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I agree but it’s been shown that simple tactics like releasing fruit scent (melon particularly) can increase sales by as much as 10%. I’m not sure if it’s known exactly why this occurs but you can see why a shop would try various methods to increase their sales. Maybe altering the layout makes enough people change their habits to increase sales that it’s worth confusing/irritating those who aren’t affected by it?
You're probably right and it's worth it for them to do so. But at the same time I've also come to realize that companies are fucking stupid.
On multiple occasions at multiple jobs I've worked. I've watched managers implement awful policies and procedures that percentage wise increased revenue in one sector but decreased it in another by a smaller percentage. However the sector that was decreased was orders of magnitude larger than the sector that got a percebtage increase. So in reality when it came to the actual Dollar amount we actually lost a fuckton of revenue for multiple years until someone spoke up about it.
Idk if that's the case or not with this stuff. I'm just tired of feeling like every annoyance and detail in life is just another stupidly planned out attempt by a corp to try and manipulate another dime out of me