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