It’s like walking through a Maze
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Don’t you just hate it when your local supermarket decides to rearrange all the aisles?
I don’t know if you’re like me, but when I go shopping for groceries (something I hate doing), I like to get in and get out as fast as possible. Today after work, I needed to stop off at the local IGA for 3 simple items – bread, milk and coffee. Since I’ve shopped here a number of times I know where everything is – at least I did until today. It seems that they decided to completely rearrange every aisle in the store so that it took me forever to find what I was looking for.
Believe it or not, they do this on purpose. A friend of mine that works in the industry told me that supermarkets do this because of people like me who get used to the place. It seems they want you to be going up and down every aisle searching because in this way you’ll end up buying things you wouldn’t normally buy. Well, it didn’t work this time! I stuck to my original plan and walked out of there with only the 3 items I had gone for. The only thing is, it took me 15 minutes or so more than I would have spent if some idiot hadn’t decided to rearrange everything.
that’s the way I see it!
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Lola said:
My local grocery store remodeled and re-arranged the entire store layout about 5 months ago. Several times I got so frustrated that I just didn’t purchase the items I went in for, I just did without until I went to another location where I knew where everything was. We have 2 of the same grocery stores equa-distant from my house, so until they were completely done re-arranging my preferred store, I stopped shopping there. They even had gone so far as to add entire aisles by the milk section, temporarily while the laid out the new floor plan. Nuh ah.
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May 6th, 2009 at 9:06 pm -
Kathy said:
Take THAT, stupid store! Mine just moved some aisles, but they did it to push products that didn’t get much attention before (flowers and gifts). Still, it drives me nuts when they move things around. Don’t they know we shop on autopilot?
May 7th, 2009 at 5:13 am -
blueyes said:
Actually I think what burns me more is when you go to another store that is the essentially the same like Bi-Lo and that store is in a completely separating arrangement than what you are used to shopping at and wonder if they are all the same company why they don’t all have the same aisle layouts.
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May 7th, 2009 at 7:01 am -
Christopher (AKA: CaJoh) said:
My wife and I used to draw up our shopping list based upon where things were in the store. After the third time they rearranged the store, we stopped doing that. Shame on them.
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May 7th, 2009 at 8:12 am -
Jude said:
I’m so glad Bill does the shopping so he can be the one to get frustrated. He’s like you he prefers the stores that he knows where everything is and he hates change or at least that type of change.
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May 7th, 2009 at 9:38 am -
Frye said:
A similar thing happened to me except we were going for a full blown shopping trip. Our trip wasn’t as frustrating because we ended up going through every aisle anyway. It does drive me insane, though!
May 7th, 2009 at 9:43 am -
Karoline said:
Yeah…they did that with my local IGA too. I didn’t like it. Yesterday I was looking for some jalapenos…They were on the opposite end of the grocery area. Why can’t they just leave things be?
I hate grocery shopping too.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:55 am -
Angelika said:
OMLY, I HATE THAT!
Lucky for me I’m riding in one of those electric carts, so I’m not walking all over the freaking super store trying to find the ketchup.
It drives me insane! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
May 7th, 2009 at 3:05 pm -
Nicole said:
generally speaking, the important healthy food is around the perimeter: milk/eggs, produce, meat/deli and bakery.
all the processed stuff is in the aisles.its more or less an industry standard
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May 7th, 2009 at 3:42 pm -
john said:
wow, i had no idea. I guess they saw me coming, like you, i like to get in and out, but when its rearranged, i find more in the basket than i went in for.
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May 8th, 2009 at 5:48 am -
Nessa said:
I must be the only one who loves grocery shopping!
May 8th, 2009 at 6:08 am -
clarisseteagen said:
URGH. i hope the trend in the states doesn’t come to my country. . .
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May 8th, 2009 at 8:47 am -
Aria'z Ink said:
My local HEB did this to me (yes, it was personal, I know it and don’t care what sane people say) several months back. I haven’t been back. If I have to navigate anew, might as well do it in a store that hasn’t screwed you over by taking away your inalienable right to know where you’re going!
May 8th, 2009 at 9:58 am -
Derek Bowles said:
I hate when they do that. You go to isle 4 looking for bread and find yourself in the ‘ladies care’ isle instead
May 8th, 2009 at 12:46 pm -
Angelika said:
You have a High Five from me HERE
May 8th, 2009 at 12:48 pm -
Dwacon said:
Hate it with a passion… and it happens SO OFTEN. Like… YAAAAH!
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May 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pm -
Judy said:
OH! I HATE when that happens…I have enough frustration in my day to deal with that. I’m like Jude’s hubby, Bill, I’ll walk out and go to another store. However, at some point, I will have to go back and wander around aimlessly to find what I want…it’s my favorite store! BUT, I ALWAYS stick to my list…unless hubby calls on my cell phone and requests something (this is a common practice of his). LOL
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May 8th, 2009 at 4:22 pm -
*lynne* said:
Oh yeah, you’re not alone. My neighbourhood grocery store rearranged its shelves’ contents oh my probably over a year ago, and i *still* looks for things in the wrong aisle. Grrrrr!
On the other hand, it’s strangely comforting to enter a Target, and know immediately where to go , because the layout is usually pretty much the same no matter where. Of course, it’s also chillingly cookie cutter. :p
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May 9th, 2009 at 12:13 am -
Mike Foster said:
I’m like you, a creature of habit, and get miffed when the grocery switches things up. I noted this recently: while purchasing salad dressing, the store put all the more expensive bottles at eye level and moved the least expensive ones (the ones I buy) to the bottom shelf. Why? Because most people would rather buy what they can reach rather than squat down for the cheaper stuff. Not me.
peace,
mike
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May 9th, 2009 at 1:47 am -
Paul Chaston said:
Perhaps unlike me you do not have “corner” stores near where you live. I always shop at my local coner store if I need just one or two staple items, milk, bread, tea etc. That way, even through I pay a higher price for the items I save money as I am not tempted by the offers in the supermarket designed to part you from your hard earned cash - and the corner shop never changes its layout.
masterchef
May 10th, 2009 at 11:30 am -
Ceridwen said:
Ugh, this makes me crazy. I really hate it when they start putting things together that don’t make sense. Like honey with ketchup instead of with tea or baking or sugar - huh???
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May 11th, 2009 at 3:27 pm -
Suzanne said:
So true! All the targets around me have done the same thing and, even though it’s been at least a year or more, I still can’t find anything! They might do it for the reasons you stated, but honestly I have spent LESS there then I used to b/c if I can’t find it quickly, I give up and go someplace else.
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May 11th, 2009 at 5:52 pm -
Mrs4444 said:
I am SO with you on this! Our local Walmart recently switched EVERYTHING around. I hope I can avoid going back at all…
May 12th, 2009 at 7:12 pm -
viagra said:
Very interesting site, Hope it will always be alive!
May 13th, 2009 at 2:09 pm -
Eric said:
The store that I go to is open till 2am. When I go in there they have boxes all over the place for restocking the shelves. Its diffrent every time I go shopping lol
May 15th, 2009 at 2:59 am -
Signe said:
That’s pure evil! I hate that.
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May 15th, 2009 at 7:37 am -
Chic Gal said:
I actually have a phobia about grocery stores. I really start to have an anxiety attack if I can’t find what I’m looking for and usually I will just leave. I need everything in it’s place for me to feel comfortable. That’s why I like to shop small stores.
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May 15th, 2009 at 10:35 pm -
Blazing Minds said:
Our local Morrisons had a major move around some time back, I’m one of those people that goes food shopping in auto mode and can whiz around quickly to get what I want, except when they move everything around and the washing powders end up where the crisps used to be, AAARGGGGGHHHHH!
May 19th, 2009 at 8:47 am -
top foods said:
Does walking through a dark house that is under consrtuction in which you to trip over a bucket, causing you to break your wrist and three disks in your back qualify you for the title “Dumbass”?
May 26th, 2009 at 11:57 am -
Dekoracje okien said:
Since the shop closest to my house changed their isle layout 2 years ago I never set a foot there. I don’t like wasting time and their competition is just around the corner.
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 am -
Jack Web Design Services said:
We’re all sadomasochists at heart. At times we love to hurt the one we care about, & other times we enter a relationship we know is going to cause us pain yet we still do it. It’s the vagaries of the heart.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
