The store also offers a singing turkey to anyone who spends over $100. The Thanksgiving promotions at the local cafes and restaurants however are the most interesting. One is offering a ready-to-go Thanksgiving dinner and tickets for a family of four to see the latest Harry Potter film at the local Imax theatre. How is Harry Potter related to Thanksgiving? The local cafe owner dodged the question and said the motivation was to get the kids in a family to get their parents to buy the $79.99 bundle of the Thanksgiving Feast so they could all go to see the latest Harry Potter film at the high-quality Imax theatre. I asked him how sales were going. He said it was brisk and the tickets had to be made transferrable to other films as many of the parents weren't into Harry Potter, they wanted...
Outside of that one glitch the promotion was wokring. The Harry Potter Thanksgiving Bundle did not include a wand however for ease of carving, I asked. Another one of the more interesting promotions was for a tour operator that had coordinated with a Las Vegas hotel to offer package travel to Las Vegas leaving at midnight on November 24th and lasting until Sunday night the 28th. They were marketing the travel package to married men as the "Mother-in-Law Escape Holiday 2010" playing up the chance to have a romantic weekend in Las Vegas with their wives instead of being anchored down to boring relative get-togethers. I called to check on how sales were and they were sold out. No doubt this program resonates with couples who want to freedom to spend their free time…
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