Morbid obese people

[JP_]

Probably true of many people, but certainly not me.

You'd be surprised. For example - a fast food shop only needs a person to pass by once while hungry - if they buy something, then each time they walk buy their brain will subconsciously remind them "look, food, you need food" and they are more likely to go again.

We are creatures of habit. So many people claim not to be affected by market.

If I need something, I do my own research

How, on the Internet? Yes, we know how people research, and how to influence buying making decisions

This is a good example.

If you've not seen it. watch it all, don't read any spoilers.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

This is a good example.

If you've not seen it. watch it all, don't read any spoilers.

That needs considerable skill, far more than a sales person would possess. Even when I go in a shop where they have sales people, I dismiss then with 'I'm just looking', if they don't go away at that, I walk out.

I never buy food 'on the go' I only make conscious pre-arranged decisions to eat out, I never buy take-aways. I have had one Mac in the past 5 years, one take-away in the past 10. I do though, dine out frequently, usually twice per week, always they are at special prices, 2 for 1 etc., always a conscious decision.

Yes, I do my research on the Internet and much of the none food I buy are Internet purchases, bought on the back of a lot of research on cost versus features value versus what I actually need. My last big purchase last Christmas was a replacement big screen TV. It wasn't a distress purchase, rather I had been thinking to replace my dumb old plasma for at least the previous 12 months, with something Smart. I spent a casual month looking at TV costs, specs. and specialist reviews to help make a decision. Then moved on to what was available. I ended up with a previous years model, for a touch over 1/3 the retail cost, but with a much higher spec. than I had planned from a clearance store.

 

[JohnD]

Have you got a car?

When a place has a "2 for 1" offer, do you think they are being charitable, or trying to entice customers in? Do they pay their waiters and cooks double, for serving two meals? Do they have to buy an extra chair? Or are their costs about the same?

Do they bring in customers they wouldn't otherwise get?

Do their customers sometimes buy drinks?

Does their marketing ploy work?

 

[Notch7]

I ended up with a previous years model

I bet you bought the extended warranty

 

[festive]

The fact is it’s easier to put on than take off. 3,300kcal of exercise to burn 1lb of human fat. That is 6 hours of working out fairly hard for the avg man.

I’ve found the best way to stay at the correct weight is to cut food to one small meal a day, twice a week. This allows me the odd Chinese curry or pizza at the weekend.

Absolutely, which is why i laugh at these transformation in 6 weeks bs Personal trainer adverts, you will only lose fat and at best tone, not build muscle and be ripped all in 6 weeks even with GH and every steroid known to man. Chip away or you rebound agree.

 

[sodthisforfun]

I don't watch any TV, so I don't see ads (the few things I watch are online). I have ad blocker on the web, I don't buy papers. I am veggie so driving past places like McDismals don't do anything for me.

But don't go shopping when hungry. That's just fatal for quick, sugary or high fat grub ending up in my basket! In fact, the only time I give into a deal, and am aware of it, is if I go for a tesco sarnie. If I buy the 'meal deal', which includes a drink and a packet of crisps and there were no deal, I'd not get the crisps.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I bet you bought the extended warranty

I have never bought a single extended warranty on anything, ever.

I can only think of one item in the past 20 years, where I could have claimed on an extended warranty. That was a washing machine, which failed just beyond its 12 month warranty. I fixed it myself, at a cost of 12p, for a higher quality (temperature) capacitor. I have repaired various other minor failures since then on it and I guess it must be 10 years old now.

Next question please?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Have you got a car?

When a place has a "2 for 1" offer, do you think they are being charitable, or trying to entice customers in? Do they pay their waiters and cooks double, for serving two meals? Do they have to buy an extra chair? Or are their costs about the same?

Do they bring in customers they wouldn't otherwise get?

Do their customers sometimes buy drinks?

Does their marketing ploy work?

Car, yes of course, now I just have the one car? I used to have my car, company car and a big motorbike, why?

They do still make money on the 2 for 1, but obviously not as much as they would otherwise. Much better than paying 1 for 1. Their cost are a little more than 1 for 1.

Usually the idea of the 2 for 1, is to help even out the customer load, through the week. One local pub does a 'big plate £5 special' on a Monday, where you can have what they normally charge £9 or £10 for on the other days of the week. They also offer a 'pensioners special' for £4.50 around half the size. Its really no contest, I have the big plate special and take along a plastic take away for my two dogs. I rarely eat more than half of the 'big plate'. They do a similar, but different deal on the Tuesday. They only see us on the Monday or the Tuesday. Yes I buy one drink, but they are one of the cheaper places to have a drink in the area, yes I know they still make a profit on it, but there is no requirement to buy a drink. Every establishment does have to turn a profit.

 

[JP_]

That needs considerable skill, far more than a sales person would possess.

But the principles are used in marketing - a lot of the messages were around the room, abstract, but designed by experts to get into your head.
Politicians do the same thing of course. Hitler was the first master of subliminal marketing, but now they all do it.

Done well it can make people believe that they are in full control of their own decisions.

 

[ic1927]

FATTIES. Buy only Russian Alphabetti spaghetti as there are only 22 letters in the Cyrillic alphabet. Just watch the pounds fall off.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

But the principles are used in marketing - a lot of the messages were around the room, abstract, but designed by experts to get into your head.
Politicians do the same thing of course. Hitler was the first master of subliminal marketing, but now they all do it.

Done well it can make people believe that they are in full control of their own decisions.

I treat everyone, until I know them better, as a liar. I trust no one, especially not politicians. I have an extreme distrust of the two main contenders in the frame at the moment for PM.

 

[Ian H]

I really dont like fat people, i mean proper fatties. They p1$$ me off.

There is one i see where i frequent for breakfast, she now has a walking stick, and every morning has a massive fry up that barely fits in her fold up kebab style pouch. She huffs n puffs over to the cashier and gives an efforted puffing 'goo morni..' huff huff in a tone as if this is all such an effort.
Then i hear her talking to someone suggesting pain killers for their bad neck because she takes them for her knees and hips (i wonder why you FF!).

So she must be at least 20 stone easy, hardly able to walk, is on painkillers yet still has a cooked breakfast,

Did you get her number? She sounds FAF!!

 

[JP_]

I treat everyone, until I know them better, as a liar. I trust no one, especially not politicians. I have an extreme distrust of the two main contenders in the frame at the moment for PM.

Who made you distrust them? ....

 

[ellal]

You'd be surprised. For example - a fast food shop only needs a person to pass by once while hungry - if they buy something, then each time they walk buy their brain will subconsciously remind them "look, food, you need food" and they are more likely to go again.

We are creatures of habit. So many people claim not to be affected by market.

I once knew an advertising bigwig...

He loved to boast that up to 30% of the sales of the products they dealt with were bought by people who didn't like/want what was being 'pushed in their faces', as he put it ...

But that once tried, up to 25% of that number would apparently become a repeat buyer!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Soon I will be taking a drive to collect haddock+chips+peas from our local chippy. I sometimes go there, total cost will be £3.40 per serving. They are amongst the best I have ever tasted. Another local chippy does the same for £8, which oft times tend to be not quite as good as the £3.40 ones.

The £3.40 chippy has a sign board outside advertising their wares, but for years I ignored them, thinking the quality would be less - I was wrong.