(relatively low stakes, as in like not 9/11 or JFK level)
Mine: plastic straw (and now plastic cutlery) ban initiatives are directly funded by petrochemical companies. Plastic straws are one of the most common and useful types of disposable plastic an average American encounters every day, so banning them causes people a huge inconvenience and tarnishes the idea of other green initiatives (that might have actual teeth) as more nanny state "not allowed to have this"-ery (also has the side effect of making gullible libs think they're actually doing something to help the planet by using a reusable straw while they get their plastic container of meat products)
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That's not a conspiracy I'm pretty sure all those things have been like, written about in magazines lol
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I mean true but by that standard, pretty much the entire capitalist system could be called a conspiracy
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But it's not a theory when like, they openly talk about it because the manipulative design is itself a sort of commodity-capital to be sold as a service to stores or used as PR to make their gormless shareholders nod dully and decide that the store is indeed doing enough to extract wealth to feed to them.
Lol mfer that’s just I/o psychology basics
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Industrial/organizational psychology. It’s basically what evil capitalists study to fuck people up scientifically (reward schemes, temperature of the bullpen, team building, HR bullshit)___
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i have a local kroger that has the produce on the left for some reason; i'd be very interested to see how it does in terms of sales compared to all the other ones in the area, which have it on the more traditional right
My local Ralph's has produce to the left.
That's not a conspiricy theory, that's literally the marketing textbooks.
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But it's not a conspiracy, it's standard, publically available operating procedure that you learn day 1. If anything it's out of date info. Current methodologies are to priming what a weak willow bark tea is to pharmaceutical grade morphine.
It's like saying cars are secretly not run by steam engines or tiny demons on hamster wheels at all, but by a nefarious "internal combustion engine" in order to benefit petroleum companies. Yeah, it's not wrong.
If you go to any marketing manager, no matter how junior, in the entire world and ask them if they do this (or the equivalent in their sub field), they will go "Yeah, Duh", we started doing this in the 1930s.
For a marketing conspiracy, try...Google operates its services in such a way that businesses that funnel ad dollars to Google (and are in the same tight tech bubble as Google execs) prosper the most and in turn capture the lion's share of consumer money, without the algorithm ever actually being biased in any direct way towards these companies, and with each individual weighting decision seeming entirely reasonable.
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You have music playing in your grocery stores..? Also in your Lidls?
There almost always is, sometimes it's just at really low volume, usually Muzak. Older, bigger stores might even have something like this set up. That guy has a few more background music systems he's looked at. It's a pretty interesting bit of history. Lots of engineering went into those things.
OF COURSE, I was wondering why all the supermarkets I visit regularly seem to shuffle things around at least once a year
A lot of wegmans I've been to puts the produce front and center, then beer and paper towels on the extreme ends with butter in like the faaar corner.
Other than that you're pretty accurate.