Grocery Store No More

Amazon opens a supermarket with no checkouts

Contents:

  • The Secrets Behind Your Grocery Store’s Layout
  • Thousands of products have shrunk
  • Amazon's first checkout-free grocery store opens on Monday
  • Explore Real Simple
  • At Amazon Go, you grab your milk and leave. It might take some getting used to.

    • Supermarkets not only rely on such behavior; they encourage it. To explain how store geography influences your spending, we enlisted a team of merchandising experts to map out a typical supermarket, identifying the booby traps to help you emerge with exactly what you need and want, and not a single potato chip more. Buy supermarket flowers for convenience, not value.

    The Secrets Behind Your Grocery Store’s Layout

    The prices may be low, but the flowers are seldom as fresh as those from local florists. To create a tempting sensory experience. Reach to the back and dig for the freshest items. Buy produce during the week. Shop after a meal, or have a snack first. If all you need is a quart of milk, get it here to avoid the temptations lurking along the way to the dairy case at the back of the store. Set a budget before you shop and bring a calculator to keep a running tally, suggests William Schober, editorial director of Path to Purchase Institute.

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    And watch endcaps for a recurring pattern. Leading brands often compete this way. If Coke is on sale in an endcap display one week, it will probably be Pepsi the following week. Sampling stations slow you down while also exposing you to new products. They just look at the numbers knowing consumers are out there looking for the best price.

    Thousands of products have shrunk

    Whether or not we want to admit it, as food consumers, we value quantities for the lowest price. But there could be an opportunity for manufacturers looking at increased costs. Instead of downsizing products and hoping no one notices, emphasizing its superior taste and original package size could become a selling point.

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    Studies show that consumers who remember how good a product tastes are willing to pay more for less if given no other choice. Food manufacturers should try selling flavour over quantity. Showing a more transparent approach to packaging, or emphasizing quality could let consumers appreciate that things do get complicated out there and some adjustments are required. Shrinking package sizes could contribute to food inflation in a subtle way. In some cases, quantities have been reduced by 15 per cent in three years.

    Reformulating is dangerous

    By compounding real inflation, food prices may have gone up by more than six per cent in many cases, when the reported food inflation rate was anywhere between 1. In the end, consumers can be outraged and condemn the practice of shrinking food products. But when you really think about it, food companies are really delivering what consumers are asking for — low prices.

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    Amazon's first checkout-free grocery store opens on Monday

    The quantities of packaged foods really are shrinking as food manufacturers try to avoid hiking prices. Sylvain Charlebois , Dalhousie University.

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    Pulling a page from Amazon's book, Microsoft is working on a technology to eliminate checkout lines at stores by tracking what shoppers add to. Amazon opens its first grocery store without cashiers to shoppers in Seattle and had been expected to allow the public in more quickly.

    Chocolate bars are among the foods that are shrinking. Thousands of products have shrunk All over the world, food packages are shrinking.

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    Food companies have found a way to defend margins, largely without upsetting anyone. Reformulating is dangerous Yet changing ingredients can be risky. The New Coke debacle of the s shows the risks of a company reformulating a beloved product. The need to package some foods in typical plastic—for food safety, or to help food last longer and prevent food waste—can be satisfied with compostable materials made from things like plant starch, or even food waste itself.

    At Amazon Go, you grab your milk and leave. It might take some getting used to.

    New packaging also continues to come to market. A startup called Full Cycle Bioplastics , for example, uses bacteria to turn food or crop waste into a packaging material called PHA.

    The product is food-safe, compostable, and if it happens to end up in the ocean, it safely degrades to become fish food. The packaging will be no more expensive than standard plastic made from fossil fuels. Prime Minister Teresa May endorsed the Plastic-Free Aisle campaign in a national address that called for eliminating avoidable plastic waste in the U. A discount supermarket chain, Iceland, made a commitment in January to eliminate plastic from all of its store-branded products within five years. Sutherland is helping them with this effort but argues that supermarkets could make the shift—at least in a single aisle—more quickly.

    A larger shift, to a store with no conventional plastic packaging, may also be possible, if the brands that supply stores feel the same pressure from consumers.