You didn’t buy enough presents this Christmas. The shop shelves are still stacked high. The Commercial Devils will devise methods to clear – yes, that’s the word they use, as if it’s rubbish – the excess through Reduction Sales. Mind you, they are capitalists. They wouldn’t let prices plummet below the profit line. Post-reduction profit suggests they were twice ripping you off raw at Christmastime. What the Sales fail to clear would be rebranded – chocolate, flowers, wine, some soft toys, fragrances – and merchandized to you with guile on Valentine’s Day. The media will be guilty by association – their loot from the heist is advertising money. Discover the pattern for yourself. December to February is just one colossal commercial con!
:) Thinking of the massive rip-off that Christmas sales is makes me want to keep my money in the bank. Alas, we do have obligations.
ReplyDeleteI buy when i need and not wait for "sales"....thus i avoid anything tagged as sales. Total rip-off they are!
ReplyDeleteMy brother, you are in the wrong profession! Let's quit the "I-put-it-to-you" and let's go rip people off! Ha!
ReplyDeleteKissi, I think I will join you...looks like ripping people off is easier than telling them to pay legal fees.
ReplyDeleteNana, I know right? people now have christmas not with family and children or siblings but outside somewhere. Commercial is what it has become. Which is why i'd say to anyone, buy a book for whoever expects you to give them a gift. Period!
ReplyDelete@ Baafoo - Maybe we can agree to limit expenses to the minimal obligations?
ReplyDelete@ Kwame - I'd say the sales are worth it if you really need what they have, and not just that you want to buy stuff because their prices are reduced.
@ Kissi - Kiz man, so we open a departmental store?
@ Nana Yaw Sarpong - We are alike in many ways, for I also usually give presents only in books.
Most buy because the prices are "reduced".
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