So PetSmart redesigned its stores, relegating commodity items like food to the middle of stores.
It's what professor Thomas Gillpatrick, director of the Food Industry Leadership Center at Portland State University, refers to as the "center store" phenomenon more shoppers are leaning to organic products in the middle of the store, while fewer are browsing the perimeter for traditional staples like macaroni and cheese.
Page Six reports that at a Los Angeles store, the supermodel decided to try on leggings in the middle of the store, and when she disrobed, she flashed customers her, uh, full business because she wasn't wearing underwear.
It is crowded, but the effect owes a lot to the rails of stock that have been dragged into the middle of the store in order to get rid of it.
He said the grocery items in the middle of the store are competitive if not cheaper than those at other stores offering the same products, mentioning items like Kashi cereal.
The day the store reopened, he and Jackeline Davis, a co-worker, stood in the middle of the store; together they said a prayer for the dead.
Last weekend, while cashiers rang up paint and duct tape, multicolored lights flashed in the middle of the store, a fog machine puffed and Officer Darren Curley of the 78th Precinct, the first contestant in the store's second annual karaoke contest, sang a timid version of Frank Sinatra's "My Way".
And in the middle of the store a blue canopy hangs from the ceiling, abovea blue police light.
In the middle of the store, there's a sewing table with a Juki sewing machine on it.
Shoppers rarely drive to the mall, load up their carts and then abandon them in the middle of the store.
