Move them ten feet in and the fliers and baskets will disappear. Kind of like a speed bump. He has noticed, for instance, that teenage shoppers don't mind bending down to get whatever product they're looking for, while older people resist stooping to get at items on the lowest shelves. Know who's buying what, and it's easier to figure out where to put it. This is human nature priced to sell.
Work requires longer hours, jobs are less secure, and pressures to spend more intense.
Consumption-induced environmental damage remains pervasive, and we are in the midst of widespread failures of public provision. We save too little and spend too much trying to keep up not just with the Joneses next door but with the high-flying folks we see on TV and on the pages of In Style magazine. Imagine a world in which taking the train to work got someone the respect that driving a Lexus does now. It is the system that has replaced the old Cold War system, and, like that Cold War system, globalization has its own rules and logic that today directly or indirectly influence the politics, environment, geopolitics and economics of virtually every country in the world. Today there is only free-market vanilla and North Korea.