the.com/grocery stores
a warehouse designed to make you buy milk by walking past everything else first.
means a retail shop selling food and household goods, laid out with surgical precision to maximize what you carry to checkout.
from from middle english grosser, a merchant who sold in gross quantities; the modern supermarket format was pioneered by piggly wiggly in memphis in 1916, the first store to let customers grab their own goods instead of handing a list to a clerk.
milk placementback of store, forcing a walk past everything
average sizeholds roughly 30,000 different items
eye levelshelf space sold to brands like ad slots
end capsgenerate outsized sales just from being visible
for instance
piggly wiggly — memphis, 1916, invented the self-service model
wegmans — rochester chain famous for cult-level customer loyalty
aldi — german discounter, shopping carts require a coin deposit
whole foods — amazon bought it for 13.7 billion in 2017