14 Tricks Grocery Stores Use To Con You Into Buying More

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7. Huge shopping carts

One store I use sometimes simply doesn’t supply hand baskets — if you want to buy a few items there, you’re obliged to use a giant cart. But a few items quickly look lonely in a cart that size, and you figure that while you’re at it, you may as well get a few other things. Shopping carts have tripled in size since the 1970s, and that has been deliberate.

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