Last year, I conducted an experiment related to shopping to explore the formation of the impulse of shopping. One of the outcomes was my discovery that the desire of shopping can spread socially. During the experiment, I invited two friends who have different outlooks towards shopping: person A is more impulsive in purchasing and believes in retail therapy; person B manages her money well.
I shopped with these two friends on different days but in the same context (Friday night at 6 PM and different weeks.) The result was that when I shopped with person B, her tendency to take control of her money by continuously asking if she really needed the product influenced me in that I began asking myself if I really needed to buy a particular item or if it was just my impulsiveness.
However, when I shopped with person A, who is likely to do impulsive purchasing, I also ended up spending carelessly. In a more specific setting, person A and I went to Hot Topic and saw the Blue from Jurassic Park's Funko Pop! Since the vinyl figure is a limited-edition toy, she told me that we might not find it outside the store and so needed to buy it right then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WnoNn9Innw
But my inner mind told me that I was doing a thesis project on impulsive shopping, and, if my professor got to know that I was engaging in impulsive buying during my experiment, it would be so embarrassing.
Are you easily to get impulsive purchase? How about you only allow to shop for your friend and your friend will buy for you. By shopping for others without carrying your own money, you can still enjoy the feeling of shopping without any chance to get impulsive purchase.
This bag contains three pockets, one for the budget, one for the receipt, and another one for you to put your shopping list. Simply put sufficient money on the budget pocket and place a shopping list in shopping list pocket, exchange your bag to your friend. Your friend will help you to find your products and the receipt will be put in the pocket once shopping are done.
Buynary helps the people who get tired of their impulsiveness but still wanted to enjoy the feeling of wandering in the malls and the excitement of hunting product. Michael Norton, a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, stated out that to maximized happiness from buying is not to buy for yourself, but buying for other. Buynary lets its user enjoy the feeling of shopping, and avoid the chance to get impulsive buying.