How grocery stores trick you into spending more money

Every part of a grocery store is designed to make you spend more money with psychological tips that manipulate you to buy more than you need, from increasing cart size to putting produce at the front, supermarkets spend tons of money making sure their customers spend theirs.  From the moment you pull into the driveway of your local grocery store to pick up just a few items to the moment you drive away with a trunk filled with items you didn't even know you needed, you have unknowingly been bombarded with physiological tricks that kept you filling up your cart.  Customers may go to the store for one carton of eggs and find themselves picking up ice cream, bread, a magazine and plenty more items they didn't even need.  Grocery stores have become retail nirvana with their tricks that make customers unaware of how much money and time they've spent aimlessly walking around placing item after item in their cart.  And while customers may think the manipulation begins when they start shopping, the tricks of the supermarkets come even before that.  In a video shared by , a woman shares the 28 different tricks grocery stores use to make customers spend more money.  Many of the psychological tricks supermarkets use are made to put customers in a good mood, which means they spend more money.    Every part of a grocery store is designed to make you spend more money with psychological tips that manipulate you to buy more than you need - including flowers at the front  Produce and healthy foods are also in the front to make customers splurge on less healthy and more expensive items later Prepared foods are next to the healthy items so customers can purchase these as a reward; similarly, stores use scents to put customers in a good mood and buy products as a reward  Grocery stores are scamming you into spending more money — here's how you can beat the system data-track-module="am-external-links^external-links"> Read more: