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Why you buy stuff you don’t need

Posted by / January 1, 2018

We’ve all had this experience. We’re waiting in line at the grocery store, and we see a candy bar for sale. It’s just a buck, we tell ourselves, so we buy it. And the same thing gets repeated on much larger scales––we see a TV marked down to $600 from $1000 so we think, “I can’t afford not to buy it!” What causes us to make these impulse purchases? This video digs into the psychology of impulse buying.

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