Big Mart and Ad Executives

Something a little different a friend of mine gave me the suggestion of shopping at Costco so I came up with this. I blame this on you Fred Duchow.

You go shopping in a big box store

Full of people

Convinced of your own free will

Yet at every turn all things have been pre-arranged

To make you buy more and more

Sales and special items placed on endcaps or in the middle of the aisle

Deceptive sales tactics

All designed to make you buy, buy, buy

Things you don’t need

Things you wouldn’t normally buy

But oh, you’re hungry

Or it’s on sale

But that sample tasted so good

And look it’s on sale

Everywhere you look they’re trying to control you

Trying and succeeding

Targeted ads and tracking

Listening to every word we speak

Tracking our every move

Everything we say or post

It all factors into their databanks

Designed to control

Designed to sell us as a product

To other advertisers

So we buy, buy, buy

Their products

Like addicts

Moths to the flame

Injecting the drug

Consume, consume

More, more

Gluttons never full

Our ever expanding

Stomachs never satiated

Til we, sink under

The weight of our

Unsatisfied eyes

All while filling the wallets of the Ad Execs