
by Erica Bemis
(Framingham, MA USA)
If you were given a shopping spree to a local office supply store, what items would I find in your cart and why?
I have luck with this as I am a classroom trainer for an office supply chain and I use this to break the ice. I give the attendees a picture of a shopping cart with a blank space in the middle to fill in what they bought. So the point is that they usually buy stuff for other people in their life (Kids, spouse, family, etc..) so they talk about them and they also talk about their interests (cameras, computers, art supplies, etc..) as they usually "buy" stuff that interests them the most.