On 1/26/2014 10:41 AM, Cheri wrote:
>
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Reader's Digest had comments from supermarket experts,
>> some of which I question.
>>
(snippage)
>> Another one: We let you linger ... and it's good for business.
>> Customers would tell me as they went through the checkout "I
>> just stopped in for eggs" and they would have $250 worth of
>> stuff.
>>
>> Seriously, it's happened to me I spent $40 when I only
>> planned to get a couple of items, but $250? Has it ever
>> happened to you? Happens enough that it winds up being
>> mentioned in an article as if it happens every day?
>>
>> nancy
>
> Never, though I have stopped in for one thing, like eggs, and ended up
> picking up other things on the way to the eggs.
>
> Cheri

That's exactly why they put eggs, milk, etc. at the back of the store.

Jill