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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 11 points 2 hours ago

I think my head would explode if that happened to me. I'd just start moving it back to the dairy for them while tutting very loud.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I like a buttery Chardonnay

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

shop smart! shop S-Mart!

[–] Kuma@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I wish grocery stores (especially those you can also order from online) had a page where you could pick the store (if there are multiple) and then search for the thing you need and it had a number label that would be associated with the section it is in. This weird example from op would be: beer 10, butter 10, wine 10 etc without it being confusing because it isn't a category anymore and you only need to look in that section instead of looking like a lost kid running around in the whole store. Also filling up that big sign with just a number would be a lot easier to read from far away.

They can keep the categories if they stick to them, like meat, bread, snacks and so on so ppl who do not care about the number system can still kinda guess like today...

[–] Deello@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Some stores do just that. I know I've done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe's.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Home Depot has their interiors mapped out on Google Maps.

It's fantastic. Since they did that I'm pretty sure I've never spent more then ten minutes in one unless I wanted to.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I get mileage outta this one in particular too. Still sometimes get turned around and bamboozled, overall I've kinda learned to treat the info as more like...the Platonic ideal of a perfectly modeled store, lol. The many changes and failures and surprises just make me even more grateful that any of that info is in there and works well. Really convenient.

[–] Kuma@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, I think other types of stores are better at it. But the stores that are only groceries, are there any that use that?

[–] Kuma@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I saw it a bit late, they actually have a number assigned to the sign. Do they use a number system already? Who is it for?

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

I think it's just so an employee can say "that's in aisle 7" without having to walk you there.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 53 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 31 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

When I was but a youth, I met someone and asked where they worked. They, too, said "the evil empire" (meaning Walmart) but I, being naive and having recently discovered Linux, said "Microsoft?" They laughed and responded in the affirmative.

I believed that for weeks before a Walmart-specific story came up in conversation.

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

Where I live supermarkets have coffee and smoothie vending machines, so you can have an in-store-coffee while you are buying your groceries. They have it installed to keep you longer in their store, hoping that you buy stuff you didn't need in the first place.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

printer ink was somehow related to breakfast

For when you want your coffee really, really black.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Unless you're out of blue ink, then you can't print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.

[–] frosty@pawb.social 1 points 47 minutes ago

So very glad I ditched inkjets. 🙃

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's more plausible that the original fridge had broken down, so butter was relocated to an alternative temporary.

[–] halfeatenpotato@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why would there already be a fridge in the stationary and ink aisle?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 4 hours ago

So you have everything you need to write the company a strongly worded letter about their reorganization.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world -5 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 16 minutes ago

You google what aisle the butter is in?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Omg, lol, beer and wine

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 67 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 hours ago

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 🤷

[–] Zier@fedia.io 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin' away!

[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

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.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] numlok@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Problem is, there were like 8 different refrigerated sections. Milks and juices. Dairy, including cheeses and yogurts (which is where I was fully expecting it to be and which I went back to multiple times). Meats. Desserts and puddings. Salsas, dips and such. And several others. I think I just walked by the alcohol aisle repeatedly thinking, "Well, I know it's not down that one".

[–] YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tenoteve@feddit.org 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Just to add to the confusion, in Germany eggs wouldn't be in the refrigerated aisle.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 2 points 34 minutes ago

To add even further confusion, in Australia some stores have eggs in the fridge, and some don't

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing

Also the butter in the photo seem so big, huge, kilos of butter per package!

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The real butter is in the case with the Kerrygold. American Butter (I see Clover, Land o' Lakes, and Challenge, for example) is typically sold in one-pound boxes of four 8-tablespoon sticks. About ½ kilo in all.

Kerrygold, being more expensive because imported from Ireland, is usually sold as one 8-ounce slab, the equivalent of two sticks.

What you see in the tubs is either margarine, a mix of butter+oil, or whipped butter (adding air to make it softer , go farther, and seem like more).

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing

i once visited a cocktail bar named "buttershaker" in germany, obviously butter is an important ingredient for numerous cocktails too ;-)

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.

[–] smb@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.

Beerstar Galactica, who hasn't heared of that epos !!!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

One more episode. We have time, right?

[–] pbbananaman@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Those large vats are just margarine, so much cheaper than butter.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 7 minutes ago

Aw ghee whiz

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

Nah they have more flavor, but it's all artificial flavoring.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 6 hours ago

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.