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The unexplainable effect of music
The traditional marketing-mix instruments in retail, such as promotion and store layout, tap into the visual sensory system. Yet retailers realize increasingly that shoppers use their other senses as well, and therefore the retail sector has seen a burst of stores with ambient scents. The motivation is usually simple: retailers wish to improve the ‘shopping experience’ and hope to connect with more of the shoppers’ senses in order to stimulate additional, deeper emotions. It is often believed that scents give unfiltered access to the brain: the impression retailers may have is that the sensory marketing instruments are easy to control, and have a direct and immediate impact on the shopper, and therefore sales. ...
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