Written by Shilo Urban
How many times have you made a quick stop by the grocery store for a couple of simple items like milk and bread, only to wander out in a daze almost an hour later with an entire basket full of random items, junk food and 2-for-1 deals?
Perhaps you walked in with a mission and a list, only to be dazzled and delighted by the delicious smells in the bakery, shiny towers of fruits and vegetables, free samples of tasty dishes and the incredible deals -- well, at least they looked like deals. But supermarkets are employing a wide variety of psychological tricks to encourage you to buy more than you need, which not even the most astute shopper can resist.
Discover the following tricks that supermarkets commonly use to entice shoppers to shell out, and you will be able to resist their sneaky methods and save your money for what you really want.
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1. Don't agree with the misty produce interpretation. It really is to prolong the lives of the fruits and vegetables. It does add 'beauty' to them.. which is fine
2. Don't agree with long lines of queues as a way to stall the customers into making impulse purchase. The retailers want you out of there as soon as possible after you are done shopping because longer wait time at the queue means less cash flow per hour per cashier.
3. It is a good article on marketing 101. Eat well before going for shopping. That way you would be be doing less of impulse and 'dopamine' driven purchases.
it's plain cheating and must make them millions given the size of the chain and how often people don't pay attention if they're frassled and hurried.
thay do other things to like making the bigger packs more expensive per kilo and just not having the check out up to date on offers so they fail to take them into account.
If a store kept each check out line open all the time they'd lose money in paying their employees for standing around during the down times. Articles like this are simply claiming stores stall people in order to create an issue where there is none.
No, and this isn't blaming the store. Stores are in the business to make profits and that's cool. This slideshow is a heads up to consumers because, dad4lifesl, not everyone takes marketing 101.
On another note, what's up with this instinct that some regular folks have to constantly defend big companies, they can do that themselves.