Things Consumers Don’t Like

Consumer Reports has an advertisement they’d like you to consider about the holiday shopping season. They say they’ve compiled the list of “top holiday-shopping annoyances”, which include: being pushed to sign-up for store credit cards; requests for personal info like you’re phone number and “being hounded with the extended warranty sales pitch.” Naturally, they’ve bought ad space in USA Today for Nov. 24.

Click continued for the full list of things that annoy Americans as they shop for the holidays.

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72% Stores that never open all of the checkout lanes

68% Fake “sales”. If something is always 20% off, it’s not on sale

67% Coupons that exclude almost everything in the store

62% Being endlessly hounded with the extended warranty sales pitch

58% Cashiers that ask for your phone number or other personal information

56% In-store prices that do not match the same company’s on-line prices

53% Employees required to up-sell you at the register

52% Pushing store credit cards at the register

50% Mail in rebates

48% Stores that require loyalty cards to get discounts

43% Stores that have a minimum purchase requirement for credit cards

26% Receipt checkers

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