One day, at a Trader Joe’s grocery store, Julie Averbach picked up a box of caesar salad and was immediately struck by its label. Besides announcing the package’s contents, it contained an image of ...

In 2016, a Japanese woman who worked part-time at a convenience store wrote a novel about a woman who works at a convenience store. Sayaka Murata's 'Convenience Store Woman' won Japan's most ...

Once a place of utility, the supermarket is now an object of obsession. Platt has training in both anthropology and neuroscience—he’s interested, he told me, in how consumers make decisions generally, ...