Hi all

What are the factors/things to improve impulse shopping at
supermarkets. What are the parameters/equations/behaviors we should
consider to model impulse buy behaviors in software agents.

Regards

OWL

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Clarification of Question by cyberowl-ga on 31 Aug 2005 00:08 PDT

I'm not asking about how i can sell my software or how one can
increase the impulse purchasing of my software, i want to know the
factors involve in impulse shopping at supermarkets like walmarts etc
and if one want to model the supermarket customers into a software how
he can model this behavior?

Hunger, smells of food, and hot chicks, passing out samples.  To do
this it would take a lot of factors in software. However, you could
have hot chicks passing out sample cd's of your software with grilled
chicken cutlets.

Dress your employees up like business men.  Have a few of them sitting
at small desks located randomly around the store.  Instruct them to
use the software that you want people to buy.  They should be using it
as if they had bought it, for real world applications.  Have a few
large screen monitors fastened high enough for everyone to see them,
and display whatever is on the employees screen.

I know if I was walking around a software store and I saw something
like that I would think, "Hey, I could use some software like that."