E-commerce has literally exploded into a huge part of the entire retail economy in recent years and as a result, no business can afford to exist solely in the offline world. Online purchases now account for billions of pounds worth of transactions a year and are still growing rapidly; 2010 estimates show online sales growing 12% in the UK and 20% across the EU. However, as more than one businessman [...]

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. [...]

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