The magazine and website GOOD which offers articles, commentary, design and videos and comics on culture and society which describes itself as “for people who give a damn.”
Each month the site does a 30-day challenge about how to live better. For June the challenge was to redesign the supermarket . Supermarkets are designed to get you to buy more than you want. The stores spread out staples like milk, eggs, and bananas so that shoppers will end up buying more than they need.
GOOD challenged readers to redesign the supermarket to promote healthy choices and discourage impulse junk-food buying.
The winner, Alison Cross created a grocery store design that has a circular structure, lots of bike racks, shorter aisles, community tables, and an on-site garden.
Check out the winning design and other submissions at the project website –http://www.good.is/tag/redesign-the-supermarket.
IMAGE SOURCES:
Alison Cross
Lyza Danger
LINKS:
Article: Secrets of the Supermarket Layout that Grocery Store Chains Don’t Want You to Realize