{"id":3588,"date":"2007-02-07T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:39:39","slug":"home-depot-tries-jedi-mind-tricks-on-its-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/home-depot-tries-jedi-mind-tricks-on-its-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Depot Tries Jedi Mind Tricks On Its Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught the headline of the pad of entry forms as I stood in line to buy nine volt batteries, and I didn&#8217;t think it was legal, but closer examination told me that the Home Depot had it covered:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/homedepot.jpg\" alt=\"Home Depot Spend $100 and Enter Form\" width=\"600\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Spend $100 and Enter, No Purchase Necessary<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s more Subliminal Man from Saturday Night Live.  I don&#8217;t know.  I do know, though, that Home Depot was hoping to push those $95 spenders into buying an additional hardback book or bunch of candy to make up for it.  I feel bad for those taken in by it, particularly on the day I was in the Home Depot and saw the forms.  February 4.  Over a week after the contest ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught the headline of the pad of entry forms as I stood in line to buy nine volt batteries, and I didn&#8217;t think it was legal, but closer examination told me that the Home Depot had it covered: Spend $100 and Enter, No Purchase Necessary Maybe that&#8217;s more Subliminal Man from Saturday Night Live. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18275,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/18275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}