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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's why I always introduce a good bit of entropy to my shopping patterns:

-Enter and go straight to produce
-Spend 20 minutes examining eggplants
-Walk up and down 5 aisles pausing exactly the square of the aisle number in seconds.
-Grab a box of tampons
-Grab what I need as quickly as possible
-Return tampons
-Checkout and leave

Somewhere a marketing team is spending hours trying to figure out how to improve the conversion rates for tampons and eggplants for customers in my demo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget to flick and knock on various fruits and vegetables. Randomize how many flicks/knocks per item, and throw in a few on produce items that normally don't get that kind of test e.g. grapes or potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, there are fruits/veggies that get this kind of treatment by typical customers? Please list a few.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Melons and squashes (inc. pumpkins).

I believe the idea is to allow you to roughly evaluate the density of the produce, to avoid e.g. mushy grainy watermelon or weird squashes that don’t have their expected hollowness.

[–] Scubus 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget to be visibly revolted by any ads you happen to glance at