Friday, February 3, 2012

In response to Brooke's grocery store marketing Scheme

The question was have you ever fallen for the grocery store scheme, on placement of the items that catch our eye and how the things we need are in far places, have you been fooled? So many stores have this scheme and its amazing how we all have fallen for it at some time or another. I sure have, I go into the store trying to buy the simple gallon of milk and come out with a whole carrage full of useless cheap food. I stroll through the store and even with my blinders on its hard not to stop and look and all the items. The grocery store is a money pit, i shop there and always buy more then i need. I try never to go on an empty stomach or ill just buy two of everything. Bad Idea. So i have fallen for this scheme and it gets me every time.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Facebook IPO, Wednesday. Would you buy?

Facebook is looking to go public Wednesday with its first IPO. It will be the first time the web user site will be selling stock to the public. IPO means the first time a company starts to sell shares of its company to the public through the stock exchange. It seems to be a real great idea. How much would you all be willing to pay for a share of facebook to become an owner? Do you think there's money to be made here? How much would you all buy? I know that facebook is a real great site and so many people use it, but an example of a an IPO a couple months ago was Groupon and they were also very liked by the public and many people used it. It went public selling shares and two weeks in the shares of the company began to loose value and not do well at all. Do you think this kind of thing could happen to facebook? Check out the site: