Retail Markup

[Triskeliongirl]

Does anyone know what the typical retail mark up is? Now, I am not complaining, I know these folks have to run a business, warehouse and ship goods, pay employees, etc. But that Terry 50% sale got me thinking, why did they do it??? It seems like a big price cut to take on stuff people would have paid full price for. I need 24" front tires, I don't have a lot of choice in supplier and they never go on sale, so why 50% off on popular and even back ordered stock???? Didn't they just lose my future full price sale? I wouldn't have bought the clothes I bought, but I might have bought others when they went on sale, which would have been the ones that they couldn't get rid of, not their popular ones. Was it to make their sales revenues looks good for the month to some investor types? Was it to get us all into a shopping frenzy (but if so, if just made me stop shopping since I am all set for a while)? Was it to get us used to ordering from terry again (I admit I order from TE unless its an item that terry carries and TE doesn't, service is so much better at TE, and of course I want to support Susan when I can to thank her for creating this community.......but dang 50% off, hard to not do some damage). Just curious your thoughts, especially if any of you are in retail.