\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It would probably be a safe assumption to assume that at some point or another everyone has been in a tourist trap. I mean sure, you could probably count just about every shop on the boardwalk at Ocean City or Wildwood a tourist trap, but that’s not really what I’m referring to. What I’m talking about are the stores and\/or attractions that are over-the-top cheesy and which seem to sell nothing but cheap products that no one really needs (we can probably all think of a place). Yet year after year, these places seem to stay open. So the real question here is, how do these places sell enough junk to stay in business? The answer is also an obvious one: because we keep coming back to them.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Why then, do keep people coming back to these types of stores year after year on their family vacations and road trips? It’s because tourist traps are basically one big dummy question; they ask the customer “Do you really need anything from me,” the answer obviously being no. But when people (I myself included) see the neon lit facade and the campy decor of these types of places, I end up wanting to go inside anyways. In essence, they play to curiosity and intrigue. I’m sure that the owners probably know that I don’t need anything from them, but they make the store look so outrageous and goofy that I come in simply because it looks like fun. Then, after they get me in, they probably hope that I either find something I like or find something that I don’t need but feel that I should buy anyways (especially since the odds are that I’m on vacation and willing to spend money that I wouldn’t be willing to spend otherwise).\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0This, in my own analysis, is how these types of places stay in business. Now do the owners of tourist traps think through this process exactly as they plan the layout and decorations for their store? I don’t know. But I’m sure they can probably bet that people’s curiosity will get the best of them and that they’ll get people to come in. Overall, tourist traps are a great example of how making the customer ask dummy questions, along with piquing their curiosity, can sell very well. For salespeople, this can be an important tactic to use in other (less obvious) contexts, so long as it is used ethically and non-deceptively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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