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You really should look into it more (it’s not a secret if you look for it) because OP is right. Yes, they’re selling thousands of things BUT they’re also designing that space to make you take as long as possible to get through it. The answer for why that is, is simple. People buy more. You don’t have to have an “issue” navigating with it, because you just don’t notice if you spend 5 minutes more walking through the place. If it was so egregious to be noticed easily by people, they would stop coming and the benefit evaporates. So it’s a balance.

It’s not even that, grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up and makes them more willing to spend, play specific music that calms and soothes you so you’ll walk slower. When you walk into a grocery store, you are walking through a highly specialized environment to maximize profits.

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blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

they’re also designing that space to make you take as long as possible to get through it

I get eggs, meat, veggies, and a few things from the mexican food section. When I don’t immediately know where something is, I ask an employee.

grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up

I haven’t noticed this in a grocery store for years.

play specific music that calms and soothe

The top 40 from 30-10 years ago?

I’m betting that, yes, at some point the stores thought of all these ideas and talked them up to potential investors or whatever. But then they actually looked into them and found they didn’t replicate, and so they just do whatever now

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- ClamDrinker@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You are not everyone. It doesnt have to work on everyone to be effective. And at the end if you want to reject it or not, it’s there, you can read up on it if you didnt already make up your mind. For grocery stores, it’s about large sums of money, so they do care.
  
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  - MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    A possible strategy to increase the bread consumption is to make bread more attractive
    
    What a fucking conspiracy, people like fresh bread. This is so fucking stupid.
    
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MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Is this anything you fucking morons won’t whine about? How do they design the space to do that?

It’s not even that, grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up and makes them more willing to spend, play specific music that calms and soothes you so you’ll walk slower

Jesus fucking Christ, listen to yourself. Everything is a conspiracy to you goddamn idiots.

Baking bread on site is a conspiracy? You need to seek help, this paranoia to point to the point neurological concern.

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- ClamDrinker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This isn’t a conspiracy, nor a secret, and nobody is claiming it is. It’s just psychology for the sake of profit maximization, which literally every company that likes to make a profit participates in. Why are you winding yourself up so much over something so uncontroversial?
  
  You should go work in retail for a year or two, because then you will know this isn’t exactly uncommon knowledge and even the people stocking the shelves know about it. Hell people that understand psychology need to shop too, so they know it too as they move through the store. If it’s a conspiracy to you, that says more about you than anybody else.
  
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