Why Fat People Pay w/Debit Cards
Skinny people pay cash. You could look it up. A study by
professors of marketing at Cornell University and the State
University of New York, Binghamton, found that more than 60 percent
of
American adults are overweight, and only 14 percent of U.S.
consumers use cash at the supermarket. “Since paying in cash feels more painful than paying by credit
or debit cards, paying in cash can reduce the purchase of unhealthy
food items,” write professors Manoj Thomas, Kalpesh Kaushik Desai
and Satheehkimar Seenivasan in an article to be published in the
Journal of Consumer Research. The three researchers peered into the shopping carts of 1,000
people over a six-month period. They found that folks who paid for
their groceries with plastic bought more junk food than those who
used cash/
Steve Crump
, Twin Falls Times News.
More here
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Question: Do you pay for your groceries with cash or credit card?
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