But thanks to his cellphone, Mr. Gilmore has lately been awash in discounts, regularly scoring reduced prices and special offers that he would never cut out of a newspaper circular.
But privacy advocates say they are more troubled by data brokers' ranking systems, which classify some people as high-value prospects, to be offered marketing deals and discounts regularly, while dismissing others as low-value — known in industry slang as "waste".
Home Sales Enterprises, a Brooklyn-based company, is selling name-brand models below their regularly discounted prices.
Now many newly released books are priced from $12.99 to $14.99, while discounted titles are regularly as low as $2.99.
Thus Random House senior editor Jonathan Karp says his firm's monster hit, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, is regularly discounted in the bookstore chains by 30% from its recommended price.
Groupon for instance regularly emails discounted tickets offers for Broadway shows and Major League Baseball games.
Indeed, we regularly discount the precise language others use when the factors of cultural context, framing, image (including auditory image, such as tone of voice), and our evolved capacity for biases combine to make us discern or suspect what an analogy maker "really" meant to say.
Still, to make sure that customers do not simply wait for its noon deals to come up, HotelTonight regularly changes the discounted hotels.
Warehouse discount stores regularly sell digital-ready picture-tube sets with the standard television aspect ratio of 4 3 for $1,000, and small 16:9, or wide-screen, projection versions for $1,500.
Among my other successes were two pounds of salmon, a bargain $2.82 a pound, using the discount tokens (regularly about $4.99); skim milk at $1.50 a gallon, saving about $1, and six cups of Colombo yogurt, at 51 cents a cup (though I prefer Dannon).
