Comment by PunchyHamster
8 hours ago
> Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate case at the front of the store for quick pickup.
wish modern stores optimized for customer convenience instead of seeing most shelves along the way to the usual
OT, but I find this a perfect example why "data-driven design" is an empty term if you don't know what it's being designed for - i.e. what metrics are used to evaluate it in the end.
Both, optimizing for ease of shopping and optimizing for stringing the customer along as long as possible rely on the same purchase data - they just use diametrically opposite metrics for evaluation.