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This doesn't have anything to do with technology, but it's an interesting bit I'd forgotten about long ago.  After getting my first job after college I decided it was time to buy some furniture.  I was shopping around and found myself at Marshall Field's a few times over the course of a month or two.  I noticed that everything was on sale every time.  The names of the sales were different, but they were sales nonetheless.  I got to talking to the sales lady and she told me that, yes, everything was always on sale, except for a couple days a year, because it's required by law that you can't have something on sale every day of the year.

So, it occurred to me that they don't have sales, but rather days where you really get shafted.  They don't advertise those days.  I feel for the sorry souls that go impulse shopping on the shaft days.  Needless to say, I didn't buy my furniture there.  Caveat emptor!