I am thinking, watso, that to get the super super markdowns one might sometimes have to shove and kick any other markdown hunters ( who also appear in the right place at the right time.)
Maybe even wrestle?
This could be entertaining to hard-hearted spectators, and would ‘quinella’ the winner with both the dopamine rush of bargain success AND an endorphin hit from physical activity?
…. An oxytocin trifecta if one truly lusts after the RTC item?
That retail jungle holds delights that are universal according to the psychology boffins in the spoiler here;
Excerpt :
… “No matter who one is, or where they shop, the good deals hold a very special power. But Why?
It seems that at some point, common sense should intervene and consumers should realize that it is not a good savings if they are buying something they weren’t in the market for – because even a discounted item costs more than the zero dollars that buying nothing costs.
But that, according to Kit Yarrow, PhD, a consumer psychologist and professor of psychology and marketing at Golden Gate University, is not actually how the human mind works.
"What you’re really hunting for is the thrill of a bargain, which is when I think a lot of consumers make mistakes. For people, maybe they don’t even have something in mind, they’re just craving that feeling of being a successful competitive force shopper," Dr. Yarrow told Refinery29. "In other words, they want the thrill of feeling like they scored a big victory."
University of Auckland Business School Associate Professor Karen Fernandez noted that a lot of this is also wired to evolutionary hunter-gatherer behavior in humans that is simply hard to knock off. "People want novelty. People like the fact they can hunt and find a bargain [that] maybe somebody else hasn't found."
And, Dr. Yarrow noted, retailers know that – and they know how to turn up those competitive feelings in shoppers by limiting supply and creating a time clock. Customers aren’t rewarded merely by getting the product at a good price, she noted – they are additionally pushed by the desire to win the commerce race.
"There’s a physiological response when we feel like we’ve won something, and I think people really look for that and want that, and Amazon Prime Day is just another day of the year when people feel like, 'Oh, I can get that thrill of winning, of getting something for less,'" Dr. Yarrow said. "When you do score something, it feels great, so you have this burst in dopamine, and people want that feeling again, and it causes a lot of shopping errors."
Errors, notably, that can be seen via a brain scan.“……https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2018/shopping-discount-stores-bargains-deals-pricing/
But RTC hunts are a necessity for some rather than a sport and I do hope, watso, it is sport that inspires your forays rather than any ongoing impact from those child support payments.
My bargain today was three large packs of fresh lamb chops priced as offcuts because they were mismatched in size and I guess the butchers did not want to turn them into sausages or meat pies.
Not the usual chicken necks, and no room in the freezer either so I’m guessing I was pushed into a “shopping error purchase” by my “desire to win the commerce race”
*sigh*
