The Fainting chair

Random crap that’s sometimes funny

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Aggressive sales techniques at chain stores, whats the point?

Selling techniques are getting more aggressive by the day but the real question is why are they legal? And why do we fall for them; well I’ve done some research and what I found was both amazing and shocking.

What prompted me to write this article was my first hand experience of these sinister techniques at Costa Coffee I’m sure anyone that has been in the coffee (Well what passes as coffee) shop has also experienced there threatening style of marketing.

I walked in and waited in the ridiculously large queue. Finally I got to the front and ordered a hot chocolate. As soon as the words “Hot chocolate please” came out of my mouth the waitress replied with “In a large?”
Straight away the very first interaction with a member of staff is used to deploy aggressive sales techniques. Instead of letting you make up your own mind on what size you would like to buy they tell you which size to...

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Why do people listen to this crap? DANCE MUSIC/DUBSTEP



Picture the seen, its a Saturday night your getting ready for a big night out with the guy/girls you wanna get really hyped up for whats to come. So you drink a few drinks, you choose your outfit, brush up on you chat up lines, practice them in the mirror with your most seductive expression (“Are you from Tennessee? because you’re the only ten I see.”) Pulling gear? check! inappropriate cringey lines at ready? check!
So with all that out of the way you think to yourself ‘Hmmm I wanna really get in the mood for tonight.’ So you put on some dance music e.g Avici or Disclosure ect. Now whats wrong with that? Nothing.

Now picture this scene, you’re on your way to work and you’re about to put the radio on to try to block out the mundane sounds of the angry commuters, you want to hear some music to put you at ease, or something to wake you up. Take your pic.
You flick on your default radio...

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