At the start of the escalator to the second floor was this humorously-large sign listing all of the different departments to be found upstairs with their associated discounts, along with a random assortment of "extra 10% off" signs. There's a sign for 50% off fixtures too, which is something I always find amusing when I see it at closing stores, since fixture prices are just something the closing sale people assign, not some sort of list price! Having a discount on prices like that feels like nothing more than a sales gimmick, especially as plenty of fixtures weren't up for sale at all until after the "discount" was put into place.
Oh, and those Martha Stewart christmas bowls off to the right are a bit odd too -- this store had an absolutely massive quantity of them up to the end of the closing sale, and they seemed to sell extremely poorly even at high discounts (that, or there were even more of them than I thought and more kept being put out!). They must have been a colossal failure during the actual holiday shopping season, and weren't even popular on clearance. Honestly, they looked like fairly nice bowls, but I didn't have the need (or the space) for a set of large bowls at the time.
I've seen fixtures sometimes that have prices already affixed to them -- so when they do have the extra percent-off discounts, that's a good deal. Stein Mart is one example (although sadly the sign I bought that was supposed to be half off, the cashier forgot to ring up that way...), and I also saw in a video of Gordmans' final days that things were selling so poorly that even the fixtures were marked to 90% off!
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