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They've got you hooked.
- Retail is rife with strategies to get you to spend more, whether you're shopping in a brick-and-mortar store or online.
- Retailers also have tricks to make you use up their products faster.
- Those tactics include offering free shipping, encouraging bulk purchases - and even making the holes in eye drop bottles bigger, so you run out fast.
Retailers are smart. They know your weaknesses and how to capitalize on them.
So every time you go shopping - online or IRL - you're being taunted by infinite reasons to buy more, more, more.
Below is a list of some of the most creative (and frankly, impressive) strategies stores use to make you overspend and run out of products faster. Read on to avoid getting tricked.
