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For every purchase under $20, the store gives you half off of your bill if you can identify a significant event in world history that occurred in the year idenitfied by the total of your bill.
A wise customer might endeavor to ensure the bill comes to $14.92 or $10.66, but that could be difficult,
especially in areas with sales tax - which would be a math exercize in itself.
The clerk could quickly google your event to verify - if you get it right, you might even try to find an event for the new price for an additional half off - and so on.
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"Those bottles of whisky at $19.45 are selling well this week!" |
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[hippo] - they'll just set the price at $19.98. Nothing happened in 1998. |
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Yes - that's true. The supermarket should also give you special money-off vouchers if your checkout bill is a prime number, or a member of the Fibonacci series, or an integer power of the supermarket's "Number of the Day". |
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Love it ! I thought I was the only one that thought like this when I get change. |
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i don't like to be challenged when i'm checking out, but i bunned it because it reminds me of something my mother would do and love. |
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Here's your checkout history question:
- How many pints of ice cream were purchased here last week? |
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Kmart could have a whole ceiling of blue effect lights that randomly go off and those with a certain amount of points enter a blue light challenge |
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I just came from the grocery store, and my bill came to $10.66. Needless to say, I was thrilled. I wasn't even trying. Here's the bill: |
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Hungry Man Frozen Lasagne Dinner: $2.50
Box of Ginger Snaps: $2.99
6-pack of Shasta Cherry Cola: $1.50
Vaseline Petroleum Jelly: $2.29
Box of Mentos: $1.09 |
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The Mentos were a total impulse buy, and they did it for me. Yay! The checkout lady wouldn't give me the half off, though. But it's OK, the victory was its own reward. |
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globaltourniquet, maybe she just knew when the Magna Carta was signed. You should try again next week. |
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Your grocery bill sounds like you had a real party of an evening! |
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At first I was going to bone this idea because I thought it would be too easy to win the discount - the store would lose money hand over fist. |
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Maybe I was wrong about that. |
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$10.66, $12.15, what's the difference, after all? |
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When I say "Magna Carta", I always mean "Battle of Hastings". Most people forget that. |
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How significant is significant? |
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yea, it's not like cellphones have things like calculators and Google on them or nuthin'... |
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"Management reserves the right to add/subtract a random number... and what are those wires coming off those sunglasses for, young man ?" |
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[ ] It has to be balanced: a couple bucks off if you're right and a couple bucks on if you're wrong, and History shouldn't be the only category. Or just a roll of the (house) dice. |
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I thought you were going to quiz the person on their own purchasing history, or maybe on the exact price of something in their cart, a-la "Price is Right". :) |
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