5. Another recent study on the power of social influence indicates that sales could, indeed, be boosted in this way. Matthew Salganik of Columbia University in New York and his colleagues have described creating an artificial music market in which some 14,000 people downloaded previously unknown songs. The researchers found that when people could see the songs ranked by how many times they had been downloaded, they followed the crowd. When the songs were not ordered by rank, but the number of times they had been downloaded was displayed, the effect of social influence was still there but was less pronounced. People thus follow the herd when it is easy for them to do so. 9 E* Q+ p4 g, d0 k0 s
6. In Japan a chain of convenience shops called RanKing RanQueen has been ordering its products according to sales data from department stores and research companies. The shops sell only the most popular items in each product category, and the rankings are updated weekly. Icosystem, a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also aims to exploit knowledge of social networking to improve sales.
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7. And the psychology that works in physical stores is just as potent on the internet. Online retailers such as Amazon are adept at telling shoppers which products are popular with like-minded consumers. Even in the privacy of your home, you can still be part of the swarm.
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8 h) ?8 H& n% H+ j2. In shops, products shelved at a more visible level sell better even if they are more _______________. @: H! u4 x* a2 L5 E
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4. On the way to everyday items at the back of the store, shoppers might be tempted to buy _______________.
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4 j4 _" e5 ~# W' K" ~( v- u6. Using the “swarm-moves” model, shopowners do not have to give customers _______________ to increase sales. ( I; [) e# }8 v# F0 U( B8 H
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8. People tend to download more unknown songs than songs they are familiar with.
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