I finally caved and had to ask.
Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!
thats how CEOs define their rules when their then-by-them-damaged company has to pay them a huge bonus for causing permanent damages to the company 🤷
A supermarket I go to sometimes around a year ago decided to “reorganize” everything. The first day I went there after the reorganization I almost suffered a meltdown. You know where they put the biscuits and cookies?
You guessed it! In the same aisle than stationery and printer ink. I am not kidding, the psychopath who did this, for some reason decided that printer ink was somehow related to breakfast biscuits.
They do this shit on purpose. Years ago I worked for the evil empire (Wal-Mart) and they put all the coffee filters next to the coffee makers in the appliance section, not with the coffee in the grocery section or with the consumable paper products. It forces customers to walk around the store to find things. And they would rearrange it every 6 months or so.
printer ink was somehow related to breakfast
For when you want your coffee really, really black.
Unless you’re out of blue ink, then you can’t print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.
At least it wasn’t also behind one of those asinine display doors that has a screen on it telling you what might be inside.
I used to live a couple blocks from a Safeway that decided to put the canned beans and canned chili in the wine aisle, with no sign to direct you there. Is throwing random shit in the wine aisle just a Safeway tradition?
Safeway is a garbage store and its honestly your bad for shopping there.
If you want to give people an extra 50% on every grocery bill I’ve got a Venmo you can use.
*you’re
Lol, no. I was worried an autocorrect got me but you’re in the wrong here. This is your bad.
Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin’ away!
Home improvement stores do the same illogical placement of their goods: If you want to buy a shovel, you would that shovel expect to be located in the aisle with the garden tools, right? Wrong! Of course, it is located in the timber isle, because the handle is made of wood - that’s what they probably thought.
that… hasn’t been my experience. Gardening shoves are in the gardening section and shovels for wet concrete are next to the bags of concrete.
Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing
Also the butter in the photo seem so big, huge, kilos of butter per package!
Those large vats are just margarine, so much cheaper than butter.
And much less flavour.
Does the other side of the sign say the same thing?
Sorry I didn’t get back there for a bit, but here’s a pic of the opposite end of the aisle from today.
Neither mention butter.
Unless they consider it a “chilled bev”, lol.
I never understood that mentality. Like if I want to know something I google it, I ask. I don’t look in an encyclopedia for 20 Mins just to find out I’m in the wrong book.
It’s often the case, as it was here, that finding an available employee is a similarly challenging and time-consuming proposition.
At least you know it’s somewhere in the fridge section, yah?
But I’m sure everyone has done that while looking for something and it is not cool.
You’d be surprised. I work at a store with only 2 refrigerated aisles and people still can’t figure out where the eggs are. Even though they take up half the aisle and are labeled on the sign above. I swear people don’t know how to shop.
