Originally Posted by
Whoopdido1980
This the the epitome of what's wrong with the US's economy. We'll never fully recover if consumers always refuse to pay full price. How can a business survive if they constantly take a 20% hit to their revenue?
In the past, businesses would offer discounts during off times. Monday nights or weekdays from 2-4 or whatever. Now people expect discounts all the time even on weekends. How can we ever recover with that mindset? A vault of gold doesn't cost $80. It costs $100. Every now and then they do us a favor and reduce the cost to $80. You seem to expect it to always be $80. It's that same mindset that expects drinks to be at happy hour prices at 9 pm on. Saturday and for movie tickets to be at matinee prices all the time. When did this thinking start and when will it end?