Thursday 3 December 2015

The psychology of impulsive shopping


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Why some people are more susceptible than other to purchase in an irrational way?

In this period of the years, when everything is tired and Christmas is coming soon, the extra purchase it comes frequently and almost problematic for some people. Some feels relate to this practice are regrets, debt and spiritual emptiness.

One of the topics that, in this period of the year, marketers and businesses had in common with psychology is how to increase the irrational purchase. Everything is thinking to people buy things that doesn’t need but still want. The impulse buying is relate with the symbolic value, the psychological meaning that had for people more than the instrumental value. That’s why psychology has a lot of say about that topic, because “a person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.”

Consumer psychologists discovered that if some product represent in some why something important to you, like how you thing you are, is probably that you will do an impulsive purchase. Brands are fundamental in this case, because helps people to consolidate their self-concept, and that at the same time helps to communicate that thing to other people.

The new said that when the society is more individualistic people are more impulsive to spend their money. That process it usually increases in a stress periods or after problems that makes you feel that you don’t have control of situations.

If we were all rational consumers our system will be in problems. Rational or not, the way that people spent their money is a source of our identity in this world.


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