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Saying Prices Are Too Good To Show

As I am starting to see all the leaked flyers for next week’s sales, there are various companies who are simply not advertising its prices. Instead, they put labels on the products stating things such as “Too Low to Show” or “Too Hot To Tell” in hopes that it will encourage you to go to […]

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A Smart Consumer or A Dumb Shopper

I was watching this segment about food labels today and how for the most part a lot of the health claims on packages are more for marketing purposes. Not too surprising overall. What stood out to me was the comment that labelled people into categories where you are either a consumer or a shopper. In […]

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Extremely Cheap Rates For Referral Advertising

I found this kind of interesting today as the barber shop I normally went to had a change of ownership not too long ago. The fee for a haircut was about $20 on average for people before and now the new owner is charging $12. That’s a pretty big price change that even surprised me. […]

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Just Making Something Extremely Cheap

I saw this Burger King ad online today where in Canada there is apparently a promotion where people can buy 10 pieces of nuggets for $1.79. I think everyone can agree that is pretty darn cheap. It was interesting to read how so many people who normally would stay away from fast food mentioned that […]

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Making It Fun To Watch For Advertising

This appears to be an old video but it was so funny and interesting from a marketing point of view I thought that others who haven’t may be interested. Kind of clever in many ways as usually for things like this companies would simply push information in a hard sell sort of way. This was […]

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Confusing Brand Label Similarities

While in the supermarket today I did my usual price comparison to see if there were any new deals to be found. I decided to look at the sardines as there was usually a brand that costs about 67 cents per can. However, I was surprised when I saw that the price was labelled as […]

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