Retail store methods, utilizing tricks and subtle manipulations, may be legal but it doesn't make them unambiguously ethical and above criticism. They are permi

Retail store methods, utilizing tricks and subtle manipulations, may be legal but it doesn't make them unambiguously ethical and above criticism. They are permitted to function that way for practical reasons of interest to all of us, but it's not an argument against it being a breach of trust. (And it would likely be a net economic benefit to society if people bought less junk food, and could get in and out of a grocery store quicker.)