• digger@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Yes, and JC Penny crashed and burned after switching their marketing strategy away from fake “regular prices.”

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah, I read that. New leadership felt that the eternal sales stuff was bad and changed to “everyday low prices” sort of thing thinking the customers would appreciate the transparency. Nope, the fake “on sale” works.

      It’s all over the place in sales across every industry. I think it is dumb but I am surprised someone actually got a lawsuit against it.