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Strawberries on the upper floor

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Strawberries on the upper floor Phoenix Zhuang Zhi Alas! I especially love eating strawberries, but every time I buy them I feel like I’m being cheated. "My friend said with a helpless tone. "...

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Strawberries from the upper level Phoenix City Zhuang Zhi Oh! I really love eating strawberries, but every time I buy strawberries I feel like I've been cheated." My friend said with a helpless tone. “Did you get fooled?” Friends around me asked in confusion: “Did you find that the strawberries were not fresh when you bought them home?” “The price you bought was too expensive?” "Don't you feel the same way?" She asked me with an unhappy look on her face: "Every time I see the strawberries sold in the supermarket, they are neatly arranged in boxes, and the strawberries in the boxes all look big, red, and fresh. But when you go home and open them to eat, you will find that only the strawberries on the top are beautiful, while the small ones or the less colorful ones are hidden at the bottom of the box, so you always feel like you have been cheated." I laughed after hearing this and said, "Ouch! This is 'basic common sense' in doing business! Fruit sellers must of course put the best and most beautiful fruits on the top floor. Don't they just hope to stimulate your willingness to buy?" "How can you say you were fooled?" Another friend said disapprovingly: "Although merchants always put strawberries that look big, red, and fresh on the upper floor, the strawberries sold in supermarkets are all placed in transparent plastic boxes. You just need to If you pick it up and take a closer look, you can tell whether the strawberries on the bottom are big or small, or whether they are new or not. So you should have known before you bought it home that only the strawberries on the top looked prettier. How can you blame the merchant for lying to you? " "Yes! Yes!" I said with the same feeling: "Every time I buy strawberries, I will lift the box to see if the strawberries on the lower layer are fresh. Although I often see the strawberries on the lower layer, they are often not as beautiful as the ones on the upper layer. But by checking more, you can at least avoid buying strawberries that are moldy on the lower layer." The friend then said: "So! We shouldn't blame the merchants for always putting big, red, and fresh strawberries on the upper floor. In fact, we are too easily attracted by the strawberries on the upper floor! Those of us who love strawberries, aren't we just Jiang Ziya fishing?#24895; who took the bait!" As soon as this was said, everyone laughed. Isn't it? Sometimes it is too easy for us to lament that the merchant's marketing techniques are too aggressive and overwhelming, so we can only obediently hand over the credit card and be "duh", and forget that we are also responsible for our own sales behavior. In fact, aren't all kinds of advertisements meant to capture the greed in our hearts and the weakness of pursuing bright appearances? I remember seeing an advertisement on TV many years ago. The screen was full of enviable scenes of high-end houses and delicacies, as well as world-famous tourist destinations. Just when I was confused about what kind of advertisement it was, a beauty in the advertisement suddenly appeared, pointing to the sign of a bank, and said in a soft voice: "Lending money is a noble act!" What a sharp advertisement! No wonder the commercial advertisement of "Sell now, pay later" is so shocking, and the new term "card slave" has been developed in recent years! But can we blame these ads? Are you complaining that you were cheated by them? Or should we say, is it because our hearts are very relevant and consistent with the content promoted by these advertisements? It seems that it is really important to watch your own heart! Proverbs in the Bible: "Keep your heart better than anything else, for the results of life are from the heart." I can't help but encourage myself again. Living in this colorful world, you must always have a heart of contentment and gratitude!

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