The 'Supercenter' Effect: How Massive, One-Stop Retailers Fuel Overconsumption and Waste

The ‘Supercenter’ Effect: How Massive, One-Stop Retailers Fuel Overconsumption − and Waste

Photo by Marques Thomas on Unsplash In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Suvrat Dhanorkar / The Conversation Imagine walking out of a Walmart, Target or Costco. As you push your large shopping cart to your car, you ask yourself: Did I really need all that stuff…

The 'supercenter' effect: How massive, one-stop retailers fuel overconsumption and waste

Imagine walking out of a Walmart, Target or Costco. As you push your large shopping cart to your car, you ask yourself: Did I really need all that stuff?

The ‘supercenter’ effect: How massive, one-stop retailers fuel overconsumption − and waste

'Big-box' supercenters can contribute to overpurchasing by shoppers Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty ImagesImagine walking out of a Walmart, Target or Costco. As you push your large shopping cart to your car, you ask yourself: Did I really need all that stuff? The answer is you probably didn’t. In a recent study, my co-authors Lina Wang, Sungho Park and I found that the presence of supercenters – large retailers that sell groceries alongside gene…