Need More Nines
I know that retailers love to use prices just below the dollar marks to try and fool us into thinking tge price is lower than it is. So $2.95 instead of $3. Sadly, it works. Almost everyone who sees $2.99 has some chunk of their brain thinking it's only "two something", not properly rounding up to three. But what's the deal with this?? $2.99.99 is not a real use of numbers. May 15 update: we saw a short documentary on the 99-cent stores going out of business, and I think it said that company invented the extra .99 bit during a few years of trying not to raise their prices to $1.