ANTHRO: Food Shopping, Grocery Stores, and The Culture Of Consumption

Grocery stores fascinate me for many reasons.  Here is an academic treatment of grocery shopping by some obscure little university  reasearch lab:

Grocery Shopping Psychology
http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/research/grocery-shopping-psychology.html

The Cornell Food & Brand Lab

In addition, some less academic, more "popular" treatments:

How Grocery Stores Use Psychology to Manipulate Consumers
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-grocery-stores-psychology-manipulate-consumers-6693388.html?cat=46

How Grocery Stores Get You To Spend Your Money Even When You Think You Are Being Thrifty!
http://www.moneymatters101.com/savemoney/gstore.asp