Why do customers stop using their brains whenever they step into a retail store?
Why do customers stop using their brains whenever they step into a retail store?
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Why do customers stop using their brains whenever they step into a retail store?
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They aren’t. You are just witnessing first hand how stupid the average person is.
This 10 minute read will illustrate just how dire the situation is
Honestly because most retail stores are actively disorienting to anyone unfamiliar with that specific store.
What may you think they used their brains outside.
Social anxiety.
Or pull into a gas station. We called it the fumes effect.
lol this post. At our office, we have stanchions to indicate that you have to line up and 2 big signs that says “the line starts here.” The store is also very busy so you’ll almost always see people lining up.
Every single day, there are people who walk past the line and stand in the middle expecting to get help and our staff eventually tells them to get in line because they’re going to assume they’ve been help. Every single day this happens.
Customers is an anagram of store scum
You know this statement includes yourself right?
You must work in one?
Because something about a price tag turns grown adults into confused toddlers lol
Because retail environments are designed to hijack your attention and put it where they want it.
What percentage of people do you believe are insightful?
Bold of you to assume they use in when they’re outside the store
I thought the point of retail is to leave your brain behind and buy crap your rational brain would avoid.
I’ve seen idiots walk into a store with four aisles and go completely brain dead.
Every grocery store is the same layout, perimeter is where the cold/fresh items are, shelf stable in the middle. If you seen cold cases, that’s frozen. Really really really really easy. Of course you also have to read which seems to be a remedial skill that most people never utilize.
Retail relies on promoting over stimulation of senses via lighting , color and subtle placement of items or positioning of layout to promote this effect
People enter into a bit of a retail haze via bombardment.
That and the public have devolved into behaviour akin to a kindergarten level emotional intellect , tantrums abound
Some have a spending addiction. Consumerism is fostered in some cultures. Addiction and impulsiveness are not dirty, always frowned upon. There’s also a fight occurring between dealers to gain our attention. Its happening here on social media!
Entitlement?
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Because most modern stores use fluorescent lighting as well as store design that is meant to disorient people. The more disorienting they are, the more likely you’ll make purchases on a whim. There’s a science behind it, and most companies have higher departments that plan for this specific situation. The problem is it also makes people agitated.
I work in retail and realised that 80% of our customers are NPCs. Like we have a few that walked headfirst in the glass pannels. One even though the coffee is expired because is said May 2025, the dude was so offended because he thought that we are in 2027 💀. I love working in sales because there’s always some different shit going on
A trip to the grocery store is just like driving… only you can see there’s nothing behind the eyes much closer.
Making you work for that commission
idk
why does a person post a loaded non answer question in a subreddit for answers?
You assume they were using them before stepping in.
It’s attention seeking behavior. We’re in a lonliness epidemic. It’s not something they do consciously, it’s just that humans are the most social creatures on the planet, to the point that social needs can override almost any other need. So they walk into the store, they see people who are required to talk to them, and their instinctive monkey brain says “right, time to get my needs met.” Then they start subconsciously acting in ways that will force people to give them attention, any kind of attention- good, bad, doesn’t matter.
People annoyed at them for blocking the aisles? Attention. People pissed off at them for trying to use an expired coupon? Attention. A grown adult having to walk them through the process of using a debit card they’ve used 100 times before, at a machine they’ve used 100 times before? Attention.
Just so long as somebody is paying attention to them. It’s the reason that treating them like toddlers works so well, because they’ve mentally regressed to the age when all attention was good attention. I once watched a video of a study done on toddlers. One group came from healthy families and been given the attention they needed. The other group had been severely neglected by their families and turned over to social services. They set the babies down with some toys, and observed them playing. The healthy babies were perfectly happy playing by themselves, and were quite intelligent. The babies who’d been neglected refused to play. They spent the entire time ignoring the toys, just staring at the adults who were watching them. Even when they were directed to play, the moment the adults stopped telling them to, they’d stop playing, and wait for the adults to give them attention again. They literally could not use their brains for anything except attention seeking.
We are in a lonliness epidemic, to the point where it’s causing brain damage on a massive scale. And customers are acting just like those neglected toddlers.
Because I’m disassociating
Workers at retail store are some of the dumbest people I have ever interacted with
The vibe from the staff.