Talk:Discount sticker

These seem quite widespread
These are pretty common at Wallmart (at least the one near where I live). GnuAintUnix (talk) 07:52, 4 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I was coming here to say something like that, I think the scope of the article is kind of weird and arbitrarily narrow to the "yellow sticker" which appears to be a cultural meme/franework for specific retailers in the UK, to describe what is a common retail practice. It would be far better to zoom up a level to "old food discounting" or "food markdowns" or something similar -- it's an important tactic for reducing food waste and getting some financial return from perishable inventory in a wide range of spaces (i.e. sale of day old bread for crotons and french toast, etc.). Sadads (talk) 18:18, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually now that I am looking at it, the scholarly literature seems to use "mark down food" or "food mark down policy" pretty widely (see the Google Scholar search), Sadads (talk) 18:21, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I would tend to agree that "yellow sticker" is not how discount/clearance price stickers would be described in other locales or in general. It should be discussed whether this article is intended to refer to the specific Britishism (and perhaps its most recent implementation) or the concept of amending the price of a retail good with a sticker. And then secondarily, especially if British (or other region-specific) use is agreed upon, is the yellowness of the sticker essential, or is the article concerned with the concept itself (whether or not the sticker is, in fact, yellow)? TheFeds  00:04, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Title: yellow sticker → discount sticker
The title "yellow sticker" seems too ambiguous for the concept. I'm long used to looking out for such stickers at Waitrose where they were commonly red rather than yellow. And there are lots of other types of yellow sticker such as Post-it notes and warning stickers for dangerous materials such as oxidizers or radioactive items. The key concept here is the discount rather than the colour and so I have boldly moved the title. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:44, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

For potential use in article
Interesting BBC website article published today, with context and potential future developments. Hassocks 5489 (Floreat Hova!)  10:54, 30 November 2023 (UTC)