When did you last ask for a discount?
When I was a young man it was considered
to be extremely bad form to walk into a shop in England, take a product from
the shelf and actually ask for a discount off the marked price! Those of us
who were sufficiently wealthy to be able to take foreign holidays were quite
appalled when we went into bazaars and foreign shops and actually be expected
to haggle! Times have changed however, possibly because we have all had the
benefits of cheap overseas travel, and now at bargaining for a cheaper price
is commonplace. Where better to do that than on the Internet!
You can shop online for great discounts
on the following products:
cooker hoods
slow cookers
wardrobes
wedding rings
One of the greatest advantages of the
onset of the Internet to most people has been the ease with which they can
search the whole world if necessary for the cheapest price for any commodity
that they wish to buy. I do not think that many retailers really understood
the impact that this would have upon their businesses when the Web first
became popular, but they are certainly finding out now as people come into
their stores merely to take a look at their merchandise and select the product
which suited them the best, and then go home to search for the best price
online. There are many, many retail businesses going bankrupt now that the
credit crunch is really starting to have its baleful effects; I suggest that
this was merely the last straw for many shops and stores, and that the onset
of Internet shopping was the principal cause of their demise. In my not so
humble opinion the high street as we have known it in the past is doomed.
