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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Ariane Sohrabi-Shiraz

Clever supermarkets tricks to get you to spend money – and how to avoid it

We've all been there – you go to the supermarket for one item, and come back with 10 things you really didn't need, but for some reason now desperately want.

According to Richard Price, money expert and and director of online supermarket Britsuperstore, all supermarkets have their own clever little tricks for getting us to buy items – and you're probably not even realising it's happening.

For example, a nationwide survey showed that 83% of parents have been pestered by their children to purchase junk food at supermarket tills – where they've been been purposefully placed to tempt you.

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