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Why stores offer a useless middle option

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If a gym offers a basic pass for ten dollars and an elite pass for thirty, people hesitate. So they introduce a completely useless 'medium' pass for twenty-eight dollars that lacks all the good features. It exists purely as a psychological decoy to make your brain mistakenly believe the thirty-dollar tier is an absolute steal.

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