bargain-counter
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Close behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bargain-counter symphony was the idea of Nicholas Johnston, a wealthy photographer whose portraits of the carriage trade fetch the fanciest prices in northern California.
From Time Magazine Archive
Did you ever see a bargain-counter crowd on Twenty-third Street?
From Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas by Hughes, Rupert
Then the prices of construction fall until they arouse "the bargain-counter instinct" of investors once more, and the cycle begins afresh.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
