The Grocery Store Theory

Im a huge fan of myth busters and the other myths and leg­ends that float around the inter­net and on tele­vi­sion but theres one that catches my eye as an actual fact due to the nature of it. Note though that all super­mar­kets are dif­fer­ent so this isnt exact sci­ence but its still mod­er­ately accu­rate as I would safely put money on it that 90% of super­mar­kets use the lay­out im going to mention.

So basi­cally, the the­ory is that when you go to a super­mar­ket wether it be a smaller one such as the co-operative (still a decent size) or the big­ger super­mar­kets such as your local ASDA, Tesco, Sains­bury or Morin­sons (theres prob­a­bly more but i cant remem­ber) also note that these are British Super Mar­kets that im talk­ing about so sorry to the Amer­i­cans as I have no idea what you guys use but I know that in Aus­tralia its Coles and Wool­worths. Any­way, the the­ory is that when you go into these super­mar­kets, the lay­out is typ­i­cally done so your fresh fruits, veg­eta­bles and other fresh goods etc are around the out­side of the store or perim­iter as some peo­ple might pre­fer to call it.

I know that from per­sonal expe­ri­ence when ive gone shop­ping the odd time that typ­i­cally around the perim­iter is the registers/tills, fresh fruit and veg, freezer/fridge sec­tion and on the back wall typ­i­cally bread and the deli sec­tion and what­not. So even if these isles vary its not going to be a huge ammount and chances are the sec­tion con­tain­ing the junk food such as cakes and bis­cuits and candy and other fatty stuff will be crammed in the mid­dle of the supermarket.

So by avoid­ing this black­hole aka the mid­dle of the shop­ping cen­ter you dont come into con­tact with the junk food and as a result you cant pick it up and as an even fur­ther result if you havnnt picked it up then you cant buy it mean­ing that in the long run it doesnt enter your stom­ach, get digested and turn into the fat that brings you to this web­site in the first place.

So there we have it, avoid the mid­dle of the shop­ping cen­ter and avoid pilling on excess pounds.

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