Ways You're Secretly Tricked By Companies 

could also be a setting. something like "automatic volume adjustment", it's usually on by deafult. if it's on the ads will be blarin, turn it off and everything stays at the same volume.

Commercials were already louder than shows, at least as far back as the ‘60s when I was a kid. Advertisers knew that viewers were likely to step into the kitchen or go to the bathroom during commercials. They wanted their ads to be heard. People were complaining about it even then.

I've noticed that for furniture and cars commercials in particular.

Music has more energy than regular human sound. Commercials are music in the background and human sound in the foreground. So naturally they pack much more energy than normal sound.

I’ve noticed that and find it really annoying that they do that!

woah, that's pretty shady! thanks for sharing

I work at McDonalds and it may vary of course depending on which one you work at but we actually fill our fries properly. I got 1 of each on multiple occasions and every time the Large was about double the amount of a small. And medium (as it should be) was about in between the small and large. But I wouldn’t put it past them that some or even most McDonalds do screw you over on the fries. Just saying mine doesn’t. Or at the very least management doesn’t chew us out. All of my managers are really nice actually. But once again product may vary.

@@obi-wankenobigoat Yeah the one I worked at in Kississimmee Florida near Disney they jumped all over me about opening the fry boxes all the way up. So I guess it depends on the McDonalds store you go to

You should also remember that McDonalds is a franchise so each individual restaurant have their own sets of rules from the manager. This is why management is different from restaurant to restaurant. You might be working with a shady manager who give less product so they can pocket more money or a super nice manager who give out food if there are leftovers at the end of the day.

@@Oyamada13 yeah he could just have a bad manager and I might have really good ones

A tv set in the store seems to have a better quality picture than the same tv set has in your home.

My brain associates people wearing masks with criminals.

Air bags are what pop out at you when you have a car accident.

I find it funny that these stores used these tactics for so long that people literally prefer to shop online just to avoid the overwhelm. Then they complain that no one shops in stores anymore. lol...

I hope this does not apply to thrift stores that for some reason still have their changing rooms closed!

And have you tried measuring yourself and then the clothes in the store by measuring one side of the outside and then multiplying by 2?

👋🏻hi

I ALWAYS buy snacks in even numbers. Basically how many I want, I buy twice that many because they’re about fifty percent air. ALL OF THEM Except maybe Pringles ‘cause they’re not in a bag.

It is a shame that they have to be pushed back by bigger corporations, our town used to be all mom and pop, small-town stores, but they have been going out of business lately, but at least people are fighting the addition of chain restaurants and shopping centers. I wish this video would not have to be a thing.

I just realized you already mentioned this now I feel dumb 🤦‍♂️

I agree totally. I hardly go inside to shop anymore. I order my groceries online, then pick them up a few hours later.

Yes I’ve become very impatient, as well. It’s too many people in the way just browsing mindlessly while I just want to get in and out, already knowing what I need but waiting for others to make a decision and move out of the way.

It was super frustrating during Covid restrictions when it took 4x longer to find basic items 🥴

Yeah, [that one supermarket] has a long line of products supposed to loop you around at least a third of the things until you get to pay, but when I only have a few bottles to bring back, I just walk through the open gates of the cash registers where there are no cashiers

I hate that stores have no windows it makes me feel closed into a shop anymore stressed so costermers with disabilitys just walk straight out so theyare actually losing money

I also hate that thing that he calls shrinkflation

You guys have grocery stores while we have sari-sari stores.

same my mom was spendign 100$ on tv a month and im like why not dro it and just use internet? its not like you HAVE to pay for netflix.

I havent had cable in almost 25 years. Dont miss it. Saved money! Reruns got old while paying more for it. Work too hard for my money.

Same here. Almost three decades of living without TV. I've always considered that 20 minutes of advertising for 40 minutes of program was a terrible yield.

I'm the same way , I also feel the same way about radio

it depends also on who your provider and what the package your using

Wow, didn’t know that. My local supermarket does that; now I know why!

That’s justified bullshit. If you make assumptions with no actually related evidence, that’s your own fault.

Priming 😮😮😮

My store has 2 entryways, 1 by produce with a Dunkin's and bakery on left of door floral to the right, the other door is self check out random cases of beverages & snacks frozen up ahead 'beauty products' seeing Dr Squatch on shelf smell like all the other soaps because if they are in the same tote before placed on the shelf and the ads state even the mailman will be jealous,I'm the guy if I have to get dish soap or laundry detergent find out what kind and enter the end closest to the product hold my breath and run, grab and run back, quickest isle I'd work in if forced to but pet is my extra I've got pasta/sauces canned veg and foreign food [rice, tacos, soy sauce get a giggle every time I see spotted dick, or cock soup, lately POMEGRANATE MOLASSES due to Shelby Shawarma vids and they say mayo is a sin like ketchup but the garlic sauce is just garlic MAYO!

Yeah it is bad enough that cartoons these days give kids a constant shot of dopamine with something happening every second. Kids these days have become too impatient for slow scenes. If something doesn't happen for 2 seconds they get bored. A movie like the Fox and the Hound would never make it today. Heck I showed Disney's Junglebook (the original) to a group of kindergarteners, and 10 seconds in where the movies is just music and still frames of the jungle at night, they already started losing patience. Asking "Is this all?" and "When does it start?"

In my state IT department, I always applied "The Scotty Principal", like engineer Mr. Scott on Star Trek.... always pad out time estimates for projects. Seldom turn in the project early, or the bosses will catch on. But if a problem occurs, I have time to complete it before the deadline.

​@lancerevell5979 nice

Hi Carol, Do you have any other tips or wise life tales to divulge please.....I just watched way of the house husband and I'm all about becoming a master of life and thinking outside of the box. SiDDERZzz

@@SIDDERZZZ what

Was only what? 🤔

@@ilumasytum I believe you have to elaborate on the reply of just "what". It's quite a vague thing to put. I mean it's just one word. If you were asking what about my reply to carol if she had any more interesting things or tips for improving then it basically meant pretty much how it was written.

@@GGamerLiam For some reason my comment was shortened quite a bit, so I resent it. Anyway the hour long show was only 36 mnutes.

Wagon Wheels. 'Nuff said!

Yup sir exactly

Exactly, when I noticed the Snickers shrinkage about 15 yrs ago, I'd called them on it & their customer service said that Snickers hasn't changed all these years. Lies! My childhood Snickers had a good balance of layers, now I struggle to see the caramel or peanuts.

ikr...im an 80's baby n i swear my generation is the last to get the goodness

As a fan of Doritos, I'm terribly disappointed on the packaging ...it wasn't even full, the rest are just air

*SCP 3008 SCP3008 SCP 3008 SCP 3008 SCP 3008* insane memories of The Staff and the Infinite Ikea*

Ikea is easy, just walk back to front, use the shortcuts. When I need to pick something up inside the store, I am out in 5 minutes. You can also enter between cash registers. There is a special path for this. People also just go to the closest line at ikea. Not the shortest, the closest. Even if that's the self checkout, that's weirdly slower, even there are 4 scanners instead of one. In supermarkets people actually use the shortest line and self checkout is actually faster. Weird how this differs.

I don't know about you, but personally when I do go to IKEA I go there just to look around bc it's fun. You rarely need a whole new set of furniture anyways. Never been to one that big though.

I went to an Ikea ONCE to look for a new computer desk. Took almost a fricking hour (not joking) to get through the maze of furniture displays before finally coming to the large warehouse looking room, then another 10 minutes just to find the desk. And less than a year later, it already looked horrible due to the 'wood grain paint' having peeled off half of it, and the support bar on the back broken. Yeah, never going to that hellhole again.

oh! dont even get me started about ikea.... i got lost in there for like 3 hours... and i couldnt find the exit!

I was going to comment on this but, you’ve said everything I wanted to say. I was familiar with a chunk of them. But the thing about mirrors with the Australia lady that surprised me. Not a lot, but enough to raise my eyebrows

Corporations are the presence of evil in the modern world. Never trust them. Never believe them. Vote for people who favor regulating them.

I once purchased a bottle gluten-free water. I wish I was joking.

yes

Well, to be fair, the "gluten free" tag is still extremely useful for those with gluten allergies/sensitivities(Not talking about the fad diet). There are a lot of products out there that appear to have nothing with gluten, but may actually have been produced in a facility that allowed for cross contamination. For people that are extremely sensitive, even a trace amount might cause a reaction that could lead to internal bleeding. I don't have the allergy, but my mother does, and you really don't realize how useful that label is until you have to make sure that just about everything has it or you have to tediously double check with a chart/forums online. While you still can't 100% trust labels because of poor regulations, that little label does have a purpose other than just tricking you. Some examples of not always gluten free products that seem gluten free are some cheese sauces and some flavors of Fritos. If they don't have the label, then they probably weren't on the specifically gluten free factory line.

yeah, my dad and I often joked about that. "Oh sorry dad, we have to stop buying peanut butter. It's now gluten free. So is the salsa." Yeah, the salsa and peanut butter jars both really said 'gluten free' on them

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All that packaging says "sold by volume, not weight".

@@djp411 if the bag says it contain 12oz it SHOULD contain 12oz

@@djp411 Uh, it actually says the opposite, products like potato chips are sold by weight and not volume. The weights are usually quite accurate for things like Doritos (there could be serious consequences for misrepresenting the actual weight of the product), but occasionally a "defective" bag will slip through and make it into the wild. No manufacturing or quality assurance process is perfect.

@@megachonk9440 _"but occasionally a "defective" bag will slip through and make it into the wild."_ Here in the Netherlands, those lots often make it to our version of the 'Dollar store', I believe. Those, misprints or stray shipments (localized for countries on the other end of europe). It's kinda fun, reading the back of chocolate bars in Lithuanian.

those fruit measuring scales are not nearly accurate should have gone to the butcher counter and weighed it i doubt the fruit scales are even corrected once in their life even after years of use even my dialysis center has two electronic scales and sometimes one is .01 kg off from the other

Yeah

Do the trick of saying the creators name 3 times so u can get pinned

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Weird Flex But Okay

Yea its just 1 fuckin cent less lol

@John and Sasha Davis That does make it seem like there is a better reason for it.

@John and Sasha Davis Μaybe it was just in your company cause here i see even old products that we buy for years to have the 99 price

That actually started out as a way to keep cashiers honest. It forced them to ring up the sale to open the drawer and make change, so it was at least harder to pocket the money and not record the sale.

It's the same in the UK but it's printed so small nobody looks. I used to work in retail so I'm always checking

Same here in Quebec. We have the prices marked with a sticker on the shelf but underneath the regular price tag, there’s an amount per 100g to compare with other products. (ex : 0.10$ per 100g)

This is good but there are still sneaky companies- Like a salsa company watered down their salsa so they dont have to decrease the size and we know this because the calorie per serving went down (without the amount per serving going down) and having "water" listed as the first ingredient

@@SaraLilyRose most people are too stupid to have the patience to actually read them, but this is nothing new, it's been happening since the 60's and it's becoming more frequent.

Most stores in the US do the same but super small font. I always check and it’s amazing to me that the larger size isn’t always the best price!

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Kohl's "stunt pricing" pisses me off.

But then again there is the concept of priming. The reason why a lot of these ads don’t actually sell something in particular because they are showcasing their brand to promote recall.

Let's start the lawsuits then

When I worked at a Hardware store back in 1972, the Boss had a 25% off paint SALE on Saturday. He and I spent all Friday night jacking up the prices by 25%

💯% true, 💯% agreed. It's more subtle on lesser items like electric pressure washers, micro 'fridges, blankets, comforters, & other things in that price range, isn't it? The obvious examples are when new car dealers advertise ridiculous discounts that you know are just vaporous stupidity: *"$10,000 OFF MSRP! !"* Or, *"SAVE SAVE SAVE! SELLING AT $2,000 UNDER DEALER'S INVOICE! ! !"* I would like to think that _ANYONE_ over the age of 25 who's been in the working world awhile & has shopped for a new car more than just once can see right through such gimmickry. Because no car manufacturer in their right mind is going to set a price for any new car that's _ten thousand dollars_ over & above fair market value, which is determined by the natural market force of what people are actually willing to pay for that particular car. Anyone with half a brain knows how quickly that manufacturer's competitors would exploit such an inflated price, & they wouldn't be able to sell very many chevy cavaliers at that price (a hypothetical example) when all a new car buyer has to do is opt for a ford focus or a dodge neon for $10,000 less than that cavalier Additionally, even in the worst of economic times, _NO CAR MANUFACTURER_ has ever given it's dealers an internal rebate or discount in even the $1,000 range. How much less likely at $2,000 off! That's a historic fact, Jack!

yep and the best "Deals" i fidn are acualy before or aroudn haloween and the black friday is false as in more expensive than haloween near time.

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Traded a tv for youtube.... ok.

You could always buy a TV and use it as a monitor for your laptop, tablet, or computer, that's what I did anyway! I too never watched cable TV anymore and would spend the majority of my time at home on my laptop, but I missed having a big TV screen to watch movies on.. I had thought about buying a newer smart TV because all I watched was youtube, but i didn't like how you could only use one app at a time, or how apps like youtube don't show the comment section etc. sooooooo, I went to BestBuy and bought two 50 inch Insignia TV's and I hooked my Surface Pro tablet up to one in my living room via an HDMI cable, and the other in my bedroom up to my laptop also via HDMI cable, and I just post up on the couch, or in my bed with a wireless keyboard and mouse using them as a monitor! (; I can literally watch youtube, netflix, even cable tv, and still check work, email, browse Facebook or instagram, and shop on Amazon all at the same time and I absolutely LOVE having a set up like this in both rooms! Anyway, I just thought I'd toss an idea your way so you can enjoy watching your series, or being on your laptop a little more conveniently. :)

@@rockstarbmf9595 What a great idea!

They are PURPOSELY putting in more sugar , cause they are in cahoots with the pharmaceuticals. They get you hooked on sweeteners and then you become a diabetic. You go to the doctor's who's also in on the game, he issues diabetic crap. They dont give a foook about your health, that's why they put corn syrup sweetener instead of natural sugar. Corn sweetener is dirt cheap, but fooks up your health. Dam bastards

I feel ya :)

Low sugar means artificial sweeteners, which might be ok for diabetics but they arent actually healthy to eat either.

i was diabetic ... made a commitment to cut sugar to near 0% and 3 years down the lane i cut carb to 10%. i eat fat, meat, lotsa vegetables, eggs, fresh milk and products ... now I am free of medication .... talk to your doctor. Don't ever buy industrialized food ....

@@kalaimuthu Well done, gyuess it's type 2 you had? Type 1 doesn't really work that way.

I work at a grocery store and it's as annoying as it is for you as a customer as it is for me.

Amen!

I end up getting giving up trying to find stuff and leave half without getting half of what I wanted.. So for me, I spend LESS becuase I cant find anything and go elsewhere!

These sorts of tactics only further keep me shopping online. It's incredible that these companies are only shoving their customers into going elsewhere and seem completely oblivious. In a day when brick and morter stores are closing left and right, you'd think they would realize forcing customers into an uncomfortable shopping experience is, shall we say, counter-productive.

Same. If anything I find the change of pace exciting as, while I have to map the store in my head all over again, it is nice to see something new.

So much this. I don't know how long it's been since I watched a show while it was being broadcast.

I do not watch television because of the advertising. I try to keep my home as much of an ad-free place as much as possible, as it is so good for mental health. I block ads on my web browsers so I can't see them. I pay to not see them.

My dad paid for no ads but he still gets ads😕

I haven't had cable since 2011. I don't miss it at all, and I almost NEVER see ads.

So true

Coffee makes me go crazy, so I will gladly refuse coffee in that donut shop and opt for cocoa instead.

When I go into a store to buy donuts, I go in with the intent to ONLY get 1 doz. to take home. At home I ration myself to two (or just one if they are large enough) per day until gone. I do the same when I buy chocolate but it's a bit harder to ration my chocolate. ;-) As for coffee, I hate coffee & will only drink it if it's cold & I'm tired of hot tea or cocoa. But even then only one cup because, as I hate the taste so much, I end up having to use too much sugar & cream to make it palatable. As for coins, I just save those to use at the stores that say they're 'short' on change. But more often than not, I will use a debit card and just round up when I balance my checking register/account. All the 'extra' cents get put into a column called 'float' to be saved up until I have $20 or $30 to transfer to savings. Or be used for something I budgeted for, which ends up costing a bit more than I expected to pay.

lol you don't have to pay to remove ads on youtube, use adblocker, I do and never seen an advert on here in years!

the size thing is difficult to get around. IDK about mens clothing as much since they use actual measurements for pants but for womens clothing it's crazy how much it has changed. Plus things vary so much from different stores it's ridiculous. I have clothes that range from size 18 to 3x that fit. It takes the convenience out of online shopping b/c the size charts are generally for an hour glass shaped person (which I am not) so I have no idea what size to buy most of the time and would spend less time actually driving to the store to try it on that deciphering the size chart and trying to find reviews/pics of people who are similar to my size/shape. It's infuriating actually.

The thing with the jeans is that if they didn't adjust the size, more people would complain that they don't fit but others brands this size do.

Same!!

@@RealityAlwaysWins Same. Adverts drive me crazy especially when around 98% of them hold absolutely no interest for me. I can't imagine going back to watching mainstream commercial TV either. Being told what I can watch & when holds no appeal. And the variety of shows available in each country is dismal in comparison to having the entire world's viewing range at my disposal.

what if the bar stops? but its loading? wouldnt it be more effective just show that spinning thing that shows something went wrong if it stops?

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@@sheepriderkiller1181 Kind of. A lot of progress indicators (bar, percentage, etc.) can also have an animated "processing" indicator. Microsoft updates have I think 6 dots that appear from nowhere, go around in a circle twice, and disappear where they reappeared, and then repeat. The rainbow wheel on Apple products (is that even still around?), and so on. If it's not meant to be a lengthy process (such as starting a program), often just the animation is enough to let the user know that it's working and not frozen. Similarly, video games can often use intros that require minimal resources to run while the game itself is loading in the background; if it's just a simple menu UI, more detailed intros can be buffered and usually can be immediately skipped, whereas if it is going to drop you into an interactive hub after the intro, it will sometimes be a simple slideshow, and may have voice lines and subtitles, and it will need some time before it lets you skip it; sometimes there can be another loading screen that is simply connecting you to a live server that is hosting multiple players on the same instance of the hub. The only example off the top of my head of the latter, is The Cycle: Frontier, where it uses voice lines to explain the game's setting, and a slideshow of pictures to emphasize that setting; there's of course an indicator with various dots spinning around in a circle, but you can't always immediately skip the intro unless you have a lightning fast computer, and then when you do, you hit an actual loading screen showing promotional art for the game's current season. When you fully drop in, you're on a space station that is a live server, containing several other players that have also just connected or have finished a session of gameplay. Essentially, this kind of "trickery" is more of an accommodation of expectations than anything else.

Ah, now I know why. I thought it's just me getting older. I'm gonna go 18 for a few months now. And I'm anxious at being adult. Seeing these things(the videos and things about facts) just makes me go cray cray. Like really, I thought chocolates or anything just get smaller because I get bigger. These just makes me want to study accounting more which I don't have passion about. Guilt tripping me that I need to do this before pleasure.

I had a Pepsi addiction until they changed the taste of it and upped the price; I don’t buy it anymore!

The contents contains. Coconut oil, sage leaf, Glyceyl….. you know what it’ll also contain?…… to press the subscribe button. 😂

I just wanna say, I'm a huge fan

That's the same as groceries putting milk all the way in the back, to maximize being tempted by all the stuff you'd need to pass (both ways) by.

also that video you just saw theres a part that says to you like and subscribe

Even here in the Netherlands. Like how our drugstore has the cosmetics in a corner in the back, straight line from the entrance. They make a beeline there, then remember they came for painkillers and tampax. So take the next aisle over, blindly grab tampax mid-sidestep, then straight on to checkout. _But _*_THEN_* a _colorful_ Full Frontal Eyeful of _deodorants and shampoos_ (cleverly tucked in their looping aisle). Then, Finally grab the aspirine mid-step, _only_ to get tempted into a (frankly) tiny "loop 'de perfume" next to checkout. This all in such a tiny store, It's amazing; its just some arrows and meatballs short of being the IKEA Experience.

Another trick stores do is put their preferred items, the ones they want you to buy, at eye level so it's the first thing you see. The less expensive and discounted brands are always placed low on the shelf where you're more likely to overlook them.

@@Durwood71 True!

Worse one I found to be a complete waste of money is there drain cleaner which seems to be mostly water

@@stevesteve7815 Yeah, I only shop there for my vacation rentals which I have many. It is good for stocking up on basic supplies to get guests started and that is a case where we are not trying to by large sizes because we supply starter supplies of paper towels, detergents, etc. and the guests replenish themselves when they run out. But yeah, was always nice they were $1 like the store name implies. Very disappointed they raised prices AND used shrinkflation on many items too.

I don’t shop Dollar Tree much, now once they added in the extra quarter!

u are able to change it just look at the toblerone 9:43 just strike when they change the size and they'll either have to change it back or lose more money than they gain

Also their 6-inch sandwich "deals" are now the same price as their footlong deals were 5 years ago

i wish i were you 💀

Actually it has happened at the dollar store for me. I used to be able to buy 20oz name brand drinks but now theyre in 16oz cans for the same (although recently increased) price.

@@adamallred58 at my dollar store the sizes stayed the same but it’s not 1.25$

@@anthony21roman No, Dollar Tree detergent increased to $1.25 (along with all their other $1 items) AND the laundry detergent shrank by a whopping 33% too!

Same

Me too! I despise anything to do with coconut.

I hate coffee, so clearly my mom didn't drink it xD