{"id":3077,"date":"2014-11-26T21:22:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2014-11-26T21:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T05:22:01","slug":"are-you-getting-ripped-off-at-outlet-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2014\/are-you-getting-ripped-off-at-outlet-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Getting Ripped Off at Outlet Stores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Howard takes a swing at factory outlets: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The percent of merchandise in today&#8217;s outlet stores that are irregulars or factory seconds is around 1% to 5%.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s there is stuff being specifically made for outlet stores. The goods are designed for outlets only using inferior stitching and subpar material. You&#8217;ll almost never find what&#8217;s being sold in the outlet store in the traditional retail store. It may look the same, but it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>So it is an experience going to these places, but they&#8217;re not a place to save money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\"><a href='http:\/\/www.clarkhoward.com\/news\/clark-howard\/shopping-retail\/1-secret-you-dont-know-about-outlet-shopping\/'>The #1 Secret You Don&#8217;t Know About Outlet Shopping<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read some stuff by Clark Howard that I disagree with. But I don&#8217;t know enough about this subject, even though I don&#8217;t live so far from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodburns-own.com\/gateway\/city-of-unity\/\" title=\"Woodburn Oregon USA\">Woodburn<\/a> Company Stores.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your opinion of the quality of stuff you&#8217;ve purchased at outlet malls?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know the big secret in hiding them?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,1019,20],"tags":[857,1020],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-savings","category-youve-been-warned","tag-holidays","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ND","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}