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2 unusual facts about Discount


Discount

Discounts and allowances, reductions to the basic prices of goods or services

Discounting, a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor


Antal E. Fekete

The discount rate cannot be regarded as an "interest rate", a position Charles Rist and John Fullarton have also taken.

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

Whereas this film's predecessor Barbarian Queen was able to benefit from the publicity of the successful big-budget Conan film and get some play in discount movie theaters, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was not so fortunate.

Whereas this film's predecessor Barbarian Queen was able to benefit from the publicity of the successful big-budget film Conan the Barbarian, and was released to some discount movie theaters, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back was released straight to video and DVD.

Bel Air Mall

In March of that year, discount retailer Target announced it would be locating its first South Alabama store at the mall.

Berthold Albrecht

Berthold Albrecht (14 August 1954 - 21 November 2012) was a German businessman and one of Germany's wealthiest men as co-owner (with his brother Theo Albrecht Jr.) of the Aldi Nord chain of discount supermarkets.

Budget Rent a Car

Beginning in April 2011, television actress Wendie Malick of Hot in Cleveland is the spokesperson in a series of television and online ads that offer special, limited-time, discount offers.

Capital gains tax

From 21 September 1999, after a report by Alan Reynolds the 50% capital gains tax discount has been in place for individuals and some trusts that acquired the asset after that time and have held the asset for more than 12 months, however the tax is levied without any adjustment to the cost base for inflation.

Coles Express

The business venture and corresponding fuel discount offer was launched in July 2003 in response to the similar offer by rival Woolworths Limited some years earlier, proving attractive to shoppers.

Colin Van Ostern

He currently lives in Concord and works for Stonyfield Farm managing the Brown Cow line of natural yogurt as well as Stonyfield's food service and discount club operations.

Cowboy Junkies: The Platinum and Gold Collection

It is the second compilation of the band's singles released by RCA in just three years, following 2001's Best of the Cowboy Junkies, and is part of the label's Platinum and Gold Collection series of discount-priced singles anthologies.

Derek Cook

In addition to the formation of DC Cook Direct, Derek Cook had also formed Motor Solutions in 2002, an online discount dealer of new and used cars, which was later sold to Virgin Group (with Virgin taking a 53% stake, and keeping Cook on as the chief executive), and renamed as Virgin Cars, before its closure in January 2006, seven months after Cook's death.

Discount Tire

The company's outlets are branded as America's Tire Company in Oregon, Vancouver, Washington, and California (except for San Diego County, where it is known as Southern California Discount Tire Company).

Domain Central

Domain Central also has a large number of outlet and discount retailers including the furniture retailers Nick Scali Furniture, Far Pavilions, Bazaar Furniture Traders, Bedshed, Sleepcity, Snooze and Sleepys; lifestyle retailers BCF, Tackleworld, BNG Sports and Kathmandu and fashion retailers Barkins, Millers and Tarocash.

It is a Queensland's largest major outlet and large goods shopping centre, containing 50 stores including major retailers such as Dick Smith, JB Hi-Fi, Freedom, Lincraft, Trade Secret and a number of other homemaker, fashion and discount outlets.

Don Howland

He has recorded for many independent labels including Matador, In the Red, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Hate Records (IT), Dead Canary, Revenant, Siltbreeze, and Columbus Discount Records.

F. W. Woolworth Company

This was the same year as its competitors opened similar retail chains that sold merchandise at a discount: the S.S. Kresge Company opened Kmart, Dayton's opened Target, and Sam Walton opened his first Wal-Mart store.

Fisher's Big Wheel

Fisher's Big Wheel primarily located in smaller towns which were not already served by other discount retailers, while in other markets, it competed directly with such discounters as Zayre, Kmart, Wal-Mart and Hills Department Store.

Footstar

Footstar originally consisted of three former Melville divisions – family footwear retailer Thom McAn, athletic shoe retailer FootAction USA, and Meldisco, which operated footwear departments inside department and discount stores, primarily Kmart.

Freedom Debt Relief

The company negotiates on behalf of indebted consumers who are experiencing a financial hardship with the goal of avoiding bankruptcy (Chapter 7 or Chapter 13) by settling their unsecured debt at a discount to what is actually owed.

G. E. M. Membership Department Stores

Following the G.E.M. discount model, Koffler later opened one of the first "big box" store chains, Shoppers Drug Mart.

Gabriel Brothers

Gabriel Brothers, Inc., founded in 1961, is a private discount fashion retailer headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.

Goldstar

Goldstar Events, an online discount ticket retailer for entertainment events

Greyhound Canada

NeOn, a discount service based on the same model used for BoltBus in the United States, and competing with Megabus, is a service operated by Greyhound Canada in cooperation with Trailways of New York and Greyhound Lines between the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan and the Toronto Coach Terminal.

Halle Brothers Co.

In November 1981 Field's sold Halle's (now numbering 15 stores in Ohio and Pennsylvania) to Associated Investors Corporation, led by Columbus, Ohio businessman Jerome Schottenstein, whose primary holdings included the Value City discount store chain.

ICA AB

Formerly known as Hakongruppen and owned by Stein Erik Hagen, it operated solely RIMI discount stores until ICA bought the chain, and transformed many of the stores to the ICA brand.

Indian coal allocation scam

Thus, using any reasonable discount rate, the Present value of the windfall gain will be dramatically smaller (perhaps one tenth) of the windfall gain stated in the CAG Report.

Johnny Bulla

He won the L.A. Open in 1941 with a discount golf ball, which sold for a quarter at Walgreens.

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler

He was an honorary chief of the Seneca nation, promoted Iroquois lacrosse teams, and obtained discount railroad fares for New York Indians.

Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert

He was born at Lyon, the son of Étienne Delessert (1735–1816), the founder of the first fire insurance company and the first discount bank in France.

Midland Gate

Midland Gate is one of two shopping centres in Western Australia with all three discount department stores - Kmart, Target and Big W.

Oliver Foot

Jamaica Blue sold and used Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee and served locally supplied Jamaican foods, cakes and crafts; Air Jamaica transported all the coffee at a discount price and even flew shipments of Jamaica's own St Catherine's peak spring water.

Paul Szep

In 2010, a putter discarded by Szep and sold at a discount golf store was bought for $39 by Jim Furyk, who won the $11 million FedEx Cup tournament with it.

Penn Fruit

However, rivals such as A&P, Food Fair (later known as Pantry Pride) and Acme were opening discount stores of their own, and in 1973 Acme's 173 Philadelphia-area stores launched a price war against Penn Fruit's 12 warehouse markets.

Peter Warrick

On September 29, 1999, during Warrick's senior season at Florida State, Warrick and teammate Laveranues Coles went to Dillard's in the Tallahassee Mall and bought $412.38 worth of clothing for $21.40—a discount so large that it is considered shoplifting under Florida law.

Priceline

Priceline.com, a commercial website which helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related items such as airline tickets and hotel stays

S. Klein

S. Klein positioned itself as a step above regional discount stores of its time (Two Guys, Great Eastern Mills), more fashion aware than E. J. Korvette, and a more affordable option compared to traditional department stores like Macy's, or Abraham & Straus.

Star Track Express

StarTrack, formerly Multigroup Distribution Services, Discount Freight Express and Star Track Express is a national Australian transport and logistics company owned by Australia Post, a Government-owned corporation.

Super Saver Foods

Super Saver was a brand launched by the Acme grocery chain in 1970 on the East Coast as discount format grocery stores.

The Eustace Bros.

was a BBC drama series starring Charles Dale, Neil Morrissey and Ralf Little as three brothers from Nottingham struggling to keep their discount warehouse business afloat.

Trip to Tagaytay

In this vision of the future, popular actor Aga Muhlach is the aging President, the Eraserheads are on a Reunion Tour that spans the stars, and Philippine Spacelines is offering a 50% discount on Moon Travel.

Two-fer

Buy one, get one free, a discount sales promotion offering two items for the price of one

Walter Zeller

Walter P. Zeller (1890–1957), Canadian businessman and founder of discount retail chain Zellers

Watergardens Town Centre

Built in Mid 1997, this shopping centre contained 178 businesses, including two supermarkets (Coles and Safeway), a discount department-store (Target), and two Terry White Chemist's in both sections of the centre as well as a Hoyts Cinema.

Westfield Kotara

The centre now features a total of 247 shops including a new Target discount department store, Dreamy Donuts, JB Hi-Fi, The Reject Shop, Borders, Jay-Jays, Gloria Jean's, General Pants co, Just Jeans, Australia Post office, Pumpkin Patch, Supré, McDonald's, newsagencies, Oporto, Fitness First Gym, Wild Surf co, Priceline, Toys "R" Us, Coles, Woolworths, K-Mart and David Jones.


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