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Why does everything cost x.99?
| Not American. Can't relate with your capitalism. Glory to the eternal leader o7, river fury bless
| Studies show that people perceive less precise numbers as smaller, is what I heard.
| >>1010952 weird
I always assume that something that costs 7.99 is just 8.0
>>1010949
This applies in EU too
| >>1010946 is because your brain is dumb and reads 7 oh that's less than 8 I'll get this one unless you think about it for more than a millisecond
| Psychology in grocery stores is a big thing, like that smell at target when you walk in they spent millions to engineer and test
| >>1010956
> I always assume that something that costs 7.99 is just 8.0
Only if you give it more than millisecond of thought. They're banking on enough people not doing that
| it's just picking on lazy and new people visiting. so the value of the products are always confusing unless you put a bit of effort to use the math.
and this >>1010960 , placements are very impactful too.
as an example vegetables usually show up early so you can feel less bad when you see candies later.
| the candies are usually closest to the checkout so you might impulsively pick one up before you regret it or while waiting in line
| exactly
| i used to be guilty of doing that before the stores moved the more expensive candy closest to the checkout lines and thus my inner cheapskate prevailed
| Because $1699.99 vs $1700
| >>1011002 ohh shit is that *** a 0.1 cheaper?
fuck yeah, let's buy 10
but yeah see a number under a 1700 activates the consumer neuron and made us this it's way cheaper
| >>1011019 if you bought something pricing $1699.99 1700 times, you'd get an extra one basically for FREE compared to something pricing $1700
change my mind
| it exists to make my hello kitty g/u/rlfriend only peek at the price to tell me how many dollars she *needs* to remove from my account on her three new plushies each other day
| but yea, its as everyone says; to make the ignorant who dont think too much make a quicker decision my seeing a smaller number
most of the time, those people are the ones who arent paying and just grabbing for others to pay like kids and aforementioned significant others
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| Are they hoping for profit from your unwanted cents? I pay with card btw