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GladiusB@lemmy.world 15 hours agoI don’t think you realize who runs grocery stores. Most are just there because they have to be. They just throw it on the shelf and do what they are told.
The stores are told on a corporate level that items need to be stocked on certain shelves and all essential items (milk, eggs, whatever) need to be buried in the back behind anything that’s on sale so customers have to look at everything before getting the basics.
Workers are people who follow orders and have to live with the chaos and help customers actually find the item they’re looking for even though the company as a whole is the problem
No they aren’t. They have reset crews that come and change the layout for many reasons. I was a grocery manager for 15 years. Specifically the stocking manager. There has never been a “bombard them with information” directive.
It’s what sells best in the area and make it available. It’s not that highly coordinated.
it’s the who does the telling who creates the hostile design. the other things you’re describing, the dehumanization of the employees, are part of that design
There isn’t anyone saying it’s a hostile design. You don’t know what you are talking about.
One article that I can’t even fully read? Hardly call that evidence. It’s an interesting hypothesis. However in practice impulse buys are not what the discussion was. It is that the entire store is there to “bombard” you. It’s not. It’s categorized and that’s about it. You are thinking of the “sales” area. Which is routinely paid for by vendors.
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The people stocking the shelves aren’t the ones designing the store layout, dummy.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Rude. I worked as a grocery manager for 15 years.
Dummy.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
did you design the store layout?
GladiusB@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Did you? Do you know how most are laid out? Please enlighten me on their “information bombardment”.