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So basically places didnt want to lose profit because lots of people would wait till the items were marked down before buying them? Convient stores dont do it because its stepping into the same pound as the grocery stores. Their solution was to create an illusion of an artifical shortage on some items forcing people to buy when the price was high at a fixed rate. Is this basically it?

It sounds similar to some price fixing here in the US i find it at least twice a week when i go into a grocery store to buy something thats marked down but the words are written to be misleading and when you get to the counter thats when your hit with the full price and length discussion about why you cant get the discount. They hope that you will get annoyed and just buy it out of frustation since you need the item.