Because he got hit by a truck. Death is the only explanation I can think of for him to never ever buy anything again.
Why do you assume that they don’t? Lots of adults buy things they enjoy on a regular basis.
You don’t say. Well, if not eating chips and drinking soda caused violent withdrawal symptoms, I guess little Johnny would be selling his parents’ silverware, breaking into cars, and peddling his own sweet, underaged ass to get his Funyuns and Mountain Dew fix. Seems like this sort of thing should’ve been covered in your marketing courses.
“samples” not “same”
Because Terry found a pube floating in his iced coffee, and it put a bad taste in his mouth.
So to speak.
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Every few years I buy an iced coffee, just to test to see if I still don’t like iced coffee. Nope. Coffee is a drink best served hot.
Huh. I thought this was IMHO, not Mind Reading.
Are you asking us to speculate on actual people passing through? Ask them.
Is this a brain teaser? If so, it’s because Johnny is now a diabetic and too young to understand.
Some people are disturbed by desire. They believe that liking something will eventually lead to dependency, which then will lead to obsession and addiction. So they head this off at the pass by intentionally avoiding pleasurable things.
Mind Reading is down the hall.
Some possibilities - for adults.
You didn’t really like the thing all that much
Every time you pass by you are too busy to stop to get it
You just ate or are just about to eat something even better
You’re short on money and every cent counts
Because the iced coffee contained the antidote to the poison he was given to get him to blackmail his employer. After realizing he was poisoned he slept with his boss, a woman married to a top CIA operative. The incriminating photos were used by a splinter group to pressure her to beg her husband to release an operative. After the operative was released he was directed to an iced coffee vendor who, after given the code word, slipped in the antidote.
He never wanted iced coffee again.
Some people just don’t pick up or change habits that readily. I quite frequently purchase, eat or otherwise experience something that I enjoy but don’t end up repeating habitually. And not because I have a good health or financial reason either – I discovered a few months ago that I absolutely LOVE lima beans. I never ate them as a kid because neither of my parents are keen on them, but my boyfriend and I picked them up at the store on a whim because we eat a lot of various other beans and figured we should try them. As mentioned above, they were a hit! Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get in the habit of buying them or even remembering to put them on the grocery list, so we don’t eat them regularly.
My point? Well, I’m suggesting that simply liking something isn’t necessarily enough to create a habit. There are complex factors both conscious and unconscious involved, many elaborated upthread. In the OPs examples, I’d suggest that the previous habits (of going on the errand/to the park WITHOUT making the treat purchase) are entrenched in such a way that it takes more than just liking the treat to change the habit.
Because.
No, seriously, that’s the answer.
There are far too many possible reasons for the millions of people who make or don’t make purchasing decisions every single day, most of the time multiple times a day.
They probably don’t want Johnny to grow up to feel entitled. Nobody (even parents) owes you everything you want in life. Next thing you know Johnny will expect to find things on the ground for free he can just take and sell to people. Next after that? ANARCHY!
Okay, so one of my coworkers, kind of (he was at our site only 2 days a month) left for another job in March. People were ordering from this place called Boloco’s, which has the bizarre concept of selling only burritos and shakes. Seriously, no tacos, no nachos, just burritos and shakes. I gave in and bought a shake called the cookie monster. It was delicious. I will not be buying another one in the near future.
Why?
a. it was $5 which is too much to spend regularly if you’re a frugal yankee and an eat-to-live sort rather than a foodie
b. it was 682 calories. For someone my weight that’s 70 minutes of intense aerobic exercise to burn off.
It was very yummy, but not something I can imagine eating even on a monthly basis. One presumes Terry might agree with at least one of my reasons.
Some people are also more inherently ascetic than others. Others are depressed or anhedonic for various reasons, or simply lack the drive to put forth the necessary effort to acquire repeat experiences, foods, or things.
If a person isn’t really into physical/experiential pleasures, then the “buzz” gotten from an impulse buy or a new treat wouldn’t be as likely to induce that person to follow up on it and make that purchase again.
Unfortunately for your marketing perspective, there isn’t much advice I could give to make “things” more attractive to people who aren’t really attracted to “things” for those reasons listed above.
Being a masochist? A beginner masochist?
Maybe the little prick Johnnie mouthed off just one too many God-damn times.
Now he’ll be “going to live with Grandma”.
Johnny is over 30 and needs to move the fuck out of their house so they’ve finally found the strength to start implementing the “tough love” plan they had been discussing for the past few years.