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#14188851 - 03/26/11 08:19 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Anyone else have a tendency to feel guilty when taking food and not providing something for it?
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14188874 - 03/26/11 08:23 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I feel guilty at myself for allowing myself to give in to temptation and risk being hooked on a particular product...
how could you possibly feel guilty for taking a food sample that is there in order to get you hooked?
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14188900 - 03/26/11 08:28 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I love free food samples! Just recently got some tasty Gummi bears from a local candy shop, actually.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: durantz]
#14188940 - 03/26/11 08:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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durantz said: I feel guilty at myself for allowing myself to give in to temptation and risk being hooked on a particular product...
how could you possibly feel guilty for taking a food sample that is there in order to get you hooked?
LOL
I thought I learned something about a sort of "no such thing as a free lunch" effect that happens in a social psych course, and it definitely applies to me. I personally think it's related to the fact that resources are competitive and to take food without giving something in return has been extremely uncommon throughout history. It always has a cost, even if initially unseen. So if I take food without giving something in return, like not buying the product, there is this natural response to think something is wrong.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14189006 - 03/26/11 08:48 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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haha well you would be a marketer's dream!!
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Re: costco food samples [Re: durantz]
#14189052 - 03/26/11 08:58 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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If they're giving me free stuff, sure. I'll have the emotional reaction they are looking for, it just won't move beyond that 
I don't think this is tied strictly to food though. I think lots of "freebies" out there rely on some level of discomfort with taking something for nothing to bring in business.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14189089 - 03/26/11 09:08 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah I've got a friend who feels bad about asking for a glass of water at a pub if he doesn't buy a beer with it! Even if he's already had a couple of beers at the bar!
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Re: costco food samples [Re: durantz]
#14189100 - 03/26/11 09:11 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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 interesting
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14189245 - 03/26/11 09:47 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Me and my friend, on multiple occasions, have gone to Costco with no money at all and walked around eating free samples to our fill. It was wonderful.
So no, I dont feel bad
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ahhh ok this is making more sense now. See in Australia we don't have this phenomena. We occasionally have someone giving very small samples away. but to be honest I have not seen this for about 10 years...
We could never walk into a shopping centre and eat enough samples to be full cos there are no samples.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14189514 - 03/26/11 11:01 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Kickle said: Anyone else have a tendency to feel guilty when taking food and not providing something for it?
Fuck no, food tastes better when it's free IMO. 
I always looked forward to going to Costco with my mom when I was a kid so I could try the samples.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14189520 - 03/26/11 11:03 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's an old trick of influence at play, utilising the norm of reciprocity.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14191663 - 03/27/11 11:19 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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no, every living creature deserves food and water.
you feel that you should make a "trade" to get your food?
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Yes.
Can you think of a single animal in nature that doesn't have to earn it's food through some form of cost? Nature doesn't typically just give hand-outs. And those animals that can't afford the cost, die.
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#14192123 - 03/27/11 12:54 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Everyone seems to be forgetting that Costco charges for memberships annually. I already pay for those free samples; no reason to feel guilty.
I've been known to take a lunch break (when I worked by a Costco) just for a sample run to save money... It's usually a good enough snack to get my by.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14192245 - 03/27/11 01:15 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Kickle said: Anyone else have a tendency to feel guilty when taking food and not providing something for it?
Absolutely not. Its an advertisement. I don't care much for advertisements. This is one i can take full advantage of without wasting my time or money.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Kickle]
#14193902 - 03/27/11 07:07 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Kickle said: Can you think of a single animal in nature that doesn't have to earn it's food through some form of cost?.
What about scavengers? Or what about young animals who are nursed by their mothers?
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Poid]
#14193935 - 03/27/11 07:12 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: costco food samples [Re: andrewss]
#14194023 - 03/27/11 07:35 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: costco food samples [Re: Poid]
#14194411 - 03/27/11 08:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Kickle said: Can you think of a single animal in nature that doesn't have to earn it's food through some form of cost?.
What about scavengers? Or what about young animals who are nursed by their mothers?
Scavengers for sure pay a cost. They don't just scavenge any food, they scavenge the food that has been abandoned. And sometimes there is no abandoned food available and so they have to engage a larger animal in a pack. The costs involved seem to be energy expended in getting the food, via travel or fighting. And if it's too difficult, they move on. At some point hunger, or necessity, will outweigh ease. A balancing act of effort to gain. Just like other animals.
As for baby animals who are nursed, I think that's a good point. Parents invest the cost in place of the child. The cost still exists but I agree it doesn't really fall on the kid. But oh, it will
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