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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Man, no one here recognizes the post title as a line from a famous 90s movie? I thought someone would recognize it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is the missing chair leg in panel 3 a meta joke about letting little things bother you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

That, or the author just innocently forgot about it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

fucking with your memory is not a little thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It works really well! I remember the last 27 places the bread was, so whenever I go in for a loaf of bread I come out with 28 items in total because I have to have at least one of everything from all the places the bread used to be! Makes for some really interesting changes to my meals too!!1!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

~~FUCK YO CENSORSHIP~~

Respect to OP for updating the image to the proper one!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Food Cooperatives exist. Ours hasn't changed the location of things since they opened the new location, like 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

You just reminded me how my local Co-op downsized (basically walled off the back half of the store) and they did rearrange everything to accommodate that. They used to sell electronics and all sorts of things and suddenly they had none of that and a whole bunch of products also vanished. I'll grant you that it didn't change much before or after that though.

But then I'm talking about the company known as Co-op here in the UK, who are excessively fond of charging no less than 10% more than other supermarkets for the same products, then close their stores in confusion when people shop elsewhere, so maybe this is a different thing altogether. They started out as a co-operative, but they stripped all that back and they're just another, expensive, mini-mart chain now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why are their beans so fucking expensive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That's what good beans cost.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

But that private selection stuff is better than everything else!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I live 5 minutes from a shitty one. I appreciate the convenience. I wish they paid their employees more.

Oh and it's in a "bad" neighborhood. So they pay a fat tall guy to stand there with a gun on his hip. Goddamned hilarious.

I loved going to markets in Costa Rica. Not only is everything cheap and fresh, but there are multiple cops with shotguns and AKs. I would definitely steal from my local Kroger first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

As someone who lost seven years of their life to that company...

BIG agree.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It's not stupid, it's deliberate. I had a friend who did consulting work (in a different area) with a large grocery chain, and they deliberately change the layout so you're spending more time in the store, looking at things, because chances are that you'll buy more. If the store becomes a little too crowded, they'll just change the music to hurry you along.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Market pathing... hated those guys when I worked night stock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Meanwhile I end up just walking up and down every isle, even the isles where I never get anything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How do you get between them without a boat?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

You're talking to someone that's talking about walking on water. It's obviously Jesus's Lemmy account

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

On the one hand I imagine they've done some kinda analysis on how number go up, on the other it's hard for me to imagine that the money you spend on paying your employees is better directed towards making everyone frustrated rather than just keeping the store a clean and pleasant place to be in

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Exactly. There’s nothing - almost nothing maybe - in larger stores or chains that is not designed to make you buy things. Even the way through, Ikea is obviously god emperor there but other follow closely.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

At first, when Ikea finally came to where I live, I thought that was a cool way to keep traffic flowing and the stress level low. $600 later, after only planning to buy a couple pillows, I realized why the stores are layed out like that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I always feel like a rat in a maze when I go to IKEA.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It's literally a single path with no branches (except for the shortcuts), Pinky.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I assume that's how SCP-3008 was created

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the one (and very likely only) time I went to IKEA, I bought almost nothing, because the whole store was just one big stampede, pressing through that singular path.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Never go on a weekend.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a spiritual maze, Brain. Are you done looking at the curtain rings yet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

*struggling to carry a huge armful of curtain rings*

...what a savings!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And after you've been a couple times you learn the shortcuts to the meat balls pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Oh man, I worked right by the new IKEA that got built and before long I could get through that thing in a minute flat

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I like the comic. The censorship kind of detracts/distracts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What censorship? I see someone posted the comic in the comments, and I can't spot any differences. Maybe OP updated the original post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Seems so, they guy who posted the uncensored version thanked OP for updating the post.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

The censorship emphasizes the cursing.

(Anyway, I have no idea why people keep using the tanker censorship in all of lemmy. Just have .ml block your post, you are losing nothing.)