The grocery store requires little of shoppers. The aisles, the shelves, the counters and cash registers are set up to guide and inform shoppers how to find and purchase what they are looking for quickly and get home. Every aisle, every shelf, every dimly lit refrigerator clearly advertises its products to the shopper. The hot food display, with its shiny metallic parts and buzzing heat lamp glow, beckons the customer searching for a quick and easy hot meal. The hot food display is a symbol of the grocery store's benefits for most people today: convenience, quickness, and ease.
The hot food display, like the pyramids of canned corn or the stacked cereal fortresses around the grocery store, attract the attention of shoppers who may not have realized they needed the product it displays. A tasty chicken with potato wedges probably was not on the shopper's grocery list when he or she left the house, but the smell of the cooked meat and the simple fact that he or she does not need to do any work to enjoy it bumps that item to the top of the list.
Effective displays are centrally located and placed in such a position to afford the most views, the most traffic. If the grocery store is to convince shoppers of the benefit of a hot and ready meal, it must first place these displays in a position in which many shoppers will see it. Hot food displays are often found at the end of aisles and in central positions between the registers and the aisles or the deli counter and the aisles. Shoppers must maneuver around these displays in order to reach their destination, whether it is the bakery or a register. The hot food display is an obstacle that becomes an advertisement for delicious and convenient meals.
Grocery stores have very specific plans for their shoppers' experience. Staple products are in the back so that on the way to purchase milk at the back of the store customers will see the many products they forgot or did not know they needed. Similar products are shelved together, grouped in pairs: spaghetti and noodles, bread and jam. The hot food display sets itself apart in the grocery store. It can be placed in any setting to maximize its intended effect. The hum and glow of the heat lamp and the metallic shine stands out to distract and attract customers in any aisle all over the store.
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