• yngmnwntr@lemmy.mlEnglish
    59·
    6 months ago

    When I used to work in the home electronics department of a department store we had a bin of cheap dvds, price as marked. People would come through and organize them as they browsed and throughout the day the bin would get more and more organized. We were told they sold better if people had to rifle through them, so we had to periodically mix them back up.

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      I was gonna say, I’m pretty sure the mixing-up is intentional. Giant corpos don’t do anything that doesn’t maximize money flowing into their coffers.

      • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
        181·
        6 months ago

        Normies get the dopamine hit from finding a hidden treasure

        We get a dopamine hit from trying to make sure everyone can find their treasure

        We are not the same

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      I love the fact that people are hard-wired for keeping things tidy.

      (Asterisk asterisk, not everyone, some pigs walk amogus, yadayadayada. We get it. 😉)

  • LobsterJim@slrpnk.netEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    I remember my mom taking me to the grocery store with her, and while she shopped around I hung around the soup section organizing the cans. Definitely feel this one

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    It’s actually pretty hard to start with so little free space, and you can’t buid stacks too tall either because the base isn’t even. It takes time for the space gains by efficient stacking to have an effect. And if you use the floor for temporary storage, employees will yell at you. Ask me how I know.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    815·
    6 months ago

    Doing free work for billion dollar corporations has to be one of the most egregious wastes of time ever. If I saw someone doing this in Walmart, I would wait till he was done and then mix them all back up together.

    • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      The image is reversed. The products were placed in the bin and then mixed up. Digging through a disorganized bin and touching all the products is Walmart’s desired customer experience here. They sell more of certain products that way.

      So… good job doing all that hypothetical free work for a billion dollar corporation.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Is this so everyone has to touch everything everyone else touches so everyone can spread their germs and get sick and then they can’t go to work at Walmart where they don’t get health insurance?

        • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          It’s psychology. Physically engaging with the product makes customers more likely to purchase it. And having it be disorganized draws the customer’s attention.

          • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I don’t know about the disorganized part. Like book stores don’t do this. But you’d see Walmart do it with like DVDs. I’d guess it’s more about not wanting to waste worker time organizing it.

            • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              The candy and the DVDs come neatly packed in perfectly sized boxes.

              A messy bin is more work and takes up more space, but it makes shoppers feel like they’re getting a better deal.

              I’m not making this up. It’s a well-established thing.

            • thejoker954@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Well books are more likely to be damaged if they are just in a pile whereas dvd and candy boxes aren’t.

              Also some bookstores do indeed look like a tornado just came through - just not corporate chains like barnes and nobles.

      • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        The amounts of times i wanted to throw away everything bexause a small inconvenience xD If i got 1€ for every time. I would be able to throw away everything and do a food truck buissness

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      As others have pointed out, these stores want it messy so me tidying things is actually not helping them but it makes me relax and feel good.

      You sound like a right cunt if you would go out of your way to undo something someone did.