FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 09, 2024

Kurtwood Smith’s Red Forman character from That 70s Show has one word for Roger. Seven letters, and the first half of it is ‘dumb’. :-D

The US economy functions primarily on the principle that a large portion of the population will buy almost anything if you market it to them properly, whether they need it or not.

The constipated snailster should also have been given as an option!

He also sells used cars on the side.

In college I worked for a department store, Maison Blanche. I got to chat with one of their marketing experts, they said they set price points on certain items via a “3 tier system”. Obviously they would set the high end, top shelf product at the highest price with a moderate mark-up. The cheapest, bargain product with the not so well known brand name was sold with a minimal mark up as its purpose was to draw the customer into the store, not pull a profit. The highest mark up (percentage wise to actual cost) was the mid range product as many would come to the store and look at the items and while they may not be able to afford the high end product (lets say a Sony TV) they do not want to get the low end product on sale (no name TV) so they settle for the middle priced item (in comparison to the Sony, say a Panasonic at the high end, Sanyo at the low end of the mid-ranged products). The TVs were the example the marketing guy used back in the late ’80s…..

He saw you coming!!!

Sears paint center years ago couldn’t sell their marine grade varnish at $8 so they raised the price to $30 and couldn’t keep it on the shelf. Marketing found out nobody wanted cheap varnish to put on their boat so they just raised the price.

And that my dear Shakespeare, answers your question, “What’s In A Name?”.

Value is subjective. If Roger thinks that “speedsters” are more valuable, they are—-to him. The validity of what he thinks is another issue.

Salesman is on commission.

And the ‘speedster’ is will be less cushioned than the others (in order to be lighter and more efficient in transfer of force.

Most beginning runners would do much better with one of the first two choices. Plus cheaper :^)…

The sales associate (remember those?) looks like my city editor back in the early 90s. Now he looks like Roger. But don’t we all…?

My daughter went to UC Santa Cruz, she might go for the slugster

The proper shoes for training for a marathon is slippers . . . oh and find the TV remote.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

No evil chuckle?

The upsell in action.