Have you heard the story about the small grocer who had a supermarket open up next to him? This story is ancient as will be obvius from the measurements used.
Anyway the grocer used to sell butter for 50p a packet. The supermarket opened up and sold it for 49p. The next day the grocer pu a big sign on the front saying:
Butter: 48p
The supermarket couldn't afford to lose face so the next day it was loudly advertising:
BUTTER, ONLY 47p
However the grocer soon changed his sign to
Butter: 46p
This went on for days until the supermarket was advertising butter for ONLY 10p but the grocer still beat it:
Butter: 9p
The supermarket owner was now losing a lot of money by selling butter this cheap and went next door to the grocer to see if they could work out a deal. However the grocer wasn't too concerned and didn't want to. The supermarket owner said "I can't understand how you can survive selling butter this cheap, I pay 40p each for it and so I'm losing 30p on every sale!".
The grocer said "Oh, I'm only losing 1p on every sale, I just buy it from you".
tias23111 on October 22nd, 2022 at 02:12 UTC »
Locally sourced as well
Elevenst on October 22nd, 2022 at 02:31 UTC »
With a username like u/WSNC-JBR it's almost like OP works for a small town news station, reporting things like this as breaking.
scatteringlargesse on October 22nd, 2022 at 05:51 UTC »
Have you heard the story about the small grocer who had a supermarket open up next to him? This story is ancient as will be obvius from the measurements used.
Anyway the grocer used to sell butter for 50p a packet. The supermarket opened up and sold it for 49p. The next day the grocer pu a big sign on the front saying:
Butter: 48p
The supermarket couldn't afford to lose face so the next day it was loudly advertising:
BUTTER, ONLY 47p
However the grocer soon changed his sign to
Butter: 46p
This went on for days until the supermarket was advertising butter for ONLY 10p but the grocer still beat it:
Butter: 9p
The supermarket owner was now losing a lot of money by selling butter this cheap and went next door to the grocer to see if they could work out a deal. However the grocer wasn't too concerned and didn't want to. The supermarket owner said "I can't understand how you can survive selling butter this cheap, I pay 40p each for it and so I'm losing 30p on every sale!".
The grocer said "Oh, I'm only losing 1p on every sale, I just buy it from you".