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They're optimizing for their needs, not yours.

Why would they optimize for your needs? You're already a loyal consumer, to the extent that you're vaguely upset about a missed opportunity to go on a spending spree.

It really seems more beneficial for them to just apply a markdown to items that are doing nothing but taking up space in their warehouses. If that's what they're doing, you're searching through the list of stuff they want to get rid of, so that's a win for them even if you don't buy anything (because it's not like you won't look through them next year; you said you've done it three times in a row already?)