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Walk into Starbucks, you get one smell
— Yasmine Khosrowshahi (@yasminekho) December 25, 2024
Step into McDonald's, itβs another
Visit the Apple Store, and itβs different again
Ever wonder why?
These brands hack your senses to make you spend more.
Itβs called sensory branding. Hereβs how it works: pic.twitter.com/f4Cgktz5w1
LinkedIncels have to go back
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Ever wondered why the pump at the garage smells like petrol? It's a trick by big oil to hack your mind into buying more fuel
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This is how bongs actually talk.
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I sniff a lot of petrol but all it does is give me brain damage
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I remember when I was five I used to like the smell of exhaust from the school buses. You'd think that would have given me some sort of brain damage but the fact I still remember that should say I came out somewhat fine
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I did too!
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It just tells us that you have the mind of a 5 year old tbqh
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Darn you rama rama
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Wrong continent, babe.
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It makes me want to sleep on the road
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Don't be rama rama
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I don't get it
Did you have that specific clip in mind when you spun up tenor? Is this specific gif popular in some other subcultures? Did you just type genius into tenor (like I would do into marseymoji system) and picked the first suitable reaction gif?
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Please explain
my question was genuine
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i just type random stuff into tenor until I see something good enough
1/2 the time you get Naskar'd
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Pfft, I just fill up a gas can and enjoy it at my computer desk bit by bit.
It's much more budget friendly
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edit: forgot what a fricking boomer song this was
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ah, the album that finally made me hate metallica
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Abbo pls
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Guzzoline does genuinely smell good tho
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Works on abos and scots
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Where on earth could that smell have come from??
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looking into this
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Looking into this
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Wow
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They waft it on purpose to the lobby/receiving area
Gyms also do this with women's sweaty armpits
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If only
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Oh man I love fit and sweaty cooter
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I want to hurt the person that wrote this. Its the most painfully obvious fricking shit imaginable but this midwit wants to believe they're important instead of just a fricking r-slur that noticed the painfully fricking obvious.
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we may never know...
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It's intergalactic 6D chess by the true geniuses that control the world- marketers. They literally invented smell in 2000BC, before that nothing had ever smelled anything before.
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This but unironically
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Everyone's posting the obvious gigabrained take, but Starbucks does actually spend a lot of effort on its smell. They ban strong perfumes and such for employees. The food they serve isn't prepared on premise, while roasting is. Kept futzing around with paninis and such because they overpowered the coffee smell. They've experimented with adding artificial scents before when they were pushing pumpkin spice a while back, not sure if they still do.
https://www.mashed.com/142329/the-untold-truth-of-starbucks/
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if there is one place that is guilty of this "strategy" the most It's probably Popeye. No fried chicken/fastfood slop restaurants chain I have been through has that intense fryfood smell, it has to be intentional at Popeye
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It's because Popeyes are often staffed by lower economic class individuals who are much less likely to fully clean their fryers or even replace the oil as often as they're supposed to. And they use the fryers a lot there.
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You don't need to clean the dryer or change the oil. The heat kills all the germs. Science.
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...... .... .....
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It does tend to accumulate carcinogens at the cyclic rate though
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Doesn't Cinnabon place fans to waft the smell of fresh cinnamon buns out into the mall?
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See but that makes sense because it's not a standalone store. It has to advertise itself somehow to mall goers, best way to do that is by gassing passerbys. But if you're going into mcdonalds and starbucks, which are usually standalone, no shit they're gonna smell like a greasy spoon and coffee shop lol.
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I swear that Burger King pumps a scent out into the surrounding area of "flame grilled" meat.
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They kinda have to for ventilation reasons
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It's an artificially strong aroma and I will die on this hill.
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Nah, you gotta point. It's distinctive too
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it's just a shithole with lazy employees who don't filter the oil or wipe the oil residue off of surfaces often enough
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Popeyes is dirty as frick, I assume it's because frying oil costs every surface in the restaurant
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such obnoxious people with irritating prose
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This shit is π―% AI slop
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Jimmy John's have a "free smells" sign
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it's only smellz
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No trans lives matter
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The Asmongold store hacks your brain into buying black mold and stale sweat.
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Don't forget the mail-order cockroaches!
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Please tell me this is a fricking bit.
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sounds like BS to me. starbucks smells like coffee ON PURPOSE? no one is going to believe that.
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Bakeries and restaurants here definitely do this. They intentionally vent the smell of fresh bread or tasty food onto the street to make you hungry.
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At great expense, no less. Most kitchens don't have any external ventilation so it has to be custom-built
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they have all these 200IQ theories and research but then let ethnics who don't know what a sandwich is make all the food
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I mean different fast food chains have distinct smels
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Some of them smell like fryer oil. But not the pizzeria for some reason. I wonder why the different use of marketing smell tactics.
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Proof?
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/yasminekho/status/1871911282871517266:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Luxury Hotels do this. Like the St Regis and others have perfume makers craft specific scents for their lobbies, but also decor and service are a big part of this. Hollister used to do this by spraying their shitty cologne and playing pop punk while hiring getting around hiring uggos by classifying them as "models"
I'm sure McD's and Cuckbux did an analysis on it, too, though
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