I found this at a 99 Cents Only store today:

Of course, despite the “title”, it’s not actually a book at all. Flip open that cover with every licensee’s favorite Peanuts image, and you’ll find six rolls of LifeSavers-like candy. In fact, the whole affair is an imitation of the LifeSavers Storybook, a Christmas treat that is well more than half a century old. And it’s like the older Storybooks, which didn’t have an actual story in them, rather than the newer ones that do. I paid full price for it today, but I’ll bet that starting tomorrow, all Valentine’s Day items will be half off.

Which may be just a tad more than you think it is, particularly if you used to be a 99 Cent Only store shopper but haven’t been in the last few months. This very popular chain had long had an upper price limit (and really, a default price for all not-otherwise-marked items) of 99 cents. Been that way for decades. But with inflation ever pushing items toward higher prices, this was very limiting on what they could carry and how much profit they could make. So they finally gave in, and jacked their top price up. By 1%. And I mean, exactly 1%. The price of this book is 99.99 cents. All their prices now end in the hundredths of a cent. It makes their receipts quite unweildy.

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