Red tag sale

    A new chain store has moved into the area called Ollie's. It's up the same street as Big Lots (literally, as it happens, but I meant that their in the same business), meaning that they sell a lot of Chinese crap which is ostensibly overstocks from other stores and thus extra cheap. Ollie's adds a new wrinkle. They put red price tags on everything. This is because most stores use red price tags on clearance items only. It works, too. I was really swayed to think that the prices were particularly low. (In fact, items that I could check against other stores' prices were cheap, but not cheaper than anywhere else.) So I should say that the trick worked up to a point; I didn't in fact buy anything.