Inverting the supermarket

When we build apps or websites, the user-adoption is considered so important that we try to completely understand the users through personas and scenarios. Why then, when we go to a supermarket, is the milk still put in the back corner (and not upfront) making the ‘user’ cross the entire store to buy this most needed commodity? Is that for the benefit of the customer, or for the benefit of the store?

It’s common knowledge that this is done to generate business, to lure the customer deep into the store to make him or her buy more things. [...]

 

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