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Senior citizen discounts are bad for business for a number of reasons:
- everybody does it.
I’m not talking about the Florida eat-at-4-pm deal. I understand how that make sense. Get the codgers in early and get them out early so the Xers with ankle-biters can move in and destroy the place. No, I’m referring to the standard, everyday, defacto “real” price for Seniors!. . . 10% Off! Mayhaps when we are more senior, we will start shopping harder and actually seek the restaurant/liquor store/car wash that offers. . . 10% Off! As it stands now, we go to Lonestar, Toot’s, Red Lobster, etc. etc. order what we order and at some point during the meal remember we are Senior Citizens and tell the waiter to deduct our 10% Off!
- we keep forgetting to ask and nobody volunteers the discount. This happened a lot on vacation in Boston. We would decide to take a tour, pay the price, and at later back at the hotel room, I would read in the tour book or brochure there was a Senior Citizen’s discount.
I guess this is an acquired habit: Just ask wherever we go, whatever we are doing. But would it kill the merchant to offer us a discount when we forget to ask? I have to show I.D. to buy beer at the ballpark. I wouldn’t mine showing an I.D. to get a Senior Citizen’s discount. I would feel good about that 12 year old working at Dairy Queen for having the kindness to give me a discount. I might even forego the sneer when s/he says “there ya go” instead of “thank you.”
- the Senior Citizen’s discount is usually given to people who were going to be there anyway. Kroger. Kroger has Senior Citizen’s Day the first Wednesday of every month. I guess it’s to get those Social Security check shoppers.
Nancy never shops anywhere but Kroger for groceries. Sometimes she shops on the first Wednesday of the month – and HATES it. She says the place is full of old people who don’t know how to park their cars, can’t maneuver a grocery cart, and pay by check.
- anybody can get the Senior Discount. At some places the age break is fifty-five! I have been missing out on some deals for years!
Here’s the deal business owners:
Instead of offering $9.99 entrees and skimping on portions to increase your bottom line, just stop giving away your profits to Senior Citizens. We won’t quit coming to Waffle House or Denny’s or McDonald’s or Francois’s House of Crepes & BBQ just because you stopped your discount. We don’t eat out because it’s cheap. We eat out because we are
1. too lazy to cook,
2. are social, or
3. want to look at other people, rather than the droopy eyed dogs begging at our feet.
Other hard goods merchants? Like gifts and oil changes and liquor and golfballs. . . shopping at your establishment is not a price deal, everybody price matches these days. We shop at your place because it’s a selection or service deal. We like the stuff you sell or the way you treat us. We won’t stop coming back if you keep that 10% Senior Citizen’s discount.
Senior Citizen Discounts are bad for business. But as long as it’s offered, I’m taking. I’m also asking for it every place I go.
The irony? About the only business that doesn’t offer a Senior Citizen’s discount is the medical business. Now there’s a deal worth shopping for: 10% Off!. . . MRI’s! Tuesdays Only!
Because it a dry heat, I would like to be shopping for Phoenix New Homes. If they continue to pay me for links, after 563 more posts I might be able to afford a down payment.
When we left Boston, earlier this week, where it was 58 degrees, cloudy, and windy, I actually thought getting back home, where it was 80 and partly sunny would be welcome.
Wrong foggy-glasses face.
Stepping into the humidity isn’t the same as being warm. I was as uncomfortable here as there.
Now the temp and humidity are climbing even higher.
I’m not really complaining, I just need to get 200 words so the people that build those “semi-custom luxury homes” will be happy.
Here are some humidity one liners I hadn’t heard before… humidity:
- is looking for air and finding water
- humidity contains everything from H to O
- is saved up in cloud banks
How about some Phoenix dry heat one liners?
- You can say 110 degrees without fainting
- You realize that asphalt has a liquid state
- You can drive your car with 2 fingers
This is true: I was dragging a suitcase across a parking lot in Phoenix and it kept getting harder and harder to wheel. I looked back and the hard plastic wheels were getting spongy from the heat and I was leaving tire tracks in the hot asphalt.
It’s not my fault, it’s the asphalt.
Browsing the web looking for stuff to do in Boston lead me to London.
Not actually to visit London, but to this website that seems to have everything you need to know about the city and it’s offerings.
I wish Boston would have had such a comprehensive site. Many sites try to give a complete overview of a city, but hardly any are as complete as Qype.
This is an amazing site.
At first glance you might feel overwhelmed by how busy the page is. But take a deep breath and dive in because everything is easily organized.
I’m not planning a trip to London in the near future, but I have bookmarked this site.
For example, if you want to know about restaurants, you’ll find a very in depth listing of restaurants. You can browse your choices by neighborhood, cuisine, or do a search of restaurants London and get a complete rundown on the restaurant, where it is located, what other people think, etc.
Are there other places that offer this type of information? Yes. Do they marry this London restaurant information with loads of other information a tourist would find appealing? No.
Prefer a pub crawl? Qype.co.uk has that too. Use the keywords pubs London in the search box .
Do a Google search on U.S. cities and you’ll be overwhelmed by the sheer number of results. All seem to be exactly what you are looking for until you click through and find out that the site is just a bunch of average content surrounded by ads.
Tourism spam blogs are rampant.
That’s why I was so surprised to find this site the site that gives information about London Restaurants, Bars, Hotels, Events and more, all in one location. Qype.co.uk also covers shopping, eating / drinking, arts, entertainment, or anything else that you are interested in.
Do you have an idea of the area of London you want to explore in depth. Look at this listing of London boroughs. It’s amazing. (You have to register.)
I’m not a hater of ads. Even the ads on Qype seem to be high quality.
I needed a second opinion in Qype, so I asked my London blogging friend Cakehead to take a look from an insiders perspective and I think she gave it a rave review. I’m never quite sure, because of the language barrier.
