Flutterby™! : Holiday "Discounting" isn't

NY Times: Online Deals for Holiday Shopping: Buyer Beware:

So far this year, The Wirecutter and The Sweethome have researched 54,000 holiday deals. They’ve found that only a bit more than 300 of them — less than 1 percent — are worth your time. “When we find a deal that we think is good, it’s a needle in a haystack,” Ms. Cheng said. “We’re super-excited when that happens.”

Kind of anti-news, we know that this sort of "discounting" is just consumer manipulation, but amazing that they didn't find many loss leaders at all.