On 12/5/2023 at 7:13 PM, BeeZee said:@Katie MeadowSupermarkets would be wise to offer a downloadable PDF shopping list arranged by aisle category.
That would be the death of them.
They want you to stay in the store as long as possible hunting for what you want (and picking up stuff you don't).. Supermarket chains employ psychologists to trick you left, right, and centre. Expensive goods at eye level, cheap stuff at floor level. Go look for salt in your supermarket. Where is it 99% of the time? At floor level. They make almost nothing from it; they're not going to place it at eye level.
Some supermarkets even control how quickly you push your cart through the aisles: slower in the luxury impulse buy section, faster in the boring staples. The vary the size of the floor tiles; we instinctively try to keep the clicks of the wheels even, speeding up or slowing down subconciously as we go.
And that 's only the beginning.
