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Name Your Price

12 years ago

I'm so happy to see big box stores again allowing me to name my own price on unmarked items at the register. Finally they see the wisdom of not holding up employees and lines of customers for a widget thats only worth a few bucks and I save a little money.

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LuAnn_in_PA
12 years ago
Never heard of that...
mikie_gw
12 years ago
The hallway to rest rooms at my grocery has a large basket of highly reduced prided items. Super great mark downs. Looks like guess somebody will buy this for 15 cents.
Quite a mix of items.

I always wondered, if those are items are what people forgot & left in the rest rooms.
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grainlady_ks
12 years ago
We have a clearance shelf at our local grocery store too, but I find lots of great bargains there at greatly reduced prices. I purchased a 12-pack of Quilted Northern - which was regularly $8.99 and I found it on the clearance rack for $4.49 AND I had a $1.00 off coupon so I spent $3.49 for 12 rolls of TP - WOO HOO!

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