Ladies' Day at the SpeeDee Lube?

Bars and clubs have been giving special deals to women for years.

And senior citizens often get a discount.

I wonder if good ol' SpeeDee Lube is planning to tell every woman that comes in that she needs a new filter. "See how dirty your air filter is, ma'am. We can replace it if you'd like for only $39.95" ;-)

Y'know, I expected something completely different from the thread title...

Eh, never mind.

Umm, yeah, I know people have been giving discounts to select groups of people (this time women) for years and years. I'm not sure what the legal situation is around that...

It's probably solid. I mean, I'm sure some guy has sued a bar before for giving women half-priced drinks while he has to pay full price. And if the practice continues, then I'm assuming the suing guy got nowhere.

/educated guess

Hmm.

I shall ask my retail lecturer when I next see her. It doesn't sound quite right to me either, but it's outside my area of expertise.

I mean, by all rights it should fall into the category of "Discrimination" - though I'm sure any defense lawyers would probably try to turn it around to say that they were trying to do something nice for a social group, instead of doing something bad for everyone else.

Personally, I think a lot of preferential treatment still falls under the banner of discrimination, just with perhaps more defendable reasons for it.

Not that I think there is a defense for it - but if it's done under the guise of doing something nice, then it enters a grey area in comparison to out-and-out discrimination...

I think it depends on the type of lube offered...

Oh, never mind...