Last week I spoke to furniture store owner who was “hoping” that sales would improve for his store. He was banking on next week’s “Clearance Sale” to really bump up the numbers. I asked him when was the last time he ran a clearance sale and he said 6 months ago.  I asked him, “So how did it do?” He said it was “OK”. Nothing spectacular?  “No”. I asked how often he ran such an event?  “Twice a year”. I asked him to look up the numbers and see how the clearance sale did a year ago… A couple minutes later, he got back on the phone and said, “Well looking up the numbers, it seems as though the numbers from my Clearance S...