"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> 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

Yeah, but I really only buy things that I need, like canned milk, chicken
stock, and things like that on the way to the eggs. I am not an impulse
buyer most times, unless I am at the .99 Cent Store because I can try
different things without much of an investment.

Cheri