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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panda, post: 954216, member: 24443&quot;]i just looked at my shirt and its south pole! i guess i&#039;m gangsta, time to choose either red or blue and learn the gang hand symbols!</p><p><br /></p><p>im joking, well not about the shirt.</p><p><br /></p><p>most of the brands i used to buy have been putting out the ugliest clothes! real gaudy and glittery, how do people were that stuff(no offence if anyone does). its so hard to find a shirt anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>there is no national chain grocery stores in pittsburgh, the store thats named something like &quot;giant bird&quot; ran them all out of town. they have this fuel perks thing, not sure how common it is around the country but you get so much money off their gas stations, depending on how much you spend. its 10 cents off a gallon per $50 you spend at the store(tobacco not included).</p><p><br /></p><p>i worked there right before they started this, so i had remembered most of the prices. well after they started the fuel perks program, the prices went up.</p><p><br /></p><p>me and a friend who manages another grocery store went over the price difference vs fuel perks, and you still lost out with the perks. you spend $280 on food and basically get a free tank of gas, but that same food could be had at another store for around $200-$220. so at best you spent $60 on a fill up(you can get up to 18 gallons, i believe).</p><p><br /></p><p>when making our &quot;shopping list&quot; we used basic items like milk, eggs, cheese, that kinda thing. we put enough items so that we would be right at, what would get enough for a free tank of gas at the time it was $2.80 a gallon, so we put $280 worth of &quot;giant bird&quot; food prices. the same brand and amount of food at his store had a grand total of $212.xx(can&#039;t remember the change).</p><p><br /></p><p>also wasn&#039;t sure if putting the actual name of the store so called it &quot;giant bird&quot;. really thats not the name, very close though! i am sly!</p><p><br /></p><p>so yea, there is so many marketing tricks. the most common is the price mark up, then discount. they are always coming up with something new and most people don&#039;t even notice. they just see something that says they are getting a deal or something &quot;free&quot; and jump on it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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