Posted by Andy Budd on May 5, 2010 ·
Supermarkets are explicitly designed to maximise consumption and in some cases the conversion rate is almost 100 per cent. The job of store design is to encourage people to buy as much as possible while they are shopping. For instance, putting popular items like milk towards the back of the shop but in line of site focuses people to navigate through the entire store passing lots of goods on the way. [...]