{"id":903,"date":"2008-05-28T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/5\/28\/The-promo-from-Hell"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:47:37","slug":"the-promo-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-promo-from-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"The promo from Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a radical departure from hallowed Columbia Sussex<\/b> tradition, the Las Vegas Tropicana<\/b> has discovered the concept of the promotional allowance. Presumably Tropicana Entertainment co-prexy Scott Butera<\/b> gets credit for talking boss William J. Yung III<\/b> into doing some risky, out-of-the-box type things like … marketing and even — Gasp!<\/i> — promos, some of them fairly proactive<\/a>. I mean, we’re talking about the company that yanked out the “free slot pull” promo two days<\/i> after taking over the Trop, back in early ’07.<\/p>\n

Nah, my only beef (and “beef” is the operative word) with the Sunday-Thursday “Roll 4 Gas”<\/b> promo is that three of a kind gets you a free buffet for two. Seriously, is this a promo — or a punishment? I’ve eaten at that buffet. It’s the worst I’ve had in town and you could grow a beard waiting for your server to put in an appearance. To add insult to injury, prices have gone up quite a bit — 22%, in fact.<\/p>\n

The Trop could put its own spin on the Wal-Mart<\/b> slogan and go with, “Always rollin’ up prices.” Except that the disembodied yellow dot-head would have to wear a frown in place of a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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