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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Out of curiosity, is it unusual for european retailers to tie deep discount sales to major holidays?
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Are things that different?
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Things are different.
Here, in my little town there are quite a few competing chains, so all year round they issue sale of the week. Every week you receive a flyer with current discounts. Sometimes you come to shop to buy something from the flyer and they tell you "we only received two pieces and they were bought out 30 seconds after we opened". In such case I leave the shop without buying *anything* else. Even if that means I have to go elsewhere to buy milk or bread or whatever. I wish more people did so. Another lovely practice is that you buy something discounted and at home you find out that on the bill there is full price. You ALWAYS have to check whether the discounted price you see next to the goods is the one they bill you.
Some enterprising soul has set up site where all info about all discount flyers in town is aggregated, so when I run out of something that I buy in bulk, I can look up where to go to buy it.
Of course, with globalization we also see seasonal discounts, but not in such scale as in USA.