I used to be able to buy these decent off-brand Oreos at Fred Meyers at an amazing price/quantity. They weren’t quiiiite as good as the name brand, but they were still quite worth it. Around a year and a half ago they replaced them with an alternative off-brand that was far worse. T.T
Me, ready to burn down the Home Depot because the windshield washer fluid is in the seventeenth different location this year:
It’s always bothered me, personally.
(back in the day) As a university student who needed to be in and out of the store between classes so in a 5-10min timeframe is when the changing layout annoyed me the worst haha.
It used to bother me more as a kid. Now I shrug it off as if they are changing season products or something.
The real reason os so you are forced to look at other products you are not there to buy in the hope you will buy it. And it works.
Even the people working there hate it, because the customers yell at them and it sure wasn’t their choice to hear customers ranting about aisles.
Why so often? And why get rid of those chips I really like 🥺
Marketing. The longer the search, the better the chance you buy other things.
Two reasons. If you can’t find it you might find and buy something else. The same reason all the seasonal (Christmas, school supplies, Halloween ) stuff is in the back of the store. Also we did this with Target all the time. Called it resetting an aisle. Moving everything ensures that anything that was hidden behind something or misplaced is put back in its right place (zoning). It’s basically a super zone. A reset aisle looks very neat.
Trader Joe’s got rid of their Honey Butter chips in 2018 and I’m still salty about it.
its ok, their other chips have salt too =P
The Japanese grocery store that I frequent had a drastic remodel something like 5 years ago and I’m still salty about it. They made the store more open and westernized but reduced product offering. And some of the locations of where they’ve chosen to put things make no sense.
My scabs haven’t even healed, the wound is still too fresh.
Last year the grocery store I go to remodeled for almost 5 months. Each and every week that I went in there, entire sections had been moved to a new location. Signs weren’t updated at all during the process, and there weren’t any employees to be seen, so it was time consuming to find stuff. Plus, the store was disgusting during that time.
Not only that, but they significantly reduced overall product selection and moved the aisles closer together so that you can barely squeak 2 carts side by side down the aisles. There’s no room to maneuver and get around folks.
The big “win” was that during the remodeling, they didn’t have all those displays down the middle of the main aisles blocking everything up. But that turned out to be false hope, because once the remodeling was done, those displays all came back with a vengeance.
The other big “win” was more space in the checkout area, including more self-checkouts. But that turned out to be false hope because within a few months, a lot of the machines have been permanently “broken”, some were converted to cash-only, and they added AI cameras to them that lock the machine up about every 3rd item.
This happened at my local mom and pop shop several years ago and I’ve never recovered.
and I’m gonna take out all that anger on the cashiers!
Complaining loudly about how it wasted so much of my time, before I proceed to pay by check. No, I won’t let the machine print the info for me, I’ll just spend the next 10 minutes fighting the tremors in my hand to fill it out and pay for my two slices of deli ham and single can of cat food.
I got mad when I worked at a grocery store and would come in the next day to everything moved the fuck around
