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Default The dreaded supermarket shuffle


"Nancy2" > wrote

> On Aug 20, 4:21 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:


>> I'd noticed some changes the other day when I was in there.
>> Now it's flat out pandemonium. Stuff is off the shelves. Some
>> rows of shelves are missing entirely. Armies of people putting
>> items in new places.
>>
>> It's going to take me ages to figure out the new layout. This
>> should be fun.


> I suspect they do that periodically in order to up the amount of money
> spent on impulse buys. You don't know where your favorite things are,
> so you have to go up and down every aisle.


I'm sure marketing has told them this will result in higher profits.
I will be annoyed if they start having rows running in two directions,
I really hate that. As things stood today, they put a shelf across
the back of the store, along the meat cases. I just hope it's there
temporarily.

nancy