I gave 10% off to the league bowlers, but I did not publicize it. If they asked okay, but I didn't go around telling everyone. Most all of them were or became my customers anyway. Getting people in the door was not the problem. I was trying to make a living, didn't want to give 10% of myself away.
Remember, most shops PAY to be in that particular bowling center for a reason, if the location has lots of league bowlers, that's why the shop guy wants to be there, and the rent could be higher because of this demand. The shop probably can't add on to this expense by giving a blanket discount.
I can see were jls is coming from. If you "expect" me to give you a discount, or "demand" a discount in order to make the sale, uhh not happening. I asked a couple very rude people what would happen if their boss came and asked them to do terrific, fast, high quality work, putting him at the front of their list of tasks, and oh yeah, you need to take a pay cut? What would you do?
I gave discounts to my "loyal" customers. The ones that were loyal to me and not to price, the ones that brought me more customers that paid full price. I tried to take care of those people.
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