Mark Thorson wrote:

> Dimitri wrote:
>>
>> They already do - End Cap & floor displays not to mention check-out lane
>> & counter card placements. Display contests, Spiff's PM'S (Push Money)
>>
>> I truly believe the Super Market companies are among the most
>> sophisticated merchants in the world. The need to be to survive.
>
> Maybe my proposal was too radical. But perhaps a toned-down version would
> make sense. How about slow-moving display shelves that would roam the
> aisles. That would get somebody's attention, for example when you have to
> walk around them. They'd always be in a different place, so they'd provide
> that element of novelty which attracts notice.
>
> Might be a problem for blind customers, but so are people who might be
> standing in the way. Come to think of it, I can't remember ever seeing a
> blind customer in a supermarket.

For a while, I was helping a blind gal from my church one night a week;
mail reading and grocery shopping, mostly.

I know, that's not very sharkly. Don't blab this all over the school.


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