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The discount that trained you to never pay full price again.
means A shortened, casual term for a promotion — a special offer, discount, or piece of marketing content meant to drum up attention or sales.
from Simply a clipping of 'promotion,' which traces back to Latin promovere — 'to move forward' (pro- 'forward' + movere 'to move'). The shortened 'promo' is a 20th-century bit of linguistic convenience, born in the fast-talking world of advertising and broadcasting, where everything — including the words themselves — gets trimmed down to fit between the pitch and the sale.
- origin
- short for promotion, the marketing kind not career
- psychology
- creates urgency even when the deal never ends
- streaming trap
- first month free trains you to forget to cancel
- retail secret
- original price is often inflated just to discount it