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Consumer Psychology

How branding, pricing, and perception engineering shape what consumers believe they are buying.

Consumer Psychology

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The Con in the Bottle

British consumers spend over £600 million a year on bottled water. The uncomfortable truth: in blind taste tests, people consistently fail to distinguish bottled from tap; UK tap water achieves 99.97% compliance across 3.5 million annual tests; and several major brands are literally selling filtered tap water at a 1,600x markup.