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Dodgy neighborhoods in the US are
crowded with the retail equivalent of
potholes, the $.99 store. Everything in the
store is only $.99 and looks it. They're
filled with sundries available widely,
punctuated by bizarre products apparently
purchased from liquidations of developing
nations'
flea market purveyors.
Up market neighborhoods could support
$99.00 stores where everything in the
store is $99.00. At that price, products
could be sold that had a modicum of
quality and uniqueness. It's frankly the
perfect dollar amount for customers to
find "a nice gift" for someone.
The novelty would aid marketing, and the
gift certificates / gift cards (likely
torpedoed by being valued devilishly in
increments of $104.00 instead of the
expected $99.00) would be gifts of
appropriate generosity for most occasions.
(?) $99 Furniture Store
http://the99dollarfurniturestore.com/
[pyggy potamus, Jan 05 2008]
Arguably redundant
93_20dollar_20store
For if you're just a little bit short. [hidden truths, Jan 07 2008]
The 99 cent store.
http://www.99only.com/
Where you get name brand products like "Krest Toothpate" and "Head on Shoulders" shampoo. (When you can't afford real poo.) [doctorremulac3, Jan 09 2008]
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Wouldn't "$99 Dollar Store" be pronounced
"99 dollar dollar store"? |
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Over here we have depressing places
called "Pound shops", where everything is
(coincidentally) a pound. At the present
exchange rate, this would be roughly the
equivalent of your $99 stores. |
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// At the present exchange rate // |
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Shhhhhh... they don't go outside much and look around, this will scare them...... remember, their country is ony 230 years old, just toddlers really.... |
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Oops. And here was I trying to avoid
international tension. |
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careful or we might decide to invade your country and destroy your economy and infrastructure then the exchange rate wont be so bad. |
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I would have made it the $999. Store, but
my wife would bun me to the poor house. |
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// we might decide to invade your country // |
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"And today, as UN peacekeeping troops
entered the northern quarter of the
halfbakery, tension was still high
following skirmishes between rival
fractions. UK Minister for the Inferior,
Maxwell Buchanan, said the 'bakery was
a tinderbox of wild cats waiting to
happen. |
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Meanwhile, in the southern quarter,
reconaissance photographs from the
Midlothian and Halfarse Hullaballoon
Platoon report that heavy industrial
activity around Fellatio may be a sign
that the insurgents are attempting to
produce enriched custard. Speculation
that this could be part of a weapons
program is rife, though the government
insists it is part of a peaceful civilian
traffic-control programme." |
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"careful or we might decide to invade your country and destroy your economy and infrastructure then the exchange rate wont be so bad."
...and hide your capital letters and punctuation marks except periods. |
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I was typing in the heat of passion. |
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//attempting to produce enriched custard// |
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Damn right - I can deploy custard in less than 45 minutes. |
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Although I've got to wash up first. |
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"In economic terms, the pricing strategy of dollar stores is inefficient as some items may actually be sold elsewhere for less than a dollar. However, this is balanced by the marketing efficiencies of a single price structure and consumers accept potentially overpriced items. |
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The pricing inefficiency becomes unacceptable at higher price points. Thus there are no "100 dollar stores" where all items sell for $100; consumers expect to pay the correct amount as inaccuracies result in significant dollar amounts." [from Wikipedia] |
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when i was younger, churches and schools usually had 99 cent raffle tickets for fund raising projects as a method of tax avoidance, once you sell something over the amount of Php1.00, taxes are collected automatically, i haven't seen this in a while now (probably due to inflation). |
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most $.99 stores only sell a few items that are actually 99 cents. They also sell lots of things that are 99 cents a quart, but the come in gallon bottles, or rugs that are only 99 cents a half square foot. Then they charge tax. The whole concept is a total fallacy. |
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A "$49.50 Store" would make much more
sense here. |
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Well it's always nice not to be taken too
literally. |
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I used to work for a $10 store and nicely everything was priced at $9.34 ($10 after tax). One of the great things was how fast the check outlines went and how unskilled workers could still be cashiers. Two items, $20, go. We sold a lot of irregular clothes or stuff that other stores couldn't move. I don't know how well this would work as the price raises. The main problem is inflexibility. You can't respond to price changes. The place I used to work as now sells everything for $13, but suddenly had to train people to use the registers and accept singles. I would think the inflexibility would be a deal breaker at high price points. People are lazy and may pay $1 for a a $.50 item, but few will pay $100 for a $50 item. |
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Ok, I think this *might* work *somewhere*. Where I am, aka. the heart of Illinois (nowhere), no way. |
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But how about a "$23.76 Store"? Make it really handy for people...Nice, even amounts o' money. Or maybe a "$99,000.00 Store"? |
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Or a "$99,000,000,000 Store"? Oh wait. Wal-mart. |
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There are a few "magic" price points that might work. I think $99.95 is too high, but $9.95, $14.95, $19.95, and $29.95 are all pretty common prices for infomercial products. If a product would sell for, say, $16.00, they throw in a few extra cheap screwdrivers or something to make it seem like a good deal at $19.95. |
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// we might decide to invade your country . . . If you can find it // |
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<que Chief Wigham voice> Oh that's easy, now let's see whaddid Shakespear say "this precious stone set in a silver sea". OK boys start looking for a 'Silver Sea', a Silver Sea anyone . . . damn. |
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// I was typing in the heat of passion // Why yet another great tagline, huzzah. |
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This wouldn't be very popular. 99¢ stores are popular because of the promise of cheapness and not having to worry about the pricing of things. In a $99 store, there would probably be limitations of the types of things being sold and the tediousness of noticing the prices wouldn't matter as much at such prices as $99, because they are rare and are thought about more anyway. |
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