yeah...
My mother and I were discussing yesterday how over- priced things are. They must be!
When she was a kid, sales happened once or twice a year.
Now every store has a sale every ... well, actually, most stores has some kind of "sale" permanently, often between 30 and 50 %
... which just proves they earn so ridiculously much in the first place they can easily afford to dump the prices,
and around Christmas, we've adopted black friday ... but what they do is they increase the prices gradually before that, so sometimes the sales item are still more expensive than they were at summer time.