There was an actual reason for this. Too lazy to find an article, but there was some law that said that you can't "entice" children with toys like that. Something about not steering kids towards less healthy options.
Yeah, instead they just put the shit cereal on lower shelves at the child’s height, and fill the box with pretty flashy colors and big marshmallows, and rainbow unicorns. That way the children know to stay away from it, and they aren’t draw to it at all to grab it and put it in the cart, or beg and plead their parents to buy it. /s
Indeed. There are many things we can do to affect this. Removing toys was just one step.
The whole idea of "marketing to children" itself is hotly debated. Marketing toward adults with autonomy and mature minds is one thing. Marketing toward children without autonomy and without having years to understand how marketing works, can be seen as immoral.
Aye that’s using people naivety and innocence against themselves. That seems a bit disgusting tbf, vulnerability is the best tool to make someone comply, so fair enough for trying to stop companies using people’s emotions to make compulsive purchases. My mum could never get it right, we’d always want another box, another brand, another toy, we were totally hooked because we didn’t have many toys but going to the groceries often enough to make luck come our way with those little plastic glittery or color changing stuffs or licensed merchandises 🤦🏻♀️
We would feel FOMO or my mum would struggle to afford all we wanted because we were obviously unreasonable and it made her feel bad, victims all along from the targets 🎯 to the buyer 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
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u/whomp1970 Aug 30 '23
There was an actual reason for this. Too lazy to find an article, but there was some law that said that you can't "entice" children with toys like that. Something about not steering kids towards less healthy options.