Why We Buy

Author: Paco Underhill

Shopping: there’s a lot more to it if you know how to look. We speed up when we walk past a bank (nothing to look at, of course), so if you don’t want your customers to shoot straight past you, don’t open your shop next to a bank. And once you’ve lured them in, whatever you do, don’t put key items just inside the door. This is decompression zone where we take the five to 1….Read More

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