i wish that grocery stores would take after apple and start putting things together in a way that make seance, for example, milk and serial are far appart, soup and crackers are on opposite ends of the store, it pisses me off that you cant get things that go together TOGETHER! Penut Butter Jelly and bread are on three different corners of the store! why do grocers hate people?
i wish that grocery stores would take after apple and start putting things together in a way that make seance, for example, milk and serial are far appart, soup and crackers are on opposite ends of the store, it pisses me off that you cant get things that go together TOGETHER! Penut Butter Jelly and bread are on three different corners of the store! why do grocers hate people?
The more you walk around, the more things you'll impulse buy.
The more we move the products around on our shelves, the longer you have to stay in the store to find them, so the more you'll impulse buy.
Grocery stores are JUST like a casino. They do it for a reason, and that reason is the opposite of convenience.
Sort of like every blockbuster movie breaks the record of the last movie.. Of course when ticket prices are 10 times what they were 40 years ago it is easy to set new records..
Same thing with the Apple stores.. Figure out how many items they stock, then divide that by the price of one each of every item, to see what the average price per item is..
How many bags of Dog food do they have to sell at Costco to equal the sale of one Macbook at an Apple store..
I'm not saying anything negative about Apple, but setting a record for sales per square foot when you sell so many expensive things really isn't that great of an accomplishment...
That's a silly argument. Look at the price of Tiffany jewelry. It's probably considerably higher than Apple's products. Or look at Best Buy. They are selling a lot of expensive items, too. And then explain how Costco, GameStop, and Whole Foods ended up so high on the list.
Typically, with more expensive items, you sell fewer of them. The accomplishment is that even if Apple's average purchase size is larger as you claim, that they sell enough of these expensive items to end up on top of the list (by a wide margin).
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I would really, really, really like to see how those numbers stack up to Microsoft Store's retail dollars per square foot.
After accounting for returns of products purchased elsewhere, their average is -$27.15 per square foot.
I categorize my list based on my local supermarket's aisle arrangement. It's not perfect, but I found that I can shave off as much as 2/3 time spent in the store rather than simply reading from a list based on categories of products (dairy, meat, veggies, etc).
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Originally Posted by a_greer
i wish that grocery stores would take after apple and start putting things together in a way that make seance, for example, milk and serial are far appart, soup and crackers are on opposite ends of the store, it pisses me off that you cant get things that go together TOGETHER! Penut Butter Jelly and bread are on three different corners of the store! why do grocers hate people?
i wish that grocery stores would take after apple and start putting things together in a way that make seance, for example, milk and serial are far appart, soup and crackers are on opposite ends of the store, it pisses me off that you cant get things that go together TOGETHER! Penut Butter Jelly and bread are on three different corners of the store! why do grocers hate people?
I agree with Tallest_Skil, it seems like there's a method to their madness. I often find myself buying things I didn't go in to buy in the first place at WFM and spending more than I wanted to. I imagine if impulse shopped in the same manner when entering an Apple boutique, I'd be broke right now .
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i wish that grocery stores would take after apple and start putting things together in a way that make seance, for example, milk and serial are far appart, soup and crackers are on opposite ends of the store, it pisses me off that you cant get things that go together TOGETHER! Penut Butter Jelly and bread are on three different corners of the store! why do grocers hate people?
The more you walk around, the more things you'll impulse buy.
The more we move the products around on our shelves, the longer you have to stay in the store to find them, so the more you'll impulse buy.
Grocery stores are JUST like a casino. They do it for a reason, and that reason is the opposite of convenience.
Sort of like every blockbuster movie breaks the record of the last movie.. Of course when ticket prices are 10 times what they were 40 years ago it is easy to set new records..
Same thing with the Apple stores.. Figure out how many items they stock, then divide that by the price of one each of every item, to see what the average price per item is..
How many bags of Dog food do they have to sell at Costco to equal the sale of one Macbook at an Apple store..
I'm not saying anything negative about Apple, but setting a record for sales per square foot when you sell so many expensive things really isn't that great of an accomplishment...
That's a silly argument. Look at the price of Tiffany jewelry. It's probably considerably higher than Apple's products. Or look at Best Buy. They are selling a lot of expensive items, too. And then explain how Costco, GameStop, and Whole Foods ended up so high on the list.
Typically, with more expensive items, you sell fewer of them. The accomplishment is that even if Apple's average purchase size is larger as you claim, that they sell enough of these expensive items to end up on top of the list (by a wide margin).
I would really, really, really like to see how those numbers stack up to Microsoft Store's retail dollars per square foot.
After accounting for returns of products purchased elsewhere, their average is -$27.15 per square foot.
i wish that grocery stores would take after apple and start putting things together in a way that make seance, for example, milk and serial are far appart, soup and crackers are on opposite ends of the store, it pisses me off that you cant get things that go together TOGETHER! Penut Butter Jelly and bread are on three different corners of the store! why do grocers hate people?
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Originally Posted by a_greer
i wish that grocery stores would take after apple and start putting things together in a way that make seance, for example, milk and serial are far appart, soup and crackers are on opposite ends of the store, it pisses me off that you cant get things that go together TOGETHER! Penut Butter Jelly and bread are on three different corners of the store! why do grocers hate people?
I agree with Tallest_Skil, it seems like there's a method to their madness. I often find myself buying things I didn't go in to buy in the first place at WFM and spending more than I wanted to. I imagine if impulse shopped in the same manner when entering an Apple boutique, I'd be broke right now