Greetings, Hive friends and the @weekendexperiences community, this is my entry for the topics proposed by @galenkp. I'll be answering question number 4: Has marketing ever made you buy something you shouldn't have? Explain.
Marketing is one of the most important tools used by businesses to promote their products by showing lifestyles and home improvements by using certain products that promise to make household chores easier, especially when preparing food. Years ago, when I was in college, a commercial was shown on television very often for a seasoning chopper or food processor, which offered many benefits and saved time while preparing food. Cutting seasonings is a time-consuming task, even more so when we want to cut them small because there are children at home who regularly do not like to eat vegetables. When I saw this commercial, I thought it was the perfect ally to "save" time in the kitchen, and so I could cut them all in one day and store them in the refrigerator in the portions that I would use each day for cooking. According to my plans, it would be a good investment. For several days I watched the commercial, thought, analyzed, and did the math, until, influenced by the beautiful images shown in the commercial, I decided to buy it. I didn't really need it, but I saw it as very useful for saving time when cooking.
I went to the store, but when I got there, they didn't have the one they were promoting on TV, however in the store they offered me one that according to the salesman's explanation, was much better than the one I had seen in the commercial, very excited and thinking it was the perfect solution, I bought the chopper, they explained to me how it worked, how to place the vegetables, in short, this one I bought even offered to cut the meat, which I found interesting, because it would also be a help to prepare croquettes, nuggest, among other recipes.
Once home, I washed the vegetables to test it following the instructions and it turns out it didn't work, as I expected, the dressings were too large, I looked for videos on YouTube, watched tutorials and it didn't work, I couldn't go change it in the store because it had no fault, it turned on and worked, it just cut the vegetables too large, I felt disappointed and despite having purchased the vegetable cutter, I continued cutting the vegetables manually on a cutting board and a special vegetable knife; this experience taught me that not everything is what it seems, marketing shows very versatile products to satisfy the need we have or sometimes needs are created with these products, the influence of marketing convinces us and we fall into the trap of buying things we don't need and many times they are far from the expectations we create according to marketing images.
