Then change the convention so that it doesn’t involve a number with Nazi associations.
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I’ll have to take your word for that. I’ve worked in retail and never run into that being the case, so maybe it’s not as universal as you believe. It sounds plausible enough but I agree with others that I find this Nazi signaling being deliberate MORE plausible. There’s no reason to give these people the benefit of a doubt, this is absolutely the sort of fascist trolley gaslighting they would do and have done.
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He sells pillows. I don’t think that he’s clearing out leftover stock of last year’s design. I don’t even think he has a wide range of different types of pillows or variants.
And it clearly says that it’s 14.88 “with promo code.”
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Meh, I worked in retail for a long time, we didn’t use any codes involving the price of the item before or after digitalisation.
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I worked on backend data systems for retailers for years. No one does. Never have and never will. Price is always variable. Price and cost estimation happen while the item has an identity already in some system. Even MSRP gets changed all the time before sale.
14.88 is not a special number otherwise. People are trying to capture the Mandela effect I guess? This is applying some old marketing logic about pricing things under a whole number when promoting a sale and using that to justify the choice. But it’s a choice. Much like offering a 4.20 dollar burger on 4/20 would be a choice.
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It’s been 4 days since the twitter post so, by now they got the message and, if it was an accident, they would have changed the price by now.
Nope. Still on their website for $14.88.
Source: MyPillow | r277
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this sort of thing?
That’s all interesting, but sounds like it’s specific to those chains rather than universal. I’ve worked a handful of retail jobs and none of them happened to have policies like that- the one where I work currently does have color-coded price tags but they’re very simple and just denote to the customers whether books are used, new or remainders, rather than some internal discount hierarchy.
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Home Depot uses a similar system, but with .03 and .06
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