Determination of a placement mode of an object in a multiplicity of storage areas

A store including:

• a plurality of fixtures for stocking with items of various kinds for sale to customers, with the plurality of fixtures including a first fixture;
• and
• a plurality of items of a first kind, with items of the first kind being stocked in the first fixture;
• wherein the first fixture is selected for stocking of the plurality of items of the first type based upon the following method:
• determining attraction factors respectively corresponding to the plurality of fixtures, with each given attraction factor indicating a degree of shopper attention that customers tend to pay to items for sale in the fixture corresponding to the given attraction factor, with the determination of each given attraction factor including calculating a ratio between:
• (i) an amount of attention historically observed to be paid to items placed in the fixture respectively corresponding to the given attraction factor, and (ii) a total amount of attention historically paid to all of the fixtures of the plurality of fixtures, and
• determining the first fixture from the plurality of fixtures for stocking the plurality of items of the first kind based, at least in part, on the attraction factors respectively corresponding to the plurality of storage areas.