1.How to Get Best Clearance Price in Stores In most retail stores, clearance is marked down at beginning of month. And for stores that use tiered clearance system, where items fall in price as month progresses, you will find that best time to get lowest price for a clearance item is toward end of month.

2.Yellow Tag, Red Tag Clearance Method - When Best Price Isn’t Always Final Clearance Price Stores that use yellow tag to red tag clearance method also use a tiered system to incrementally mark down items on clearance. Generally, items are placed on clearance at beginning of month and will be gradually marked down as month progresses. Any remaining yellow-ticketed items are then red ticketed for final clearance at beginning of following month. Because this system is percentage based, when yellow-ticketed price drops to its lowest percentage off (usually 50% off yellow-ticketed clearance price) makes this best item to buy. This way you can save as much as 80% off regular price of an item. However, if you wait until same item is red-ticketed for final clearance, you will pay a higher price and only receive about 50-60% off regular price. This is a clearance strategy used by many major retailers.

3.Too Early/Too Late For a Great Sale – Not Anymore Most retail stores have an unpublished policy that allows customers to receive sale price for an item either a day before or a day after begin and end dates of an advertised sale. You just have to ask to receive sale price.

4.Price Adjustment – Too Late, Not Necessarily Most retailers have a published policy allowing customers a specific timeframe to receive price adjustments and an unpublished policy that actually extends this timeframe anywhere from 7 to 14 days. Even if you are outside official timeframe for a price change, make request, as most stores will honor adjustment based on unpublished policy and because they won’t risk losing a customer.

5.Buy One, Get One Free and Buy One, Get One ½ Off Sales (BOGO) – Great for Retailer, Bad for Customer The national retail store I work at part-time as Ad-Set Supervisor usually has a Buy One, Get One Free, and Buy One, Get One ½ Off Sale, also know as BOGOs, twice every sale cycle (12 weeks). It always amazes me how many people flock to store for these sales because in retail industry, these are known to be one of worst sales for customers. How? By breaking numbers down one can quickly see just what I mean. Let’s say you need a pair of jeans and find that there is a BOGO sale at your favorite store offering you ½ off second purchase. If you paid $20.00 for first pair and $10 for second pair (since it was ½ off) your total purchase amount on two pairs of jeans is $30.00, with an overall savings of $10.00 or 25%. But more than likely, these same jeans usually go on sale for 30 to 40% off during one of store’s regular sale events. That means if you had purchased these same jeans during a regular 30% off sale you would have paid $14.00 per pair or $28 for two pairs a savings of $12.00, or 30% off saving you an additional $2.00 than BOGO Sale. At 40% off you would have paid $12.00 per pair or $24.00 for two pairs, or 40% off saving you an additional $6.00 than BOGO Sale.

For example: You might have planned a romantic dinner for you and your partner and spent hours preparing and daydreaming about it. You know exactly how it is going to be, your partner is going to be so delighted and happy and greatly reward you for effort you have made. Oh it's going to be so blissful.

Unfortunately when your partner gets home, there has been a big problem at work. The boss has been giving them a really hard time and they arrive home in a foul mood. They do not even notice how much effort you've gone to, gulp down dinner, and just want to drown out day by having a drink and watching something mindless on television.

After all time you have spent preparing meal and imagining how evening is going to be, you feel let down, hurt, disappointed, uncared for and frustrated.

Depending on your way of dealing with your negative feelings, you will either silently resent your partner for ruining your evening. Or you will start an argument, telling them how much trouble you've gone to and how they don't appreciate anything you do.

After day your partner has had, this is last thing they want or need, and they will probably feel that you don't understand them or care about, or support them when they really need it.

There are actually a number of things that have led to your stress and unhappiness in above scenario and a number of laws that can come into play to help you.

Firstly there are Laws of Expectations and Non-Resistance. You were expecting night and your partner to be a certain way and felt disappointed when they did not live up to images in your mind. You could not accept that night was not going as you wished it too. You were attached to having it be a certain way.

Then there is Law of Giving and Receiving. You were expecting your partner to appreciate what you had done and what you were giving to them. In return you were expecting something back. You were expecting to receive gratitude, attention and affection.