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The tech companies scanning your face while you shop
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Impulse purchases. You're there looking for a thing that brings you to an area, put something tangentially related in easy view nearby. It's the same sort of thing as why there are single serve candy and soda at the checkout 'cheap, easy, convinient' on items that will generally have high margin to them.
Maybe / maybe not
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