Thief's Delight

There's something I see when I'm out and about which may not be my concern, but which gives me pause and tempts me at the same time. Every store loudly trumpets the virtue of its wares as much as it can via the street-facing facade, but some go a step further. I gather that their thinking is, "What better way to entice the passerby into purchasing our merchandise than to strew it all over the sidewalk outside? They will naturally pause to examine it. We will then, like a spider, detect the activity and emerge for the kill."

Unfortunately, their best intentions seem to be for nought. How many people actually are drawn in I cannot say, but I do know that no one has ever come out to sell me something when I've stopped to look at things outside. Maybe that's because they saw from inside the store that I'm clearly a low-grade prospect with little money and less serious interest. After all, I am walking past their store and not driving, but then that shows just how defective the logic of the plan truly is. I do wonder, what could they be thinking?