{"id":46794,"date":"2024-01-08T06:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T06:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46794"},"modified":"2024-01-08T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:39:19","slug":"shopping-y-incorporated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/shopping-y-incorporated\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping: Y% incorporated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about consumer issues: the tutor mentions a recent &#8220;upgrade&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLocally, a store has been acquired by a larger chain. At first, I didn&#8217;t perceive much difference. A few weeks on, however, there is perhaps a rather significant one: among the goods I noticed, a jump of prices by, it seems, an average of around Y%. Such is my impression, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\nI recall, years ago, reading about an official called &#8220;Mr X%&#8221; because of a certain surcharge required to get contracts from the department he headed. It seemed a big deal at the time, but I believe Y&gt;X.<\/p>\n<p>\nInteresting, eh?<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about consumer issues: the tutor mentions a recent &#8220;upgrade&#8221;. Locally, a store has been acquired by a larger chain. At first, I didn&#8217;t perceive much difference. A few weeks on, however, there is perhaps a rather significant one: among &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/shopping-y-incorporated\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shopping: Y% incorporated<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46794"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46817,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46794\/revisions\/46817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}