Save Your Shopping Relationship

Can overpriced items create bad blood between you and a store?

By Victor Limjoco
Dec 14, 2006 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:12 AM

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Holiday shoppers beware. That pleasantly surprising sale price can actually bust your budget. A new study by a behavioral scientist shows why we often spend more when we're convinced that we're saving. Economists call it the "spillover effect" when a sale on one item can spur extra spending on unrelated items throughout a store.

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