Great strategy, but if you ever have interruptions that cause you to empty out the larder, you will then starve since you can't shop.

Oh, wait... you're probably a human being not a computer program. Sorry: it's a kind of a reflexive code review process for me by now.

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/time-of-useful-conscious...

Yes. But time has a cost. The reality is, leaving empty handed is a loss.

As for bargains, that's the key. Buy big when X is priced low.

Unless having lots of X at home will lead to you consuming more X at a faster rate than you normally would.

Where did all my pistachios go? I bought like 20 pounds.

A list removes the need to decide at all.

These include strategic floor layouts, the smell of fresh bakery goods such as bread and cakes, special offers, slow music, reduced lighting, fresh produce first, eggs in strange places, expensive products at eye level, and of course, the items in the checkout.

Having a shopping list does help. It's the sticking to it I'm curious to how easy that is.

I wonder what the overall frequencies of different customer behaviors, there, are...

Because most grocery store items are pre-packaged or raw, they don't even register in my mind as consumable food until I put the work in to cook them.

[1] - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1620-sell-your-by-products

[2] - https://zachholman.com/talk/product-is-the-byproduct/