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I walked all over the damn store looking for butter (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I finally caved and had to ask.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Put the need by a luxury item.

I despise this continuous trend of making stores less convenient and more confusing in order to force people to spend more time looking for things.

Same thing with making the signage over the aisles on opposite ends different. One end might be cake mixes, cooking implements, canned fruits, the other end flour, spices, sauces. Needs a trip past both ends to find cake sprinkles unless you randomly happen down the aisle and spot them

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

I had a though recently. It would be neato to have some open source, crowdsourced world database of item locations, where you add this sort of information.

Tagged search of a store, where certain items are. What's stores in a city sell X item. That sort of thing.

Call it "WorldDB", bake it into OpenStreetMap.

No idea what the legality would be, but I would LOVE it.

May write a post about it at some point, as I am no programmer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The problem is that stores regularly change the locations of items so everything would be constantly wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It's all intentional to get you to walk around the store more so you make more impulse buys. Same reason stores will reorganize things from time to time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Push enough soldering irons up enough urethras and this'll stop. Dealer's choice on when during this process to plug in the iron.

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

TIL people actually look at what the aisle sign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That's all I do. And if I can't find what I'm looking for easily I do without it.

I hate shopping

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I used to live a couple blocks from a Safeway that decided to put the canned beans and canned chili in the wine aisle, with no sign to direct you there. Is throwing random shit in the wine aisle just a Safeway tradition?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Safeway is a garbage store and its honestly your bad for shopping there.

If you want to give people an extra 50% on every grocery bill I've got a Venmo you can use.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

*you're

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lol, no. I was worried an autocorrect got me but you're in the wrong here. This is your bad.

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

No ur

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ea-nāṣir shops at Safeway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The Safeway by me is pretty reasonably organized. Probably depends on the manager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

They prob do that because butter is a loss-leader

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well of COURSE the butter is in the Beer & Wine aisle. I mean where ELSE would you expect to find butter? In the DAIRY section? It is to laugh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

"I can't believe it's not Budweiser"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The beer&wine section starts there. The portion until the sign is part of another section, that OP never bothered to include in the pic. Presumably the dairy section.

Put another way: if you're coming from the beer&wine section, the sign probably says "dairy".

Either that or the store people just fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is a Safeway, and those signs are at the ends of the aisle, so no, he didn't just conveniently crop out more aisle that says dairy. The dairy section is usually open air chillers, not closed refrigeration units like this.

Some Safeway stores are ancient and too small to carry all the product people expect to be able to find these days, so they put stuff in nutty locations like this from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ah, gotcha. I'm not familiar with this chain, so I wrongly extrapolated from what others do where I'm from. So they're just randomly putting butter next to beer then I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Butter beer. Somebody like Harry Potter

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Guess I’m built different, I noticed the butter immediately but took 2 minutes to figure out what the problem was before I saw the sign

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It didn't take long to spot the issue but the idea of using those signs is absolutely insane to me. Butter is obvious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Man I hate safeway so much

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

So does everyone that works at Safeway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

And everyone who shops there

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is honestly pretty frequent if you shop for anything beyond staple items. Like, pine nuts are not with the other nuts, for example. Cocktail garnishes are not with the other pickles. Canning pectin is not with the jello, etc.

You just can't really trust the signs that much. At least in this case it was an entire visible section and not a single tiny box they hid among a bunch of tangentially related items.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Canning pectin is with the canning jars!

Now, where those are is extremely confusing. Currently I think it's near the sugars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Does the other side of the sign say the same thing?

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