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Maybe it boosts sales of non-food items. If your hand cart gets full of groceries, you might not pick up other stuff on that trip, like light bulbs, ballpoint
by adrianmonk 4y ago
Maybe it boosts sales of non-food items.
If your hand cart gets full of groceries, you might not pick up other stuff on that trip, like light bulbs, ballpoint pens, a potted plant, or a toy for your kid.
After you've left the grocery store, you still need those things. So you go to the hardware store, office supply store, nursery, or toy store because that's where you prefer to buy that stuff if you're making a separate trip anyway.
Grocery stores get those purchases because of convenience. Take away the convenience and they might lose the purchases.
- Izkata 4y agoThis is it. I walk to the grocery store and used to use a basket, carrying food home. Non-food was delivered by Amazon. Then near the end of 2020 when so many trips per week was getting to be too much a hassle, I bought a personal cart that I bring to the store with me. Now Amazon is more of a hassle for plenty of non-food items, because it's so trivial to add it to the cart, so I've been getting less online and more from the store.