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Back before Amazon (I’m sure it still exists I just haven’t been in retail), on Black Friday we had a loss leader that would bring people to the store. In our case it was a pallet of DVD players. We priced them at break even at our cost to get them to the store so we would lose money on the sale if you accounted for labor. The goal was to entice people into the store so they would buy our other crap.

I wouldn’t be surprised if “loss leaders” aren’t actually losing money these days with how our Corporations are doing.

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humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When I worked at Radio Shack, they had cell phones as loss leaders to sell AA batteries and those multi-tip charging blocks. The way management acted, it seemed like those were the only profitable items in the store. For some reason, they went bankrupt.

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- ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Okay, but let me know if you see a RadioShack.
  
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  - humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    There’s one near me, but in name only. It’s like a budget Sharper Image now.
    
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Retail is still pretty cut throat. As someone that’s in retail for a big retailer, and is close to the sales data, I can attest to the fact that people are still wiling to break even or lose money on something if they think it will lead to a sale of something else. That’s really really common.

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