Originally Posted by
Marco
Sure, but there's nothing that indicates a deliberate intention to inflict 'psychological discomfort' [or indeed any other form of discomfort] on customers, as you are claiming. The opposite is more likely, and making things comfortable/simple, in order to encourage customers to spend money!
Marco.
Marco, your argument seems well reasoned, but if you are drawing on your experiences in retail, you may be a little out of date - I'm sure that there have been plenty of re-thinking during the last 30 years or so, and the psychology of shopping will have become something of a science. And in an earlier post you questioned how we could tell whether our need to get out of there soonish is due to it being made psychologically uncomfortable by subliminal methods. The answer is: you can't! That's because it's subliminal!
Also, as you admit to never having darkened their door, then your view wouldn't necessarily be any more valid than me posting a review of say, Rammstein, having never heard anything by them. I reckon you should visit a Maccie's and 'take one for the team', you'll have burnt it off by autumn, a few days of raking leaves should do the trick.
IMO, they don't deliberately set out to make their restaurants uncomfortable, I think they look the way they do for practical reasons (primary colours to attract the young kids, after all they're the ones running things these days, and also wipe clean surfaces because they're sloppy little shites).
I do quite like their coffees, though I only ever use the drive-thru.
Fast food outlets get a lot of bad press, but I don't see what's wrong with them. Look at my avatar - that body didn't build itself you know.
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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