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The Supermarket: Prime Real Estate," Marion Nestle points out that "supermarket retailers know more than you could possibly imagine about how to push your ‘buy' button." She claims that supermarket companies control people to buy goods by using some surprised strategies. One of the evidence comes from Vance Packard's book The Hidden Persuaders that corporations were hiring social scientists to study unconscious human emotions to help companies manipulate people into buying products. Packard also talked about merchants use beautiful and interesting packaging to appeal customers, especially children customers. It is unexpected that a food corporation not only produces food but also researches people's emotion. People usually think food corporations only focus on developing their products, so before reading Nestle's essay, most readers would not be able to know that food companies also study in other fields other than food field.
What is the central theme of the passage?
Answer:
The central theme of the passage is that they invest in the study of human emotions, so that they can add manipulation factors to their products.
Explanation:
The text shows that companies are not only concerned with the production of products, but are also concerned with how to manipulate the consumer and attract him to buy that product. This is all evident in the line "corporations were hiring social scientists to study unconscious human emotions to help companies manipulate people into buying products," where it shows that companies have invested in the manipulation of human emotions as one of the factors of production, with the objective to increase sales.
