Max: 15 ways stores trick you into spending
15 ways stores trick you into spending
Ever notice how you can go to a store to pick up just one thing and then, by the time you get to the check stand, you have five or six things in your cart and a bigger bill than you had anticipated?
This happens over and over because department stores use an array of techniques (grocery stores use many of the same tactics) to get you to pick up these items. By itself, each technique isn't very strong -- it's the use of them in combination that is powerful.
Here's a list of 15 of the best tricks. After the list, watch for 10 ways to combat these techniques so you can get in and out of stores with your finances intact.
Ever notice how you can go to a store to pick up just one thing and then, by the time you get to the check stand, you have five or six things in your cart and a bigger bill than you had anticipated?
This happens over and over because department stores use an array of techniques (grocery stores use many of the same tactics) to get you to pick up these items. By itself, each technique isn't very strong -- it's the use of them in combination that is powerful.
Here's a list of 15 of the best tricks. After the list, watch for 10 ways to combat these techniques so you can get in and out of stores with your finances intact.
posted by Max Dobberstein at 4/27/2007 10:28:00 AM
4 Comments:
Those sneakery marketing people! I am susceptible to most of the marketing/arrangement ploys mentioned in the article with the exception of the impulse stuff at the counter. The only things I really buy at the counter would be a pack of gum or a magazine, and since I know ahead of time that those two items are located at the front, I don't consider them impulse buys for myself. I don't know as though I've ever grabbed a cd or dvd there. I know I've picked up candy for Jason before, but not the other stuff they ususally put there to distract children, put them onto the one track of "mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy puuuuuhleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaase can I have that...but.mooooooooooooom, I was good this week and only hit Timmy once, but why" mode that the rest of us with no children so love to be caught behind.
OK. One of you guys needs to start BLOGGING again! Hop to!
Yeah, what Laura said!
Yeeeah. So, I tried to get on and post from work two days ago. I had a spare minute - the first I had in over a week. I could get to IWDC, but when I tried to go to Blogger, the internal filtering software stopped me from going to Blogger due to "Nudity, Pornography".
When I tried to comment on a post later, I got the same thing.
I hate those filters. There are stupid as all fuck. Yes, I know the firm is trying to block out porn, but they fail way more often than they succeed. There is too much porn on the Net to effectively block most of it and often perfectly harmless sites (like the search page on YouTube) get blocked because they might, maybe, possibly lead you to something *shiver!* ... bad.
And it's not like I can complain. "Excuse me, Security Guy, could you unblock my access to Blogger so I can write blogs and comment on blogs while I'm here at work?" That wouldn't fly.
I hate censorship in every form.
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