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The shadow over consumers
Press Release: U of Alberta ^
| September 7, 2005
| University of Alberta
Posted on 09/09/2005 6:00:53 PM PDT by Cautor
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Is this a phenomena that affects FReepers, or only the weak-minded, like DUmmycrats?
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:00:54 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:03:11 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Cautor
Must be a Canadian disease.
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Perhaps it is a phenomena that only affects college kids--we know how impressionable they can be. Don't take it from me, ask all the lefty professors who mold them into new minted DUmmys every day all over the land.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:05:01 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: 302damnfast
"Must be a Canadian disease."
Like hoof in mouth. There are a lot of liberal Canadian pols who suffer from that.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:06:42 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor
I can't believe people actually do that.
I must live in a different world.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:06:45 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: adorno
"I can't believe people actually do that."
I think easy credit (I'm talking plastic here) makes things like this possible.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:10:07 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor
Gee. I buy Natural Light with no shame. Can I afford Bud Light? Yes, but I like value along with taste.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:27:00 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: Cautor
Gee. I buy Natural Light with no shame. Can I afford Bud Light? Yes, but I like value along with taste.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:27:36 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: buccaneer81
"Natural Light with no shame"
I've knocked down a few of those and think its very good beer. I also like Busch and Rolling Rock in bottles.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:30:09 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor
spend more money to buy a brand name item when someone they don't know is standing near them at the time they choose their purchase. There must be some very insecure people there.
I am a cheapskate and proud of it.
I buy a brand name only when it is actually better then the store brand. I shop at the Dollar Store for any number of things.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:31:34 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Vote for the Constipation Party! They will never pass anything)
To: Cautor
I've never known a group of people around me to influence my buying habits. I'll have to keep an eye open for that.
I'm pretty brand loyal, however. I'm also a victim of marketing -- snazzy graphics and the promise of "NEW TASTES" will always drive me. I'm almost always disappointed, but I never learn from it.
And then if it's a brand that I'm loyal to, making a "NEW TASTE" promise, I'm sunk. I've tried EVERY flavor of Pepsi introduced in the past 15 years, as well as EVERY flavor and type of M&M
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:34:23 PM PDT
by
birbear
(Admit it. you clicked on the "I have already previewed" button without actually previewing the post.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"Dollar Store for any number of things"
I agree. Their prices on many every-day items are very hard to beat. It's just that I'm embarrased to be seen going in there...aw, just kidding.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:40:50 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor
've knocked down a few of those and think its very good beer. I also like BuschI used to drink Busch (great value) until it gave me the runs. Natural Light has treated me well... so far ;-)
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:44:33 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: birbear
Most of us are susceptible to those things...otherwise the vendors wouldn't waste money on advertising and all that. I'm a sucker for those J. Peterman-type glossy catalogs we get in the mail every day. I can always see myself in that leather flight jacket sitting in an obscure bar somewhere along the road to Mandalay.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:48:53 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: buccaneer81
"gave me the runs"
Bush...are you shi**ing me?
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:50:19 PM PDT
by
Cautor
To: Cautor
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:51:04 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: Cautor
I'm just too damn old (42) now for the major beer thing. When I was 20, back in college, well let's just say I should have been locked up ;-)
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:53:44 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: Cautor
*snerk!*
Actually you can pick up some interesting stuff at those places and at Big Lots. Cloudberry jam at eight bucks a jar at an imported food store, no way. Cloudberry jam a dollar a jar at Big Lots, why not?
I like to try new stuff and am as susceptible to advertising as the next person I guess but I can think of nothing more silly then to spend more money for something just to impress someone who doesn't know me from Adam.
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posted on
09/09/2005 6:58:04 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Vote for the Constipation Party! They will never pass anything)
To: buccaneer81
Heck, you're really over the hill. So you liked that German brew huh? Ursa Major Beer I think they called it by its full name. We drank a lot of Pabst when I was in college, often in 16 oz cans which we referred to as a "tall Blue." Our guts were able to handle a lot of things then than give us the...well...you know....now.
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posted on
09/09/2005 7:01:30 PM PDT
by
Cautor
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