Milking it: 5 tricks from the supermarket playbook
You ducked into the shop for milk. You walked out with a basket full of products you didn’t plan to buy – chips, chocolates, sugary cereal. Sound familiar?
You already know supermarkets are carefully engineered environments designed to commandeer our attention, exploit our cognitive vulnerabilities, and increase impulse spending – often without us realising it in the moment. Sort of like casinos.
Our team has spent years documenting how the industry meticulously gathers and analyses data on all of us, to craft strategies to make us buy more and eat more.
➡️ Read the interactive story on the five tactics from the supermarket playbook
KioskNews shows a cleaned-up reading view extracted from the publisher’s page — the original always lives on their site, not ours.