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INFLUENCES OF SALE PROMOTIONS FIGURE ELEVEN PRIMARY PHOTO FIGURE TWELVE PRIMARY PHOTO Sale promotion are used within business practices in order to attract and encourage consumers to purchase items in a direct period and for expose the consumers to new products. (LLC, 1998) T he use of sale promotions have changed throughout time. Previously, sale promotions were a way of disposing of unwanted stock. (Retail Think Tank, 2016). Currently however, sale promotions are a way to ‘make a brand and its merchandise attractive to consumers’. (Posner, 2011:173) Therefore, as observed by the researcher, mass market brands aim to sell and promote their clothing brand to consumers which appeal to their company. 13 FIGURE THIRTEEN