Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for January 31, 2023

aaaaabsolutely

Try finding things in your Costco store. They spend nights rearranging things so that you get to buy stuff you might never have seen otherwise.

Timely, as our local Wally World is doing just that. They have moved things to several odd locations and when they can’t readily move a section, they move things to the opposite side of the aisle, brilliant! I believe I’ve figured it out, the Mice have created a maze and we are the subjects to figure out the ultimate question (we have the answer).

been there – done that

https://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2023/01/27

I get confused when I go in a different branch of the same grocery chain.

SOMETIMES…there is a logical reason, as products come and go and take up different amounts of space on a shelf. But primarily, it is to get people to notice products they might not have otherwise.

I’m still of the theory that it is to slow us down and make us spend more time in the store.

What’s the use? It’s just kids doing what management tells them to do. But actually I think the situation amuses the kids when the grannies get their panties in a bunch when the Metamucil is out of place.

As much as we hate it when they do this, the workers hate it worse since they have to do all the work.

Yes, yes, yes!! A million times, YES!!

I have no idea why they don’t want us to learn the maze.

The constant rearranging of things at a store is irksome to be sure.

The ideal grocery store would have one entrance and one path that zig-zags through the store forcing people to pass every shelf. This includes the U-turn at the end of every aisle so people have to pass by both sides of the aisle. If course, such a layout will cause a slow, stop-and-go line ideal for impulse buying.

Because it takes too much to move freezers and refrigerators, the diary section is always in the same place (although products within may move). This makes the prospect of a hit-and-run raid for these products easier.

The grocery store I used to shop at has been raising prices through the roof. Much more so than other stores. They also never had enough employees to run the registers, or provide customer service, but they seem to have more than enough employees to not only rearrange the stock on the shelves but also reconfigure some of the aisles every couple of months. I didn’t get mad, I switched.

At my market, if I buy something twice, they don’t carry it anymore.

Oh, Oh. It has begun to irk me.

That’s the Kroger motto, “Rearrange the store every 6 months so as to keep the customers off balance.” Off balanced customers are more susceptible to impulse buying.

I no longer ask where something is. I ask where are you hiding it now.

They do it hoping you grab where you’re used to, then grab more while you hunt. Pre-order curbside pickup & let them hunt, & they need to hire actual bodies to bring it out.

A local farm store just didn’t rearrange, the flipped it. The moved everything from one end to the other, arranged exactly like it was. The only thing that surprised me that it wasn’t all upside down.

And they each compete with each other to confuse customers the most. It just pices me off…

Every time they did that at the commissary you had a bunch of zombie vets roaming the aisles.

Now this is a truisem! LOL:)

What bothers me is when they place items in some of the most illogical places. I’ve often found myself saying, “Why is this here, when it should be somewhere else?”

The grocery stores I favour do that several times a year. It’s confusing and frustrating.

That’s how I get more exercise. ;-D

We need a road map in our Walmart

Cheese sauce (no names, here!) first by chips, then in refrigerator section, then by pasta sauces! I know it’s versatile, but PICK A SPOT, WILL YA?!?

I took a marketing course in college, learned a lot! Including why they rearrange the store layouts (you end up looking at things you never would have noticed, and maybe buy some).

Our local Winn Dixie is in the process of a major reno, including all new tables and cabinets in the produce section, and all new display cases in the deli. I hate it already, I can’t see over the top of the deli cases, and several of the employees are fairly short, too. How am I supposed to know if anyone is in there?

The new flooring is nice, though, and well overdue. I can’t wait until they finish and I can push my walker down whichever aisle I need to again.

When living in San Francisco we would shop at the Marina Safeway amongst the stores we patronized for foodstuffs. Safeway had a nice little program where you gather coupons and make your list electronically. And then the list would print out by alphabetically arranged departments. They could not printout by store layout even though that would be an easy thing to make possible. then again, it was “fun” flipping from page to page while going through the market. Until they went to delivery and everything improved a bit.

Supermarkets like hardware warehouses should have a kiosk where you can enter what you want to find and it tells you where it is.

Or better still, an app on your phone to do this.