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I have the habit of taking a loaf of Italian bread, or a yogurt or a drink and drink it in the store. Sometimes I peel off the barcode and keep it to pay with it when I get to the counter. I also joke about stealing something like: Store employer: “Can I help you? …” Me: “Well , yes...I am trying to steal something but you keep watching me... so if you turn around I'll do it I and be done with it.” Most of them laugh and walk away. But one day this new manager actually followed me all over the store until I met another manager who told her not to worry about me.Sometimes I also go and pay for the item and then go back and keep browsing. Since they all know me I have no problem but one day I forgot to pay for something really small, less than a dollar. When I got home I realized what I had done and immediately came back to pay for it. I heard that nowadays they don't tell anybody anything. They just have someone check the cameras in the morning and if they see any stealing they call the police and have them pick you up and write you a ticket.

No, minimum wages in Canada range from $11.32 per hour in Saskatchewan to $15.00 in Alberta. This is higher than most US states.Companies must pay overtime for anything over 8 hours per day or 44 hours per week at 1.5 times regular pay and is not optional for retail stores. Employers must provide a paid annual vacation to most employees, and employees must take the vacation to which they’re entitled.Alberta now mandates up to five days of job-protected unpaid sick leave per year, three days of bereavement leave for the loss of a family member and up to 16 weeks for long-term illness or injury.Employment in Canada is never “at will”, so companies can’t just fire employees for no reason, they must provide a reason. If they do, there is a national employment insurance plan which pays relatively generous benefits to all unemployed Canadians.And of course all Canadians get “free” medical care, so companies don’t have to provide it, and medical insurance is not an issue for any workers.In general, Walmart employees do not require government assistance in Canada because they already get all the government assistance they need.

Let me have the pleasure to guide you through a supermarket today. And, show some ‘tricks’ the stores employ to drive purchases.As we enter the supermarket:Shopping cart/basket:Stores help you with carts/baskets at the very entrance. Some even employ people to hand out baskets to the consumers. Suppose one enters without a basket, one will buy only what he needs as he has to carry all that. Whereas, if given a basket, even if one had planned to only get milk, he might also add a butter spread to the purchase. But, this is relevant to small purchases. There are also shoppers who purchase their month’s needs, and they absolutely will need a cart. So not apparently a dirty trick.Maze of brands:But, what is dirty is how they structure a store in every possible way to make you unconsciously choose to spend more money, and milk every cent possible before you exit a store. This is by leveraging on our human biases (loopholes in our brains) to get us to be as irrational as possible.You will find only one entrance and one exit (excluding the emergency exits) in most supermarkets. Also, the aisles will be arranged in a way to place essentials such as rice or toilet paper at the very end. So, one will have to walk through a plethora of products and brands — persuading to purchase something or the other along the way that you might not even have planned to get.Eye-level shelves:Stores and brands consistently try to upsell — i.e. get consumers to buy premium or bigger value products for better profits. One of the ways is the planogram (assortment of the store shelves).Next time, if you pay attention, you’ll find bigger value/premium products at the eye-level shelves, as opposed to smaller/cheaper packs at the very bottom in most categories. How often would one consciously look at the bottom shelves? And how often would you bend and go all the way down to pick those instead of just taking a ‘better brand’ at eye-level which is just “a few cents more”?Note the descending order of pack sizes/price below:POSM (Point of Sale Materials):Advertising is not only what you see on YouTube or TV. Even in stores, brands try to grab your attention through POSMs:Well,;grabbing your attention may not be a dirty trick. How about using loopholes in one’s brain such as ‘anchoring bias’:Notice how “up to” is small? It is to anchor the “50% discount”. Even if you think “well it’s only up to 50%”, you still would want to check the products out.Now, did you know how long you have been in a supermarket? Have you ever noticed a window in a large supermarket? Or a clock at least? Supermarkets are always well-lit without any hints to the light outside, to keep you distracted from time.And once you are at the queue to pay your bill:Impulse purchase:When you wait in the queue near the cashier counter, you might find small value and/or small size items such as mint, candies, OTC tablets, condoms, as below.“Hey, I totally forgot to get paracetamol!”“Well, it’s just a dollar, let me get some candy for a quick bite”That way, the stores can squeeze even a dollar from you at the last mile in your shopper journey.Of course there are so many more tricks, but above are some of the more constant ones employed. And that’s the end of our supermarket journey!