Tim Manners publishes "Cool News of the Day", which - surprise, surprise - includes short interesting stories about marketing, culture, business and entertainment. I read it everyday.
So, you want to save money when you shop but haggling is not your style because you either feel intimidated, shy or incapable. Tim tells how easy it can be.
When Brenda Perkins is shopping at Wal-Mart, her mantra is not quite the retailer's slogan, "Save Money. Live Better". It's: "Can you do better?"
That simple question netted Brenda a two-dollar discount on a blue-paisley fabric that otherwise would've cost her $4.99 per yard. Brenda scored another bargaining coup "at Macy's last summer when she asked the manager if he could dig up any discontinued flatware." She explains: "If you can take that merchandise right then and there, you'd be surprised what you can take off the floor."
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