Need help sourcing on this one ASAP
Sources on surprising things about grocery stores (former employees, authors, trend experts)
Working on a feature for AARP and could use some help with sources on this bad boy:
Looking for expert to weigh in on this feature: Things Your Supermarket Doesn't Want You to Know.
Insider-y things you didn't know about grocery stores from:
-Business experts
-Grocery store employees (past or present)
-Trend experts and marketing professors
-Shopping experts
-Authors
-Current grocery store employeees
Looking for things like:
water sprayed on produce not just to keep it fresh - also adds weight since sold by the pound
The store layout is strategic to encourage more spending
Bigger shopping carts encourage you to fill them up
Banana displays use special lighting
Some stores spray in fake baked good aromas to encourage shoppers to buy products
Best by dates are conservative
Music and lighting are strategic to set the mood
Impulse buys are strategically placed
Please send any leads my way to NCPajer@gmail.com
Thanks!!