People usually don’t save their Black Friday circulars from year to year, because that would be really weird. Here’s the thing, though: the deals on the shopping holiday aren’t that great to begin with, and they also repeat from year to year. [More]
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Western Beef, Where The Price Of Cod Depends On Which Stock Photo You’re Looking At
By 1.14.15
Consumerist reader Jenifer was perusing the weekly Western Beef circular for the chain’s Florida stores when she came upon a bit of a choose your own fish adventure with pricing. [More]
Target's Price-Match Policy Not Suited To Paperless World
By 5.17.12
Brick-and-mortar stores that match competitors’ prices generally don’t match prices from online merchants. They also won’t match the websites of their competitors down the street, or price-match their own websites. All of that is reasonable and well within their rights. But what happens in a paperless world, where the only evidence a customer has of that sale price is a circular delivered electronically? Reader Span_Wolf receives an electronic copy of the Best Buy circular every week. Getting a paper copy would require a trip to Best Buy or purchasing a Sunday newspaper. But this isn’t sufficient proof of the lower price for Target. [More]
Everything At This Supermarket Tastes Just Like Chocolate!
By 3.25.09
Justin sent us this photo of his neighborhood Associated Supermarket in NYC, where a printing error on the latest sales posters didn’t stand in the way of putting them up. We guess it was cheaper to just run around throwing handfuls of cocoa powder on everything than to reprint them.
Circular Delivery Guys Are An Unstoppable Force
By 11.1.07
Every two weeks everyone on my block gets a bag full of coupons. It’s a bit annoying and certainly a waste of trees. I kick them right to the curb for recycling. One time I even tracked down the company and asked for them to stop delivering to building. They said, oh yeah sure, it may take a few weeks, but we’ll take you off the list. The coupons have never stopped.
