Talk:Shopping list

Good
generally a good article, may need a bit of sectioning, but otherwise good.Holoeconomics (talk) 12:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Unclear section
In the "Psychology" section, the first paragraph contains the following: "Use of shopping lists may be correlated to personality types. There are 'demographic differences between list and non list shoppers; the former are more likely to be female, while the latter are more likely to be childless.'" However, the only part of the article citing personality as a possible factor is the following, on page 14 of the document (noted 2616): "Nevertheless, we suggest that all grocery shoppers operate under a script that allows varying amounts of flexibility - how much, however, varies by shopper personality, past experience and current circumstances." While it is true that personality is cited among the factors that could interfere with the flexibility of the script used for shopping, it is not cited among the possible factors defining the type of script and the tools used.

furthermore, the order of these two sentences suggests that the citation from the paper is used to support the idea that personality is a factor in the use of shopping list. But neither gender, or being a parent, is a personality trait, and it would therefore be more accurate to speak of social status or social conditions rather than personality — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:861:51CF:B8A0:4D63:4F10:B0FC:3402 (talk) 20:44, 10 February 2023 (UTC)