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Default What's for Dinner? (2/23/16)

On 2/24/2016 11:01 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-02-24 7:53 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I hate the way stores move things around all the time. I know why they
>> do it, but it's annoying. It's no wonder I don't like shopping for
>> food. I just want to buy what is on my list, get in, get out and go
>> home.
>>

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> If you think it is annoying that they move their stuff around imagine
> what was like for my brother in law who was an engineer and had that
> anal retentive thing going on. He had maps for shopping. He would
> check out the flyers for the best deals and then head off to town to
> shop at several stores to get what was on sale at the best price at
> each. Then he consulted his maps. He had a map of the town with the
> store locations marked on them. Then he consulted his store maps. He
> actually spent the time and effort to draw floor plan maps and noted
> the location for the various categories of foods. Pity the stock boy
> or manager that he cornered when something he was looking for in a
> specific location had been moved.
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LOL Dave. Publix online shopping list *has* a location map and tells
you what aisles things are on. It's the web engineers who go nuts every
time the store manager decides to move things around and the aisles
change. I find that location map very handy most of the time.

Jill