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The Supermarket and Other’s Vicious, Unhealthy Attacks on Our Environment
The seemingly innocuous rows of glass-fronted freezer doors in our supermarkets are, minute-by-minute, chiseling away at our environment, and this needs to be stopped.
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day. — Martin Parr
Supermarkets have been laid out to lure you to impulse purchases and the most expensive items. The shopping is in a pattern designed by following hundreds of unwary customers. Have you ever noticed the end displays or the ones you bump into as you try to walk the aisles? All of them are planned for profit.
I was one of those who shadowed customers, noting what they picked up, putting back, or stacked in their carts. All of it was marked on a store layout I held.
I also had a tape recorder to memorialize comments I could squeeze out of them as they shopped. I can’t tell you the strange looks I got.
The one thing neither the shoppers nor I ever gave one iota of time to was those huge glass-doored freezers in the middle of the…
