On: Creeping on You in the Cold Drinks Aisle

[grkvlt]

You say today's marketing but this has been going on for a while now...! It's been at least sixty years since Vance Packard's [0] 1957 book, 'The Hidden Persuaders' was published, which was probably the first time the public learned about these tricks.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Packard

[NeedMoreTea → grkvlt]

I was quoting parent, but the worst tricks have mostly been enabled by tech - the sixties through the millennium seem quite benign compared to today.