When I was in a wholesale business in Florida in the 80s, during the bad economic periods, I had some (retail) customers that had a strange understanding of economics.
Business got slow, profits down, so they *raised* their prices. Their “logic” was that since selling fewer items, they had to make more on each item. Want to know how well that worked?
Once, for an experiment, I offered to cut my price if they would cut theirs also & work on a smaller margin. No takers.
Being flexible sure helps. This is a negotiation based on what CAN be done to improve the picture, rather than on what CAN’T (supposedly) be done to improve it.
The devil talks like he totally rules this place, but the big secret is that God’s willing to come in at once when called. And eventually God will rule it all, but that involves a housecleaning that God is putting off because He’d rather people all choose Him if they will. (And some won’t.)
Business got slow, profits down, so they *raised* their prices. Their “logic” was that since selling fewer items, they had to make more on each item. Want to know how well that worked?
Seems the owner stocked a lot of half-gallons of ice cream but not a lot of quarts, pints and half-pints. The reason?
“I can’t keep the little ones on the shelf. They sell out too fast.”
Ya can’t make this stuff up...