These "stocks" are just junk—total retail scam.

The sales we see around here aren't actually sales; they’re more like anti-promotions.
From clothing to groceries, the whole thing is a sham.

In other countries, when a real sale happens, you can walk away with an enviable amount of goods for next to nothing.

But here, the "discounts" are purely performative. They hike up the prices the day before, only to slash them back down during the supposed sale to the exact same level they just reached. It's a shell game.

Then there are the grocery store prices. Take those ridiculously overpriced pistachios sitting at $47/lb..
And they just leave them there, gathering dust. Where do they get the nerve to invent such inflated price points?
How does it even make sense for them to stock items that clearly have no buyer?

I guess they might just be doing all this because people are still out there buying stuff like absolute maniacs? 🙂
When you really stop to ask why these stores are even bothering with this nonsense, well, it comes down to who the crazy ones are actually purchasing everything... I mean, they wouldn't even bother selling if there wasn't some kind of demand driving it. If nobody was buying anything, those shops would have gone belly up a long time ago. 😳