{"id":4209,"date":"2014-12-22T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2014-12-22T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T11:38:56","slug":"how-retail-works-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/how-retail-works-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"How Retail Works&#8230; I Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from my inbox, this how retail works towards the end of the year:<\/p>\n<p><strong>October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only <em>x<\/em> number of days to go. Buy now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Offers. Buy now.<br \/>\nBlack Friday (Actually a full week)<br \/>\nCyber Monday (Another full week)<\/p>\n<p><strong>December<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buy buy buy.<br \/>\nOffers.<br \/>\nTwelve days of Christmas (despite 12 Days of Christmas being <em>after Christmas<\/em>)<br \/>\nLimited offers.<br \/>\nDaily specials.<br \/>\nWe match everyone else&#8217;s one-day sales.<br \/>\nLast order dates &#8211; get your orders in now (and hope we don&#8217;t use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-30438498\">Yodel<\/a>)<br \/>\nSeriously. You can still order from us. Use next-day delivery!<br \/>\nOrders for Christmas until 7pm tonight!<br \/>\nStill taking orders. Use click and collect!<br \/>\nWe can sell you vouchers!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Days before Christmas Eve<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our sale has started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Eve<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many more sales start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shop! Seriously! Our sales have started. What else were going to do today? Talk to friends and family?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boxing Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A handful of other retailers &#8220;finally&#8221; start their sales.<br \/>\nOur stores are all open at 4am!<\/p>\n<p><strong>27th December<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further reductions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Year&#8217;s Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you seen our Easter promotion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging from my inbox, this how retail works towards the end of the year: October Only x number of days to go. Buy now. November Offers. Buy now. Black Friday (Actually a full week) Cyber Monday (Another full week) December Buy buy buy. Offers. Twelve days of Christmas (despite 12 Days of Christmas being after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[374,373],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}