We use them for "poker chips" for Family Poker Night. I use Hershey's Nuggets as worth 5 of the mini candies. I used to use M&M's for 1's, but too much handling--people got icked out by them. So, I use the wrapped minis instead. I think my kids like the candy, better than the poker, but I've been playing poker since I could hold a hand of cards, so it's a family tradition.it's almost the time of year i start eyeballing walmart for miniture foods. i love the halloween treat size bags of chocolate covered pretzles, cheese puffs, fruit treats and such. i don't care if frankenstein is on the packaging-i stock up for the year
Companies can’t stay in business and provide jobs if they don’t make a profit. And most retail stores only make about 5% profit a year not mega billions like Apple or Google.
5% of a big number is still billions of dollars.
Same here in California. Not sure how they handled that with the stores that used to be open 24 hours.
Everything is LED now in the freezer cases, not sure if turning them on and off impacts their life or not. I do remember during the energy crisis seeing downtown office buildings with fluorescent lights leaving them on at night during the week, and off on the weekend only because the power needed to operate the ballast to turn them on was greater than the power used to leave them on overnight.
I agree the outrage is fake, but I'll point out that your examples all have one thing in common: They're marketed as DISCOUNT TIMES -- you get a couple dollars off the normal ticket price during matinees, a couple dollars off drinks during Happy Hour, a cheaper plate during Early Bird Dining. The implication is that the price is $$$, but during these times you can get $.
In all fairness, people only get that lower price if they catch the cash register ringing it up at the wrong price -- and how many people note the prices of all their groceries?
Yes, I've had things in my Amazon cart that went down in price. And it seems to be about 50-50 whether things go up or down.
If people didn’t shop at the big retailers then local stores wouldn’t have gone out of business. Times change and people wanted more variety and better prices.
It take a lot less physical labor to change prices with electronic tags than paper ones. I don’t know why people are up in arms about it. These kinds of tags have been around for 5 years now. Other stores use them and they have no surge pricing.
I worked graveyard shift (11pm to 7 am) for 25 years, and then 3 am to 11:30 am for 13 years. It has been interesting to watch the various cycles of grocery stores that would be open 24 hours, then stop it, then resume it. Several Safeways here used to be open 24 hours. When the first Walmart Super Centers opened they were 24 hours. And when I was in College (1975-79) seems like all Albertson's grocery stores were open 24 hours.
I did!
They only replaced local stores because people overwhelmingly chose to shop at the big box stores where prices were cheaper and more products were sold. If everyone stayed with the small local stores, then they would still be in business.
I have posted elsewhere about the difference just in milk prices, that make no sense to me. Walmart charged $3.48 a gallon. Our local grocery chain charges $4.28. But this is the part I don't get. Our local grocery chain OWNS their dairy. That dairy bottles all the milk for our local Walmarts too. So unless I am missing something, our local grocery chain could match Walmarts price and still make money, but they choose NOT to.
