• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      (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.

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      It used to bother me more as a kid. Now I shrug it off as if they are changing season products or something.

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    Why so often? And why get rid of those chips I really like 🥺

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      Marketing. The longer the search, the better the chance you buy other things.

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        I’m 98% sure this is a lie told by marketing agencies who base it on biased research.

        Rearranging a store means closing it for often days, investing in additional staff hours, contractors, etc., having the staff work slower for the next week until they get the hang of the new structure.

        And the result is two people buying a pack of butter more during the next week?

        And think about it, that scheme only works for customers who already know the store. So they’re regulars. If they buy more butter this week, they’ll buy less butter next week - because they still have butter.

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          I’m not saying you are wrong but when I worked at Walmart if we rearranged anything it was just done by isle while the store was open and when we would go to scan a product it just told us what spot it goes in

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            when we would go to scan a product it just told us what spot it goes in

            If the website could just tell me what aisle things are in then I wouldn’t care. (Some stores do this, not all.)

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              Honestly though like the store app will let me pull up exact item locations where the normal app just says it’s in an aisle I wish more stores did it too it’s really handy

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                Kroger app gives me the aisle and then puts a little pin on the store map that shows where it is within the aisle. Lowe’s and Home Depot usually gives me the aisle number and a bin number within the aisle. I don’t good to these places enough to remember where things are, it’s the only reason I got their apps though, it saves me a lot of time when I do go to get something.

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                  That’s really nice I’ve only ever gone to Home Depot but never enough to even know they had a app

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      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.

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    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.

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    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

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      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.

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    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.

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    Me, ready to burn down the Home Depot because the windshield washer fluid is in the seventeenth different location this year:

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    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.

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    I got mad when I worked at a grocery store and would come in the next day to everything moved the fuck around