The Evil of Supermarkets?

Question

I'm doing a discursive essay in English and have decided to do the evil of supermarkets. What do you think about the way they change their structure to get you to buy more? What do you think on the power places like Tescos and Walmart have?

Answer 1

Supermarkets evil? I am not sure about that one.

However, the people who design supermarkets and those who put the products in the stores have done a lot of studies on product placement in order to get customers to buy.

Many companies will pay the stores, like Wal-Mart big bucks to place their products at eye level. So, when you go up and down the aisles, the products on the middle shelves are supposed to catch your eye. This works especially in the cereal aisle and the candy aisle- mom's have their kiddies in the shopping cart and the kiddies want the treats!

There are units called "End Caps" at stores. These are the displays at the end of the aisles. Companies pay big bucks to put these products on the end caps as well. They are usually tied in with coupons that come in the Sunday paper.

The stores have bright lights and pipe in relaxing music. This is to relax customers so that they will stay in the store longer and buy more stuff.

And, you probably noticed all the "goodies" at the cash register- like candy bars and magazines. These are to entice customers into picking them up and tossing them into the cart while they wait in line.

Not really, evil, but manipulative and calculating!
But, that's business.

Answer 2

Does the supermarket change its structure or does marketing techniques change essentially meaning that "you" change the structure of the store. It really is a lot cheaper or essentially much lower overheard for all stores to leave stock in the box in the corner and let you go get it. But you wouldn't do it. So since you want it placed all neat on the shelves so that you can coordinate and buy food and not have to run clear to the back to get hamburger and all the way up from to get chicken...they put it so that "you " "the consumer" is happy. Essentially causing the prices to go up, becuase "the consurer" doesn't liek to walk up and down the isles.

Isn't Tescoes and Wal-marts just answering the demands that we have set upon them? I don't blaim them for what they do?

If you haven't noticed this is one of my pet-peeves, people blaiming "chain stores" for the life that we have thrust upon ourselves...

Good luck...

Answer 3

Evil contained in the corruption of the concepts, planting a seed on your mind, let it rot, from interior it really is going to emerge right into a twilight blossom which will devour you from the interior-out, this seed is nearly a ailment, it is going from one to a special, with slightly conviction it would want to kill your emotions and turn you right into a killing gadget, the purely way authority can end the propagation from coming one way or yet another is to isolate the contaminated purely so as that they don't recruit extra victims. Metaphoricly speaking: it really is what evil is; psychological ailment. that is basic to teach at the same time as the victims or uncovered to the persons like monkeys in a zoo! neither of those recommendations are a good one, yet you could't spell "responsible moral experience" without "technological expertise"...

Answer 4

I would talk about how big chain stores (not just supermarkets) put small, locally owned stores out of business.