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If you're upset about internet retail, I hope you're also upset about milk being in the back of the store to get you to walk through the whole thing, because this has been merchandising's bread and butter for a very long time.


This is a long-standing and oft-repeated myth.

Milk is in the back of the store because that's where it makes sense to have a refrigerated wall.

Milk is increasingly available in smaller quantities in compact refrigeration units at the front of the store.


It's probably both. But where products are placed in a store are uncontroversially designed to sell more not to make your life more convenient. https://www.npr.org/2014/08/01/337034378/everyone-goes-to-th...


Eggs and salt are a common dark pattern, milk is in the fridges with diary products in most of europe, hard to miss.




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