On 2015-10-15 12:57 PM, KenK wrote:

>> I'm firmly convinved the reason grocery stores will reorganize (read:
>> move everything somewhere else!) is to force experienced customers to
>> have to look at a lot more of the stuff the store carries looking for
>> what they want!! Experienced customers know exactly where the items
>> that they seek to buy are, so they don't normally look at (read: be
>> more likely to buy) all the rest of the crap they stock and carry!
>>
>>
>
> I agree!
>
> My local Walmart just reorganized their grocery dept. - I'm convinced for
> just that reason.


I am rarely in a Walmart but I know the other grocery stores do it
regularly. I am not sure how much of it is based on boosting sales of
specific products or a particular line of goods. I can tell you that
there are entire aisles of the store that I rarely bother with until I
find that they have moved the stuff I normally get and I have to go
searching for it.

One way or another, you can bet that there is someone in management who
operates under the philosophy that people in their position have to make
changes in order to justify their position. If everything is running
ideally and there are no positive changes being noted, there is no
reason for them to be in that position.

Dave Smith wrote:
>KenK wrote:
>
>>> I'm firmly convinved the reason grocery stores will reorganize (read:
>>> move everything somewhere else!) is to force experienced customers to
>>> have to look at a lot more of the stuff the store carries looking for
>>> what they want!! Experienced customers know exactly where the items
>>> that they seek to buy are, so they don't normally look at (read: be
>>> more likely to buy) all the rest of the crap they stock and carry!
>>
>> I agree!
>>
>> My local Walmart just reorganized their grocery dept. - I'm convinced for
>> just that reason.
>
>
>I am rarely in a Walmart but I know the other grocery stores do it
>regularly. I am not sure how much of it is based on boosting sales of
>specific products or a particular line of goods. I can tell you that
>there are entire aisles of the store that I rarely bother with until I
>find that they have moved the stuff I normally get and I have to go
>searching for it.

Every stupidmarket I've ever been in has overhead signs at each aisle
indicating *generally* what items will be displayed... why would
anyone care if in the canned fruits section thay swapped the peaches
with the fruit cocktail, only a blind person would care. The produce
gets switched all the time, primarily for seasonal reasons... anyone
who can't distinguish white potatoes from sweet potatoes and fresh
corn from acorn squash has a much larger problem. Stores generally
move items for harvest season reasons and due to holidays... right now
a lot of items have been shifted temporarilly to make space for
Halloween candy, decorations, costumes, and such... the bakery section
will move all the items decorated for Halloween to the forefront so
some items are moved ten feet away, big whoop, won't be long the store
will be arranged for Thanksgiving, next Christmas, then New Year. I've
never yet seen a store swap the meat department with the dairy
department or the deli department with the produce department unless
the entire store was demolished and rebuilt from the ground up. I
think some of yoose are extremely immature... do your mommies still
have to arrange your sock drawer exactly the same every time or yoose
can't get dressed... I can't imagine any sane person get all
discombobulated because the store swaps the cottage cheese shelf with
the sour cream shelf, with the yogurt shelf... it's all in the dairy
department... the dairy ain't gonna be in the aisle with laundry soap.
All stores rearrange, it's their right, live with it... unless your IQ
is too low to ask store employees for assistance in locating where
they stashed the flat toothpics and girly barettes.