{"id":15878,"date":"2017-11-07T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15878"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:49","slug":"principles-of-behavioural-economics-in-supermarket-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/principles-of-behavioural-economics-in-supermarket-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles Of Behavioural Economics In Supermarket Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/110717_1213_PrinciplesO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cracked put together a list of psychological tricks that supermarkets use to boost sales. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The mascots on breakfast cereals often look downwards \u2013 to catch the eyes of children.<\/li>\n<li>The aisles with the highest margin items sometimes have smaller floor tiles to slow down shopping carts, increasing time spent at the store.<\/li>\n<li>Flowers are typically sold at the entrance of supermarkets to prime customers into thinking about freshness.<\/li>\n<li>Removing dollar signs from prices \u2013 so that it reads 9.99 instead of $9.99 \u2013 makes the money seem more abstract, and purchases more likely.<\/li>\n<li>Scents can affect spending \u2013 a coconut fragrance in the swimwear aisle increases sales.<\/li>\n<li>Supermarkets don&#8217;t want shoppers to settle into a routine \u2013 they will shuffle around inventory, so more time is spent looking for staple buys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full list on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/pictofacts-219-21-tricks-stores-use-to-control-your-brain\/\">Cracked<\/a>.<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracked put together a list of psychological tricks that supermarkets use to boost sales. Highlights include: The mascots on breakfast cereals often look downwards \u2013 to catch the eyes of children. The aisles with the highest margin items sometimes have smaller floor tiles to slow down shopping carts, increasing time spent at the store. Flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/110717_1213_PrinciplesO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15882,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15878\/revisions\/15882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}