Have you noticed the discounts in stores?

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Have you noticed the discounts in stores?

July 8, 2009 – 9:10 am – No Comment

Recently, Chris and I have gone to the mall and done a little bit of clothes shopping (it’s nice to feel like I’m stimulating the economy). Everywhere we went, it seemed like there was some kind of clearance sale going on or another form of sale just to clear out inventory. There were buy one get one specials among other pricing schemes.

It is barely July and it seems like all the retailers are trying their best to clear out summer inventory. This is fine in my opinion because clearance sales means that we all save money.

Chris went to Dillards and bought clothes that would have cost him more than 3 times what he paid if he were to have paid what the tag said. I found the same things to be true at the stores I visited around the mall and in shopping centers.

I believe that the deep discounts offered by retailers are a sign that they are unable to peddle their wares to the public; the public that is so stretched financially that some are still losing their homes and not worrying about buying clothes. However, this is the same public that needs new clothes to go to job interviews and hopefully get those new jobs that will put food on their tables.

Not to sound long-winded this is just something that I noticed while trying to do just that; buy clothes for job interviews.

These retailers are also having to clear out shelf space for fall and winter items in hopes that their winter sales are higher than sales during this summer.

So, if you are needing clothes for the summer season, I would suggest making it to a sale or two because it seems as though if you wait until August, there may be nothing left (and in the Southern summers I’m accustomed to, summer can last until October).