{"id":35,"date":"2010-11-08T17:58:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/?p=35"},"modified":"2010-11-08T18:01:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T02:01:28","slug":"who-controls-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/2010\/11\/08\/who-controls-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Controls the Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading Kimberley Chung’s post “Buy One Get One Free,” I had a few thoughts in mind.<\/p>\n

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There are always different kinds of promotions going on almost all the time, and this phenomenon becomes more obvious now as the biggest holiday, Christmas is coming in about a month. When you walk into malls, individual retailer stores, and dollar stores, you can often see signs or posters announcing a big SALE going on. Some of the popular ones include “Buy One Get the Other One Free,” “Everything is 30% off of the original price,” and “Any Purchase Above $500 will receive a gift card valued at least $100.” I admit that these kinds of promotions are really attractive, but I sometimes think if the sellers are being honest.<\/p>\n

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The reason why I doubt the sincerity of sellers launching a sale is because of my personal experience of working at a home decor store. I was a part-time sales associate at a home decor store, and right before the store launched its annual Christmas sale, the manager asked us to change ALL the price tag on our merchandises…..I felt so shocking as I did not know such thing would ever happen. My experience somehow corresponds to one of the topic our textbook covers-the ethics of marketing. I remember reading one paragraph conveying how “bait-and-switch” works, and I think similar exercises should be avoided to ensure fairness in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading Kimberley Chung’s post “Buy One Get One Free,” I had a few thoughts in mind. https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kimberleychung\/2010\/11\/07\/buy-one-get-one-free\/ There are always different kinds of promotions going on almost all the time, and this phenomenon becomes more obvious now as the biggest holiday, Christmas is coming in about a month. When you walk into malls, individual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phoebechen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}