Could a grocery store lose customers by making shopping too efficient?
Not every customer wants to finish as quickly as possible.
Efficiency is easy to admire because it removes friction.
The hidden mechanism is experiential value. Shopping is not always a task. For some people, it is a social routine, a source of inspiration, or a break from daily life.
Imagine a store optimized so perfectly that customers enter, buy exactly what they need, and leave within minutes.
A second-order effect develops because opportunities for discovery disappear. Customers may save time but lose the small pleasures that once made shopping enjoyable.
People often think convenience means doing less. Sometimes people return because a place gives them reasons to stay.
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