10 Things Your Grocery Store Doesn't Want You to Know

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health freak — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:52:23 GMT

Yes , these are some of the tricks to manipulating the consumer buying more of what they want . Well they as marketeers are well within their right to make strategies which increase the business. One of the latest trends is to provide soft and easy credit , free offers to create a brand loyalty even if it may be confined to the particular purchase only.

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health freak — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:52:20 GMT

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mountaingb — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:57:06 GMT

Recently, when I went to the supermarket, my 2-year old saw a box of Trix cereal and wanted to get it because he said it is "fun" cereal. He doesn't watch much TV and when he does, doesn't see commercials. He's never seen the Trix rabbit before except when he saw him on the box that day. Marketing is very deceptive and tricky and especially aimed at our children. I used the opportunity to explain to him that "fun" cereal is not good for our bodies and talked with him about the things that are. It's hard on him-his peers and even his cousins eat that poison, and it is really hard when he can't have what they are having. On the same note, I have made it a routine to go to the farmer's market each week and he absolutely looks forward to this! We, as parents do have a strong influence on our children and can use that for their betterment.

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RamKrishna — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:31:02 GMT

You have to reach for healthier foods: Popular junk foods are usually placed right at eye level, meaning you usually have to reach up or down to get to healthier items.

This one should be the first and in the bold latters.

Points are very important.

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Young Health 4 Life — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:21:54 GMT

Truth is healthy...seems like an oxymoron to me with your negative, sarcastic, demeaning remarks. And your point is?

I am open to learning and listening. I hope you are also. I would truly like to hear your take on Wal-Mart after you do some research on the way they treat their staff.

Until I hear otherwise, I am boycotting the store, and looking forward to reading other helpful information from educated readers on how to save money while purchasing wholesome, organic, biodynamic, locally grown foods.

About the money spent on such food upfront? UCLA research recently showed that for every $1.00 spent on preventive health care, $14.00 was saved on health care down the road. So how expensive is real food since that is the only fuel upon which the body was designed to run in the first place?

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Young Health 4 Life — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:10:44 GMT

PS to Russ' comments! Our local farmers market which started 30 years ago has always been fresh but not organic. We are lucky enough now to have a great organic produce booth as well as a booth promoting meats from pasture raised animals!!

Even the Farmers' Markets are getting the broad vision/picture.

We speak with our dollars. It is no coincidence that our truly healthy choices are increasing!!

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Kellrae — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:16:22 GMT

I'm surprised I haven't seen anything about the music in stores. The elavator style of music is designed to slow you down. The slower you go, the more you will put in your cart. Sometimes you will hear contemporary music. This is to make you feel happy. Most cont. selections are about love or passion. If your thinkin' of your loved ones, you'll throw something in the cart for them. Restaurants are the opposite. They play faster music so you will eat in a hurry and leave. This way, the turnover of customers will be greater.

I, too, worked at WallyWorld. We had an manager in training that would always leave the marketing sheets laying in the breakroom. The things I learned that I hadn't really noticed before...

It has made me a wiser consumer.

The thing about Walmart isn't so much what they sell as someone mentioned. It's how they treat the manufacturers of their products. A company (we'll say it sells socks) signs a contract with Walmart. Walmart takes so much of it's time and merchandise, that the mom and pop sock business may lose other clients to keep up with WM's demand. The company sells socks for a $! a pair to WM. Everything is great. Then time to renew the contract comes around. WM tells Sockland, "Hey, we've decided to lower our price of your socks. We're selling them for .60 a pair now.So you will have to lower your price to us." Now Sockland's biggest account is WM and if they lower their price, they can't afford to stay in business. If they don't sign with WM, their business is gone as well. Sockland has to do what many other manufacturers do who sell to WM. THey outsource their work to other countries to be able to meet WM's demands. People here lose jobs. Other people gain jobs, though, but not in the towns where the business is based. It's just a big vicious cycle. You can shop at Walmart or not. I'm sure other companies do the same. Just Walmart is so big that they are a natural target.

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KAC — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:40:20 GMT

It seems like I am the only one in a conventional store who reads the ingredients first before buying!! I was at Trader Joes and a herbal supplement had sucralose in it. I couldn't believe it!!!!!

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healthstar — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:02:51 GMT

Unfortunately, people do need to be stated the obvious over and over again. For some of us, these tips are common sense, but others need to be told the obvious many times over before they realize that living healthy and preventing diseases is really pretty simple.

Mirdza

www.MirdzasHealthSite.com

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david — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:57:57 GMT

here is a simple rule for buying good food....

If it has a label ....with a list of ingredients on it....DONT BUY IT!!

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Truth is Healthy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:57:04 GMT

File under: duh

My goodness, what evil doth lurk. Marketing happens, doesn't it Doc. Like when you conveniently have a product to sell after letting us poor saps know the next on the list of that which wil kill us.

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Dr. Randy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:12:43 GMT

Watch the DVD "The High Cost of Low Prices." I was a Wal-Mart shopper too until I saw that video and a news report that they were falsely labeling factory farmed food as organic. When I hear, "I can't afford to shop anywhere else!" then my response is, "Did you eat BEFORE Wal-Mart moved into your town?" I shop elsewhere and find good food at the same or better prices than Wal-Mart. I find most everything at competitive prices elsewhere in town. Wal-Mart has done an excellent job of brainwashing people into thinking they can't find a better selection or better prices elsewhere. Their practices are deceptive and predatory and I've seen too many family-owned businesses go out of business because of Wally World.

Where do you think their prices will go once they've clobbered the competition? When you have no other options in town, they can charge what they want. Yet Americans will continue to blindly shop there thinking they're still getting a great deal.

Gee, it might take some effort in order to spend the same amount on groceries, oil changes, eyeglasses, and toilet paper but other companies do compete! You might not be able to buy your hair dryer, bicycle, and shredded carrots all in the same store but you won't spend more by NOT shopping at Wal-Mart. Your community will be better for it.

On a side note, I used to work retail. Manufacturers actually pay national retailers to place their products in a specific spot on the shelf. If it's a high profit item for the manufacturer, the retailer will take payola to place it at eye level. Usually this means that the retailer is not making much money on that product. This is the reason that, for example, drug stores push their own brands. They cost pennies to make and even though the consumer is saving money, the store is making a larger profit margin. Wal-Mart is no exception to this!

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millnatm — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:28:37 GMT

Also some pre-prepared foods, such as steaks and fish, that are pre-seasoned and prepared "ready for the grill" are packed with things like "high fructose corn syrup", or "hydrogenated cotten-seed oils", MSG ect. Look at the ingridients these items have. It is better to not be tricked by these high priced, chemical containing items and just prepare your own food.

NMM