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Plan your purchases in advance and follow them with a partner.
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Hello Lifehacker! How not to fall for the tricks of marketers? For example, I'll go to the store and be sure to buy something that I don't need.
Alexander Naumov
Here are some effective ways from Lifehacker.
- Plan your purchases in advance. Pre-make a list of the products you need and in the store purposefully, without looking around, move to the necessary departments.
- Take the amount you need - no more. There should be enough money only for the purchase of the necessary goods. Seeing some chocolate bar at the checkout, you simply cannot afford it.
- Get in the habit of rounding up. The price tag with the inscription "99 rubles", according to some unknown laws of psychology, looks much more attractive than "100 rubles". Learn to see the whole price and immediately round it up.
- Eat a big meal before shopping. Fast food, mesmerizing meat labels, enticing smells - all of this will not be as appealing if you have a good meal at home.
- Based on your needs, not the price. Sellers have long understood that if the inscription "Discount" is glued to any product, then the demand for it will increase significantly. It doesn't matter if the people who bought it really needed it.
- Ignore ads. The high price of goods of popular brands is not at all a guarantee of quality. The brighter the advertisement of a product, the higher its price. This is elementary marketing: you pay to find out about a product.
- Go shopping with a partner. Give him a clear message: “Here is a list of things that are needed. Make sure we don't buy anything extra."
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