"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 3/18/2017 12:10 PM, Gary wrote:
>> "U.S. Janet B." wrote:
>>>
>>> Jill Mcquown wrote:
>>>> The thing is, I had to hunt for it. I walked up and down the meat
>>>> counter, which is at the very back of the store. I wondered if I was
>>>> going blind. No corned beef. I finally asked the butcher. He told me
>>>> it's in a "refrigerated case up front. Don't ask me why!"
>>>>
>>> snip
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>> You would have missed it at my store if you went to the meat counter.
>>> Instead, when you stepped through the front door they had a cold case
>>> right there. (Hey, let me get a cart first, O.K.?)
>>
>> I went to the grocery store yesterday and same thing - they had moved a
>> cold case right up front. Just like Jill wondered, I agree - you would
>> think they would keep it in the meat department so you walk by more food
>> that maybe you'll impulse buy.
>>
>> This is the only time I've ever seen a meat case in front of store. This
>> must be some new harebrained marketing strategy.
>>
> Thank you! It's a bad strategy, IMHO. If all the person wants is a
> corned beef brisket they'll just grab it from the front cold case at the
> entrance and head straight for the checkout.
>
> At the very least they should have had *some* at the meat counter. I
> didn't go there strictly for corned beef. I had a list of other things.
> But hey, I definitely did *not* go there for exercise!
>
> It's a 55,000 sq. ft. store. The meat department is in the back, not by
> the front door. I don't appreciate having to jog (not literally!) from
> the back to the front to put corned beef in my cart.
>
> I don't think the butcher/meat department employees appreciated having to
> run packages of corned beef to the cooler at the front, either. He
> sounded a bit exasperated when he told me where it was.
>
> From this I gather there were a lot of other people, not just me, asking
> him and expecting to find corned beef in the meat department.
>
> Jill


Here they do both at the store I usually shop at, in front and in the meat
department.

Cheri