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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The reason shopkeepers won't give you a discount when you claim to be saving the world is [http://notalwaysright.com/with-great-retail-power/2528 probably that they've already heard it a dozen times], as seen on ''[[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]]''.
* Often, the person behind the counter is not the decision-maker who has the ability to grant you a discount. This is why it was wrong to blame Starbucks for not giving away bottled water to rescue workers at Ground Zero after 9/11.
** Cue the battle cry of all Soviet/Russian bureaucrats: "I am a small man".
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