stations on the corner sometimes. 
Of course, in town there is "the most expensive gas station" on one of the high-class roads. I went there once (my tank was getting close to empty, and I didn't plan ahead) -- full service, and the full service costs 10% more than anywhere else. But you get rather skilled and personable workers -- while I was there, someone dropped off a box of donuts for the gas station crew. (Island Park in Ottawa, if curious)
In at least some juristictions, perma-sales are illegal. At least some fraction (I forgot if it was case law or legislation) of the time, the good must be availiable to be bought and not-on-sale.
The trick to avoid this is, of course, have 3 products that are pretty close to identical, and rotate which is on sale. This generates an additional benefit -- people who are not price sensative pick which of the 3 products they prefer, and ignore the 50% off. (ie, 3 sets of towels with different weave patterns/sizes/colours)
Dawg, note that I don't want to be called 'hon' by wait staff. It annoys me. So do the little smiley faces on the bills. Note that I'm anomolous -- last I checked, a female putting the smiley face on gets more tips -- but that kind of reaction might explain the lower tips for the 'hon' lady. Either that, or you are prettier.  |
Considering that she was 64 to my 45, prettier would be probably be a logical guess, but not really a reason to get better treatment from the people you're waiting on, specially when everything else in terms of professionalism, experience, etc., come into play.
There have been reports on news magazines in the past though, pitting average or homely people against attractive, with the attractive ones always coming out on top.
I don't know if NJ has laws about 'perma-sales', but we do get our sales information and setups from corporate, located in Wisconsin. Kohl's has a unique way of doing things: general sales go from Sunday-Saturday, then they have 4-day specials that can run anytime from Tuesday to Saturday or Thursday to Sunday. Add to that their 'Seniors Days' and the cardholders' mailings, plus instore cardholder percentage off specials and it becomes a labyrinth of pricing. If they took items and didn't have them on sale for even one day a month, they'd be bypassing any perma-sale laws. Customers come in expecting us to immediately know what's on sale and for how much-something impossible to do the ways things are set up.