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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 6/28/2008 8:53:34 AM
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rhippie
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My personal opinion:
There's no trick or scam involved; business is in business to separate you from your money! Want to know how to avoid the trap:
1. Live on a budget
2. Only buy what's on the shopping list
3. Never grocery shop when you're hungry
Life is simple why bother complicating it
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 6/28/2008 10:50:55 AM
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bzirk
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Great article, and great response, Rich. It really is about having a plan and sticking to it. Of course that's not glamorous to people, so they usually don't do it.
I read a statistic a few weeks ago (gotta remember where I read this), that in 1988, Americans saved (on average) 11% of their income. Today, it's like 1/2%. Of course the government is blamed for this, and yet the government has been more and more involved in our finances (read that: running their hands in our back pocket). The truth is that a significant number of Americans believe we can't make it without a video camera or a dvd player or a vacation out of town every year or an up-to-date car every 2-3 years (or 3-6 years drop dead) and certainly we should own a house. It seems (and maybe it just seems that way to me and I'm wrong) that if people don't have those things, then they consider themselves poor.
< Message edited by bzirk -- 6/28/2008 10:58:07 AM >
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 6/28/2008 10:54:48 AM
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bzirk
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I guess what I'm saying is that stores are able to sell us so many things not just due to these tricks in the article, but because they appeal to our identity or rather the identity we want to have or maintain of ourselves.
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/7/2008 11:29:35 PM
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buckifn
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stores cater to greed and there is an awful lot of greed in most people today.....the amount of products we waste in this country is appalling. Yesterday I was behind a guy in line who purchased 17 packs of chewing gum @1.09 per pack. He could have bought 10 packs for $1.00
So I don't blame the store...it is the indiv. choice.
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/8/2008 11:40:50 AM
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But i dont get tricked. I read the article and the only one that perhaps gets me is when they have some delicious smelling food, then I may want some, but if it costs too much, then i dont.
but stores dont really trick me coz i dont have that much money on me to begin with, and so i usually just get what i want.
I dont stick to a list, but if I want something, i get it, its if I want it, not because i've been tricked.
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/8/2008 2:41:40 PM
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GroupW
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That's what I was thinking ....
(reaching for my aluminum foil beanie...)
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/8/2008 3:32:33 PM
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GroupW
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Nope! if i smell t he scent of Cinnabon cinamon rolls and then i go see it and then i see i have like $10 in my purse and I dont have to use that money for something else, I might go and get one!
LOL - why do you think they bake them in the stores and locate the stores in shopping mallls instead of making them down the road a mile and selling them in a grocery store!!!
BT
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/8/2008 5:03:54 PM
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IMA_CHRISTIAN
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yes true, and its something i truly want! if it were a cinamon covered mushroom, nope! you see it has to be something i really like -
each day i go past the Cinnabon store and even though it smells good, i have not bought one yet! now what should they do to make me buy something?
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/9/2008 4:57:41 PM
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bzirk
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We are constantly barraged with messages that encourage us to consume. The wisdom is being aware of this going on and having a plan and trying not to deviate from it no matter what comes our way -- even a "deal." I like the crack my dad used to make about "deals." He said, "Hey, I found a 'deal' the other day. It was a freight load of toothpaste, and it was such a good deal that the savings on it might make retirement. Not my retirement but someone's."  How many times do we buy "deals" and they are just dead weight? But hey it was a "deal."
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/9/2008 5:41:37 PM
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GroupW
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yes true, and its something i truly want! if it were a cinamon covered mushroom, nope! you see it has to be something i really like -
each day i go past the Cinnabon store and even though it smells good, i have not bought one yet! now what should they do to make me buy something?
LOL - I'm glad you have the willpower to overcome the urge. You have to admit, though, that their attempt at manipulation here is really quite powerful.
That's the point - corporations are full of really smart people that spend tremendous sums of money to pursuade you to make a purchase. They wouldn't spend that much money if it didn't work. It's the rare person who is immune to all that, and foolish for the rest of us to think we are not influenced to some degree.
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/9/2008 6:03:33 PM
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bzirk
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corporations are full of really smart people that spend tremendous sums of money to pursuade you to make a purchase. They wouldn't spend that much money if it didn't work. It's the rare person who is immune to all that, and foolish for the rest of us to think we are not influenced to some degree.
One of the best treatments of that manipulation is in the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" where the editor of the magazine explains why Andy likes a certain blue -- 'because someone in this room chose it for you a few seasons back."
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/9/2008 6:43:50 PM
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I have been in the mind set in the past years .if i work and i want it why not!! But as life has chaged our lifestyle we now live on a bugdet save for things and use no credit unless emerance. I have been a Die hard coupons cutter and use the online sites I have more food.HBA in our house that every before name brands for the frist time in our live. For free or less than half price on everything! I hve not bought pet food in over a year and they are sooo happy! It taken a year or so but if it was not for the hig gas we would be having a nice week vacation but we will bestaying close to home!Yes the store can teast us to buy but as we know it is free will! The best was I sened over 100 toothbrshes .tubles of toothpaste (Got it free or less than ,25)on a mission trip this summer, my goal for next summer is 200!
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/9/2008 6:46:40 PM
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bzirk
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Now that's a good reason to buy a freight load of toothpaste!
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RE: How Stores Get Your Bucks - 7/9/2008 7:07:28 PM
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naomigo
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well i can tell yeah folks this is so true i work at a groc. store and know all the groc. managers tricks and would yeah know they always have bins right as you walk in the door with all the junk buy one get one free so thats the first thing you see when you come in the door with your cart. load up all the non basic food s people cant live with out . and then yeah they do have food too on sale with the free one but its always the junk. becaues they know thats what people want and there kids.how sad. look at there waist lines. and most groc. stores will always have the bakery in the front so you see and smell all the sugary yum..and the guy before me said dont go to the store hungary..
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