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Never gotten mad or irritated about this. The only times where it happens, at least here in Sweden, is when they renovate/expand the store (which very much isn't often). It only happens when it's a good thing. And I like walking around and discovering the new layout and see what they did with the space and modernised tech.
Am I the only one feeling super unconfortable seeing these types of memes when the next article in my feed is about how 25% of people worldwide don't have access to clean water?
No, you are not. The vast majority of people here and anywhere else on the Internet live in a luxury bubble compared to most of the world and a disturbing amount of them will never realise that.
The things that irk me are: Narrowed aisles / space between the shelves and reduced selection.
The local Wally World was the worst about all of the above, but the grocery store in town also remodeled recently and seems to have done the same thing.
I think one of the reasons it irritates me is because it makes no logical sense to me, they've moved the shelves closer together and reduced aisle space so they can fit in more shelves, wouldn't that theoretically mean there's room for a bigger selection of items? How is it even possible that the aisles are smaller and yet so many of the brands/items I bought regularly are no longer available?
Actually, in the case of Walmart, I think I know the answer. The main aisles used to be wide enough for 6 - 8+ shopping carts minimum, except from September through early January when all the displays of holiday junk would be placed out. Now, they've placed a mix of seasonal and non-seasonal displays in the center of all the main aisles year round, using all that space people could use to traverse the store more quickly.
Most of the year, those displays are filled with the exact same brands and products that are also sitting and taking up regular shelf space as well. Heaven forbid if I want some Marie Sharp's hot sauce. They've got 8 types of Texas Pete, and a display of Texas Pete hot sauce in the main aisle, and a smaller display on an end cap near the meats. If I want some Dolly Parton cake mix and icing, there are 4 places in the store that they keep it. Suppose that's also why they stopped carrying my preferred flavor/brand of gum.
YELLING AT CLOUDS
Not mad. Quietly dissapointed, heavy sigh, start searching.
i don't get angry because they rearranged the store, i get angry because they ONLY rearranged the store so some worthless, nepo-baby dipshit can justify their existence at the company because they came to the conclusion--after 25 focus groups-- that it'd increase shareholder value by $0.0003 to move the pasta to aisle 3
I figured they just do it regularly so customers have to look at more extra shit they might impulse buy, rather than based on some study of product location adjacency.
typical shareholder meeting in america:
ceo: i've come to a stunning conclusion, and i don't want to ruffle too many feathers or cause a heart attack--we know what happened to MCfunky last week.
uneasy laughter
ceo: but i have a crazy idea that i'm sure is going to shock everyone in the room, and i'm hesitant to even say this out loud, but, how about we cut one employee per store and raise the prices on ALL items by a nickel!
the room of shareholders went completely silent, until the oldest of the bunch cut a huge fart. what happened next was a raucous laughter that wasn't heard since the first test screening of 'a princess bride' and a round of applause that was usually reserved for a barack obama speech @ $200k a seat (champagne optional).
the forbes editor who was deployed to the meeting immediately came in his pants and a rothschild graciously committed to buying him a new pair, despite the known frugality of the ultra-wealthy (they wouldn't be rich if they didn't know how to work a penny). she told him, 'meet me on rodeo drive next week and i got you covered' but he missed the appointment because he was supposed to cover alysa liu's birthday extravaganza.
she was fat anyway, at least that what he told himself. she was kinda fat by european or asian standards but we were in america and the rules of the wild west still apply. who cares how much money she has. alysa dyed her hair green this week. that's all that really matters,.
You summed up one of the biggest problems in America pretty succinctly.
I've ended my relationship with stores for this reason.
they moved the electric kettles ONE SHELF OVER. that's all. i was just waiting for the pharmacy, i wasn't even buying anything. hold on i just got myself worked up i need to make some tea. ELECTRIC KETTLES AAAA IT'S GONNA BE LIKE THIS ALL WEEK
Bruh, i just experienced this yesterday. I had my kid with me too, so I was on edge and distracted and couldnt find the goddamn cauliflower
The new Aldi layout at mine is terrible. The vegetables are right at the entrance, which clogs things up because everyone browses vegetables. Plus basically all the regular groceries are in one aisle now, so its all crowded.
We need a standardized grocery store organization system. Like dewey decimal.
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This is why I can't fuck with Trader Joe's.
I swear Trader Joes does this specifically to make you walk the whole store. It's small enough that you're probably walking the whole thing anyway, but I can never just run in and grab what I might need.
100%. I don't know how people shop there. It's like a place to wander around and find random stuff.
I just don’t understand why the international foods are a separate aisle. Can those sauces not sit next to the other sauces? Can all types of noodles not co-exist in the same aisle? Why can’t masa flour live next to wheat flour?
The more I think about this, the more it annoys me.
There's a lot of time and money spent analyzing where to put things to maximize customer spending. It's why milk and eggs are usually at the back of the store, so that you have to walk through the entire store to get them, and you may find something else to buy on the way there. It's also why "low-interest" items like international foods get put together in their own low-traffic aisle.
That’s also why they rearrange things - not to optimise the layout, but because they hope people will impulse-buy things while looking for the things which have moved
International foods might be "low interest" for many consumers, but for me it's the most interesting aisle in the supermarket.
Nothing I like more than finding some new and interesting stuff, so I'm happy they put it all in the same place.
As far as price goes, it's all over. You might find a bottle of Japanese Kewpie mayo for way more than speciality Asian supermarkets ask for, but on the other hand find a huge bag of pistachio nuts for way less money (by volume) than they're charging for nuts in the 'regular' nuts section.
It's genuinely like supermarkets know they need to sell this stuff but haven't quite worked out what to do with it yet.
The soft drinks and sports drinks used to be right next to each other, now they're 3 aisles apart. What were they thinking?!
sports drinks are a 'health food' now their sales are going up
soft drinks are a 'bad food' and their sales are going down
so they must be separated
so they must be separated
Marketing
isn't struggling to deal with change one of the classic autism traits?
Yeah but also its incredibly normal to get mad when the shop changes layouts. They do it on purpose, creating extra work for the workers, extra time and effort for you, because they've pushed some bullshit charts around a table and have scientifically deduced that they can squeeze an extra couple of quid out of you.
Actually infuriating.
Is that something that happens regulary in your place? Here in germany, I've only seen it after they renovated or replacex old fridges or something
In Canada, all the fucking time. I find it infuriating. Never more than a year goes by, often less.
That quick in and out isn't quick anymore.
In the USA there's studies and such that track how to maximize money from someone shopping. Milk is a well used staple, so it's always in the fucking back of the store. So you have to go past most everything else to get to it. Then end caps have special, cheap pick up deals for someone who is just here for milk that they may not pass up. Then the checkout the rule is something like $3 and less for items there. Candy, water, soda, everything a kid craves right there to whine and pester the parents about.
yes, usa grocery stores change their layouts once every other year or so. it's because they think it will increase sales.
mine literally just changed the layout a month ago. it isn't everything, usually it's only about 20-30% of the store that moves.
also sometimes it corresponds to the fact they have changed product lines or vendors or marketing. for example years ago my store had an 'organics' aisle, and that went away 3 years ago and they just put the organic options next to the regular items instead do having their own distinct aisle. so if you needed one organic bread and one non-organic, you had to go to two different sections of the store.
also many usa stores massively increased floor space to pre-made in-store foods over the past 5 years. most of my stores at least 1/4 - 1/3 of the store is ready to eat items now, because fewer and fewer people want to cook or prepare their own food. there are fewer groceries now.
they're just pushing more higher margin products. they'll restock the 'basics' more frequently as a result of giving those things less shelf space.
The aging population and those with disabilities is also part of the demand for ready to eat items in addition to those that just don't have the time anymore because they work two jobs and want something better than fast food.
Garron Noone wrote a song about it. Blame the English cunts.
changing the grocery store aisles is annoying because you can't shop from habit anymore and you have to figure out the new layout. after you adapt by going a few items you forget about it. it's annoying to go to aisle 4 for bread and then it's all chips and you have to figure out where they moved the bread, and it's on the other side of the store.
it has nothing to do with autism. normies get annoyed when they change it, and i was annoyed as a child when they changed it.
it's been almost a year here, i'm still going down (what my mind thinks is) the 'correct' aisle, only to be reminded when i get there that what i'm looking for i literally walked past a minute earlier, five rows back.
It's also normal to become less accepting of change as you age. I think this has to do with decreasing neural plasticity and the "crystalized" intelligence (accumulation of information) that comes with age even as "fluid" intelligence (processing speed, etc) declines.
Synaptic strengthening happens as you age - you will lose neuronal density, but the neuronal connections you still have are stronger and more efficient. The myelin sheaths around these neurons thicken well into middle age. The distracting neuronal channels, things that didn't serve you over your years of experience, have died off leaving only the most effective connections.
So, you're old, you know how stuff is supposed to be. You work well within that framework. When things change, it's harder for you to keep up with it. It puts your brain under proportionally more load.
So you get mad when the bread aisle moves.
The effect (aversion to change) is similar to autism, but the cause is basically the exact opposite (autistic folk have higher neuronal density, older folks have less than they used to).
In effect, autistic people don't like when the bread aisle moves because they have to parse that information through a much more complicated and dense web of neuronal connections, which causes overstimulation and increased cognitive load. Old people have to use old dusty disused neurons, which also causes cognitive strain, and not their nice efficient, highly myelinated neurons.
I kinda miss grocery stores. Where I stay now there isn't a single store like that, just many small shops. You get used to things maybe being there, maybe not.
My brain rearranges the grocery store shelves just fine. It's a dystopian adventure every time I go shopping. Maybe I have alcoholic dementia from my drinking days.
They moved my princess auto to a new location.... it's only like 5 min up the road, but all the layouts are different. Fucking shit fuck shit on you for this. I couldn't have been more angry about something. Can't find shit. The selection of hydraulics I need is significantly reduced. Everything that is related is now in complete other sections of the damn store.
The tools are usually in the center still, so that's all I care about. But the outside aisles change depending on store size. I wish they would get rid of the cheap crap nobody buys at the back of the store and expand the important aisles with stuff we do buy.
Man in the old store they, had npt,jic,metric,orfs,orb,code 62 and adapters in between most of them or a way to get from one to another. Now it's just jic and npt and only up to 1". They sell a damn 1.5" tank truck hose, but only 1.25'barbs and hose clamps.
Yeah alot of the stuff in the surplus is just shelf filler. Feels like they are just praying on hoarders and guys that are like "I'll use that one day"
