On 4/15/19 5:29 PM, trader_4 wrote:

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I told the story here of the lady who looked to be in her 60s that
had the checkout stalled. She bought a steak that has a price marked of
X, and with the store card, you got 30% off. The cash register showed
it as let's say $12.73, discount -$3.66. She kept asking, but how much is
the steak? The register person kept saying it's right here, $12.73 minus
$3.66. But the woman kept asking for the price of the steak. And this
was Shoprite, big chain that has been doing discounts this way forever,
as have other stores. Supervisor came over too and round and round it went.
I guess neither had a calculator or could do the simple math to give her
the actual price, but I don't think that would have solved it either.

There are stores around here that show discounts that way, and I often
hear the employees explaining that. It the item is marked $10 and there
is a $3 discount, customers ask why the receipt shows $10 (with a
separate item for -$3).

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