Layouts, pricing tactics, and promotions are carefully engineered to influence what people buy, how much they spend, and how ...

You walk into your grocery store for milk and somehow end up staring at a wall of granola you’ve never seen before. The bread ...

Stores slow you down on purpose by forcing you past impulse items, narrowing aisles, and stretching the distance to basic ...

In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modell’s, Subway (although somehow the ...