Milk Never Changes : me

[-] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm perfectly fine with whatever layout they have as long as they don't constantly fucking change it. No problem for months, suddenly everything has been moved and I can't find shit turning a 30 minute trip into a 2 hour scavenger hunt. 😬

What annoys me more than the store moving things around all the time is the stuff not even stocked by the store employees, but by 3rd party vendors like Pepsi and Lays. Their shit is always fucked up, and almost always in the weirdest place compared to where the rest of the similar products are because they want to stand out more.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

The problem is the shelf space is sold to the manufacturers. Budgets are ever changing and market researchers are constantly doing research about how best to cross sell etc. So the space where the expensive cheese is today could change tomorrow if someone else buys that space

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That’s my Costco.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We need to organize food like libraries organize books. Hank Green created the Chewey Decimal System for that.

Edit: Just saw that Dropout made the presentation about this public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxMR1TMec04

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

Tofu should be kept by both the meat and vegetables, cmv

[-] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

My trips to the grocery store are spaced out enough that I do a quick sweep of the entire store regardless since I'll need things all over the place. However, I mainly shop at Aldi which is small and so this isn't much of a feat. Still, in larger stores, I look up at the aisle content placards to check if I should skip or not.

[-] sfled@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Running the P - I grab a cart and hurtle myself around the perimeter of the store: bakery, produce, meats, and dairy (the home stretch!). If that changes, I'm screwed.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Right way round produce, bakery, deli/meat.

Wrong way round candy, alcohol, waffles.

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I know. Now how am I going to win Supermarket Sweep?

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I wouldn't give a damn about the layout if they kept a little tablet around the store that let you search for the things you want by name and tell you the exact isle number. Amazon has those stupid Alexa tablets in their store but most of the time they don't have up to date inventory

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 60 points 1 week ago

you never old enough to give, a fuck about comma placement though,

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

It was so out-of-place, I didn't even notice it!

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Well obviously it should have been a semicolon separating clauses. It should read:

The older you get the more deeply [you get]; out of grocery stores, you care about the lay.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago

i always read commas as pauses, and when they're at the end of a line they sound like breaths. it sounds so weird in my head.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 week ago

The older you get the more you understand they change the layouts of supermarkets to disorient you intentionally

[-] xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A lot of research and marketing is going into this confusing - the simplest equation is: The more time you spend in the place, the more likely you are to notice products you haven't before and buy stuff you don't actually came for (= don't really need).

Have I said "Fuck Capitalism!" today? Can't say it often enough I guess.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

exactly. it's a nazi propaganda tool that they used to get us to buy more soup. it's… fucked. and now the consequences are all around us, inescapable

[-] xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Is this just a Seinfeld reference? If not I'd like some more info on this... (if it is: well played)

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

so a lot of our advertising and mechanisms for crowd control come directly from studying nazi propaganda. subliminal seduction, disorienting layouts, insane beurocracy (i suck at spelling and autocorrect isn't helping). i really mean it when i say they use nazi techniques to get us to buy soup. specifically campbell's. and to give us the illusion of choice, there's also progresso.

but the keys to nazi control were:

placing seductive images alongside a viewpoint they wanted to hold (think the pepsi commercials where it's just an attractive woman walking up to a vending machine, buying a pepsi, and then drinking it)
disorientation keeping the populace from ever knowing what was going on (think rearranging supermarkets)
state sanctioned violence (think everything american police have ever been)

[-] xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Maybe. Some of it makes sense, but the further you go, the more skeptical I get (seems almost like you believe large chunks of economy and administration are scheming). Do you have any literature on this for.further reading?

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

What insanity compelled OP to place a comma after the word deeply?

[-] Ashelyn 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Maybe German is their first language?

edit: on second thought I don't think so. While German commas applied to English are awkward, they usually still provide a logical flow of ideas. That's not the case here.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or the more disabled. I tell you, in crutches or a wheelchair, knowing the layout can save you 30 minutes!

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago

You think you care about the layout of grocery stores…

[-] Franklin@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Hank Green is hilarious, the work him and his brother do inspire me every day.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Don't forget to be awesome

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

We need to implement the Chewy decimal system proposed by the revolutionary squorm daddy himself!

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Yes at some point you realize the frankly absurd amount of time of your life spent walking around looking for things in them. Then you've found some or most of them only for them to move them again and start the whole time eating cycle once more. Imagine the cumulative time lost by all their customers from just one supermarket rearranging things.

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

You know you can ask the employees where stuff was moved to, right?

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

You're funny. Like there are any to ask. Finding one of those is probably the same effort as actually finding the item.

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

They're usually in the back stocking the store so you have stuff to buy. Guarantee that if you go to the dairy cooler and stick your head in and say, "Yoohoo!" Somebody will be there and be willing to help you, no problem.

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

I understand you're trying to be helpful, but don't assume others are in the same country as you. And don't assume it's the same everywhere as wherever you are.

There are employees, but if it happens to be crowded, they are all at the registers (unavailable for questions). If they are not, they are stocking some shelves somewhere, but it's 1 or at most 2 people in the whole store, so you can of course go find them, but you'll walk through most of the store until you do. There is no "in the back" anymore for stores around here, as they have very little to no storage. Everything goes straight to the shop floor, with just a sort of staging area (people only go there for literally seconds).

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Whoa, I had no idea this was a thing anywhere that has grocery stores. Doesn't that leave you very susceptible to sudden supply change fluctuations?

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

Both yes and no. The store is part of a chain, and orders it's supply from them, who send out trucks from central warehouses (some exceptions may apply, like local eggs/milk or produce/fruit, or frozen goods), with only what is needed at that time. They know when and how much they usually need (typical weekly, or annually for holidays and such), and what they will have room for. Due to order volumes of the chain and purchasing power at that volume, including attached contracts, this usually works out. If not, some shelves might be empty, it happens.

Keep in mind that the warehouse aren't days away, and do have supply. How quickly they can get stuff in depends, but might be "tomorrow" if needed. Also friends if a delivery is already scheduled and/or if it has room and so on.

[-] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

This sounds like Aldi. Is this Aldi?

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Not true. Grocery pickup means I give zero shits about the layout.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

They keep shrinking the aisles so they're too narrow!

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

Are they shrinking it? Or are we just getting bigger?

[-] werty@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Nah. I love food and I love grocery stores. There's always weird shit to be found and it's the only place I feel engaged. If they change the layout then it's a new adventure. I'm very middle aged.

[-] dbbljack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Produce is near the entrance and everything else gets delivered so... I'm caring less and less

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Costco laughs at this

[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Just put like items in the same area!

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Jokes on you, keto whole foods means just going around the outside (the aisles are all full of carbs).

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