We get this all the time at my work because our signs for major sales say UP TO 50% (or whatever the percentage may be.) When I first started the "up to" was fairly small but now corp. has made them easier to see. It never fails though. At least twice a sale you'll hear the cries of "how deceiving!! You're trying to cheat me!". And of course they never want to tell corp. how much they hate it. Then something might actually change!
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Quoth Spork4pedro View PostWe get this all the time at my work because our signs for major sales say UP TO 50% (or whatever the percentage may be.) When I first started the "up to" was fairly small but now corp. has made them easier to see. It never fails though. At least twice a sale you'll hear the cries of "how deceiving!! You're trying to cheat me!". And of course they never want to tell corp. how much they hate it. Then something might actually change!
A) I actually agreed it was deliberately deceptive
B) Notwithstanding, all it took to figure this out would be to actually READ the ad
C) that the practice did actually achieve its goal; ie, you're HERE in the store.
D) I wished the head office would cease and desist that particular practice
E) Telling me how 'unfair' it is was totally pointless, because the high-up muckety-mucks don't listen to the wage slaves in the front-line trenches.
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Quoth CyberLurch View PostThe sadistic little goobers who wrote our ad copy were enamored with the expressions 'From' and 'Starting At".Replace anger management with stupidity management.
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Quoth CyberLurch View PostI hated that when I worked retail; in fact, I hate it to this very day. The sadistic little goobers who wrote our ad copy were enamored with the expressions 'From' and 'Starting At". 'From $19.99'. 'Starting at $19.99'. They'd pick the lowest-priced example in the product line and that would be the price they'd plaster all over that ad copy. Invariably, the guy with Mercedes-Benz or Cadillac would think a new starter for his car was just $19.99 - and would be shocked to learn that the real price was well into three digits. Invariably, there'd be the rant about 'deceptive advertising' until I'd point out that:
A) I actually agreed it was deliberately deceptive
B) Notwithstanding, all it took to figure this out would be to actually READ the ad
C) that the practice did actually achieve its goal; ie, you're HERE in the store.
D) I wished the head office would cease and desist that particular practice
E) Telling me how 'unfair' it is was totally pointless, because the high-up muckety-mucks don't listen to the wage slaves in the front-line trenches.
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Quoth eltf177 View PostAt this point I would BEG the SC to contact corporate and complain since that's where the blame lies. But of course they'd rather yell at the peons who had absolutely NO say in any of this...
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Quoth CyberLurch View PostActually, I was thinking something like this:
50 percent off
ALL BLUE HATS.
Ah, who am I kidding? They'd still ignore it and/or whine about it."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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At the arcade my hubs worked at when we were dating, the manager threatened to install a huge sign at the open of the arcade. It would be as wide as the opening, just long enough that most people would hit their nose on it, painted in neon, have flashing lights, and blared, "NO FOOD OR DRINK ALLOWED IN ARCADE."
I told her she'd need a special machine that would suck the food and drinks out of their hands once they passed the thresh-hold, because the SCs aren't going to pay attention to anything other than themselves.
Same goes for the "NO SWEARING" sign too. They had two guys who would spend MONTHS banned from the arcade, because they refused to stop swearing.. and beating the machines with their fists, but mostly the swearing. I got one of them outside the arcade and said, "Damn it, you stupid ass, you keep getting banned from the arcade, so why do you keep f@cking swearing?!"* He looked stunned, but to quote a cousin, "it didn't learn him nothing."
*for the record, I didn't work there.. but the manager used me as a plain clothes and occasionally threw in free games for the effort.If I make no sense, I apologize. I'm constantly interrupted by an actual toddler.
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