Marketers spend quite a bit of time thinking about how to encourage impulse buying. In a sense, trying to encourage impulse buying is a form of gravity fighting. You’re trying to get people to do something that they didn’t really want to do. [See my earlier posts on the folly of gravity fighting. http://adam-1001words.blogspot.com/2008/06/gravity-usually-wins.html http://adam-1001words.blogspot.com/2008/12/innovation-rule-5-dont-fight-gravity.html] […]