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The Origins of Consumer Psychology
Woolworth had this sort of brilliant insight which is that if you put a lot of low priced goods together and seed what he called seeded the lot with a few nicer objects people are going to want to buy everything. So Woolworth created entire stores that were filled with low priced goods and a variety of goods. That continues today in dollar stores there's an interesting sort of consumer psychology there where you know you just sort of mix cheapness with variety and that that sells it's sold in the 19th century and it still sells today.
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