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US residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data.
Sure, that produce at the front of the store looks nice. They put it there so you'll buy the Cheetos two aisles down.
One study found that playing classical music at a wine store will get customers to select pricier bottles.
And FYI, buying food in bigger packages gets you to eat bigger servings too.
“Sampling any high-incentive item in a grocery store is likely to increase the subsequent desirability and purchase of that particular product,” Stephen Nowlis, a professor of marketing at Arizona State University told the National Retail Federation in 2012, “as well as other rewarding items.”
The information tells the store how to use store layout, shelf space, and prices to get you to spend as much money as possible.
"We did an experiment with that, and we actually doubled the size of the shopping cart," said marketing consultant Martin Lindstrom in 2011. "And you buy 40 percent more. In Whole Foods, the shopping carts over the last two years have doubled in size almost."
Stay strong: If you don't want to buy to those Cheetos, don't buy them!