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Could you elaborate on how advertising disincentives a customer from trying a competing product?

• electromagnetic 12y ago
  Because advertising typically reinforces a products quality. Why would you try a no name brand when you buy Heinz who is the leading national brand. If you have a vending machine selling Coke, Pepsi and Joe's Discount Soda, you're going to go with Coke or Pepsi. Personally (here in Canada) I prefer the Noname brand baked beans over the Heinz brand due to the Heinz brand over using the hickory flavouring. However, this is because I grew up in the UK and the Noname brand in Canada tastes exactly the same as the Heinz Baked Beans formulated for the UK market. I actually continued to buy Heinz Baked Beans for a couple years before I finally gave in and bought one of every brand to get one that tasted like I was used to. If it wasn't for the advertising I would have likely bought a different brand of beans within a month, not within a couple of years. Why? Because Heinz is the best, surely the others must taste worse! Since then I always try the store brand and lesser brands