I finally caved and had to ask.
It's all intentional to get you to walk around the store more so you make more impulse buys. Same reason stores will reorganize things from time to time
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Well of COURSE the butter is in the Beer & Wine aisle. I mean where ELSE would you expect to find butter? In the DAIRY section? It is to laugh.
The beer&wine section starts there. The portion until the sign is part of another section, that OP never bothered to include in the pic. Presumably the dairy section.
Put another way: if you're coming from the beer&wine section, the sign probably says "dairy".
Either that or the store people just fucked up.
This is a Safeway, and those signs are at the ends of the aisle, so no, he didn't just conveniently crop out more aisle that says dairy. The dairy section is usually open air chillers, not closed refrigeration units like this.
Some Safeway stores are ancient and too small to carry all the product people expect to be able to find these days, so they put stuff in nutty locations like this from time to time.
Ah, gotcha. I'm not familiar with this chain, so I wrongly extrapolated from what others do where I'm from. So they're just randomly putting butter next to beer then I guess.
Butter beer. Somebody like Harry Potter
This is honestly pretty frequent if you shop for anything beyond staple items. Like, pine nuts are not with the other nuts, for example. Cocktail garnishes are not with the other pickles. Canning pectin is not with the jello, etc.
You just can't really trust the signs that much. At least in this case it was an entire visible section and not a single tiny box they hid among a bunch of tangentially related items.
Canning pectin is with the canning jars!
Now, where those are is extremely confusing. Currently I think it's near the sugars.
Push enough soldering irons up enough urethras and this'll stop. Dealer's choice on when during this process to plug in the iron.
Guess I’m built different, I noticed the butter immediately but took 2 minutes to figure out what the problem was before I saw the sign
It didn't take long to spot the issue but the idea of using those signs is absolutely insane to me. Butter is obvious.
If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.
Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle
Nothing like the old ~~wine/butter~~ French Cuisine aisle
For the really good nights
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.
I don't think I've ever seen something like printer ink at a grocery store.
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.
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.
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printer ink was somehow related to breakfast
For when you want your coffee really, really black.
Unless you're out of blue ink, then you can't print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.
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Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!
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 🤷
I used to live a couple blocks from a Safeway that decided to put the canned beans and canned chili in the wine aisle, with no sign to direct you there. Is throwing random shit in the wine aisle just a Safeway tradition?
Safeway is a garbage store and its honestly your bad for shopping there.
If you want to give people an extra 50% on every grocery bill I've got a Venmo you can use.
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The Safeway by me is pretty reasonably organized. Probably depends on the manager.
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.
Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin' away!
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.
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.
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...
Some stores do just that. I know I've done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe's.
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