Lived in Leuven, Belgium for many years. Had a local hobby / model shop
that totally ignored normal retail pricing practices. First noticed this
when we switched from the Belgian Franc to the Euro (exchange rate was
40 / 1 if I recall), and noticed the prices of models in the guys
window. Prices like 27.04, 113.87 and such. No rounding up / down to hit
'price points'. Many months later I noticed that the strange pricing
continued and realized it had nothing to do with the guy's handling of
the exchange rates, he was simply working on a fixed mark-up, final
retail price be damned. Last weeks Leuven news said that the shop was
finally closing down after 60 years. Whatever his policies, seemed it
worked for him. (As an aside, for reasons not really relevant, I
hankered for a model of a C-130A . Went in one day to ask if he could
get one for me. He basically said 'what you can buy is what you see'.
Rude bastid. Still, I went by at least once a week to see if there was
one in the window.
On 30/12/2019 21:44, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:
Am 30.12.19 um 22:11 schrieb John:
Took all my collected change from 2019 to the credit union to cash in
today.
Came to $79.99 ... just one penny short of being $80.
I don't know if this is still done, but in my youth Germans would buy
the bride's shoes with 1 and 2 Pfennig coins collected by the whole
tribe over many years.
Belgium has just done away with the monetary chicken food and all shops
now round up or down to the nearest 10 cents. Other euro countries are
thinking about it.
Ralf
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