Pants Expedition (continued)

The first stop on my pants expedition was at Kohl's. Now I have to thank Kohl's from the bottom of my heart for making my future pants shopping forays much simpler, in that I will never, ever set foot in one of their stores again. The reason they have earned such antagonism from GOM is due to their PPP (Pants Pricing Policy, for the uninitiated). Most of their pants are priced with the devious "get one, get another for half price" scheme. And if you just buy one pair, you have to pay the original, nondiscounted price! So if I buy two pairs of pants, it costs me $67.50 ($45 discounted price for the first pair and $22.50 for the second pair). But if I only buy one pair, it costs me the original nondiscounted price of $60! This obviously puts the pressure on me to buy 2 pairs of pants, but they don't have 2 pairs of pants in my size that I like. Sometimes they don't even have more than one pair of pants in my size anyway. I mean, this pricing policy may make sense if you're buying soup or toilet paper or some other item that you know you're going to need a lot of, but it makes no sense as a PPP! So to hell with Kohl's - I'll take my pants business elsewhere. It's on to JC Penney's ...