older shoppers beware
I'm watching A Current Affair as I type this and they've just done a story on older shoppers being taken advantage of when shopping. An older, grey haired actress was sent into various stores to inquire about buying particular items. A television - the woman stated she lived in a unit, was on a pension, so didn't want anything huge, just a basic TV to watch dvds. The salesman gave her a pretty hard sell, trying to get her to buy a $1700 package deal, including a top of the range blu-ray dvd player. Same store, younger male customer, (actor) asking to buy a basic small TV to watch dvds on, was shown a TV costing just under $600. And nothing else. Same older grey haired woman "buying" a vacuum cleaner. Again stating that she lived in a unit, yet the saleswoman gave a demonstration of a very expensive (over $700) vacuum cleaner, insisting that this was what she needed to "get a really good clean". Younger male customer was shown a basic $269 vacuu...