Marketing products and double speak? What do you think?

   / Marketing products and double speak? What do you think? #22  
Advertising is, most generally, to sell not to educate.
Not even that. Most of it is to keep the brand name in the foreground. For example, I don't think I've ever seen an ad for an Apple product that made any sense whatsoever, sometimes not even sure what it is they're advertising. Yet it seems to work.
My wife's contribution to this: Most sales at Kohls are on items otherwise carrying jacked up prices.
Most sales, period. Witness Harbor Freight.
Another company with constant phony "sales" is toyota...seems every month there are "hurry this special ends soon!" ads. Soon as that promotion ends there's another one.
Maybe 30 years ago while between jobs I worked at a supermarket. Not counting seasonal produce promotions (usually in-season items the distributor gave the store a good buy on), most of the "sale" items were ones that the price was going up on the following week.
Tracfone plays this silly game, whereby, as you are refilling your minutes, it always asks you if you have a bonus code. I use to look for these, then discovered that it makes no difference at all. Everyone gets the bonus minutes anyway. :)
I also have a Tracfone, and I believe those bonus minutes are tied to the phone. Mine's just a flip-phone, but it triples the minutes on the card. Don't know if that's true for their smartphones or not...don't have one.
Never got any of those bonus codes to work.
 
   / Marketing products and double speak? What do you think? #23  
Well, they coulda pulled the old burger joint trick...

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**pre-distilled weight
 
   / Marketing products and double speak? What do you think? #24  
I dont know.... although they look a lot alike !

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A young Pierre Trudeau on the left, a young Fidel Castro on the right.
 

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