7 Things You Buy Just Because Advertisers Persuade You to

Popcorn

Many of you probably didn’t know this before, but 1800 was the lucky year for the popcorn industry, as this period increased popcorn sales across the United States. A few decades ago, you could find popcorn everywhere, except theaters – because they thought that people would ruin their expensive carpets. 

Yet, it all started in 1927 when poor people started buying popcorn because they couldn’t afford anything else. So, cinemas started to make their own popcorn and sell it to people who wanted to watch a movie. To increase their profit, they used popcorn ads as a marketing strategy at the beginning and in the middle of movies to make them crave popcorn and buy it.