Joke’s on them, I don’t remember where anything is anyway.
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As a career manager in a grocery store, I’m just getting a kick out of the conspiracies here over why stores reline products or display items on cardboard shippers. I want to hear theories on why end-caps tend to change each week.
Easy. Manufacturers pay for endcap displays and choice shelf space. It’s advertising for them. (source: I work for a brewery, and that’s how they put together the beer aisle. I’ve seen the software used to build the shelf arrangements.)
Not to mention, with the in store employees who are shopping for customers now, I can tell you at my store it would regularly take months to update the new locations of items in the system, that’s at a Kroger…
Grocery store by me rearranged the store so that it was organized by country, instead of by type of product. Now there’s 4 individual locations to pick a bag of beans from because the red kidney beans from Iraq are sooooo muuuuuch different than the red kidney beans from costa rica.
I think that’s kinda neat actually. Like it sounds annoying, but as far as gimicks go it’s not the worst
Maybe stores that care about shopping locally should stock all the local products near the entrance, the interstate products beyond that, and the imported products right at the back. Encourage supporting local growers and producers, reducing transport carbon emissions, and make it real easy for the consumer to recognuze the difference
This is a true story and it’s just wrong what they do. The only time I should get lost wandering down aisles I didn’t mean to in the supermarket is when I’m following a nice piece of ass. Not because they rearranged shit to confuse
I’ve litterally never heard of this happening… They build these stores to specific organization standards and almost never change…
You, my friend, are living in Plato’s ideal world - a world of perfect, abstract reality, the shadow of which is our tangible world. You have escaped the cave shadows we call a “grocery store”, with it’s rising prices and shifting aisles, and now shop within The True Grocery Store, the noumenon of all our vain replications…
How have you done it? How have you escaped the earthly bounds of ever changing grocery stores? You have achieved enlightenment…
I mean I use the same store repetitively…
Thars why i order groceries online. Let them find their own damn food.
If they mix up the layout you’re forced to look at more products instead of automatically going to the places you expect a product to be. It’s a marketing tactic.
There’s more reasons than that but if it’s definitely one of the bigger reasons a small stock change can trigger a total mix up of the whole aisle.
It’s also why stores are more and more being designed like mazes, without clear signage, and with related products spread far apart. They inconvenience you specifically to extract money from you.
I cried when they closed the old Walmart for a super center when I was a child. This isn’t an age thing it’s a comfort from familiarity thing.
only one store near me has a very specific cider that they only ever stock occasionally it is pain 😩
I don’t get mad at that as much as I get mad when products are placed in the wrong fucking isle, like the fucking Wal-Mart in Heartsville, SC, where everything is everywhere except on the isle it’s labeled to go in.
they do it so you have to look around more and thus buy more, they also separate essentials like eggs bacon bread milk etc. at different parts of the store to make you walk more and buy more as you go. they also put veggies first and treats last so you feel less bad getting treats because youve alreafy just got veggies
It’s funny because it has a literal opposite effect on me…I just go without and don’t bother or I go elsewhere.
That essential list seems a bit weird to me. Are people really eating that much bacon? And no veg?
i was trying to give examples of the most common bought items, veg is an umbrella term for many different items
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Grocery chains have software for putting together shelf arrangements. Suppliers have to pay if they want their products at a quality location at eye level, or near the ends of the aisle. And of course pay more for things like endcap displays.
Damn this happened to me last month and just today I got pissed looking for my Chex Mix.
