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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Omg, lol, beer and wine

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

shop smart! shop S-Mart!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I like a buttery Chardonnay

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

I think my head would explode if that happened to me. I'd just start moving it back to the dairy for them while tutting very loud.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I wish grocery stores (especially those you can also order from online) had a page where you could pick the store (if there are multiple) and then search for the thing you need and it had a number label that would be associated with the section it is in. This weird example from op would be: beer 10, butter 10, wine 10 etc without it being confusing because it isn't a category anymore and you only need to look in that section instead of looking like a lost kid running around in the whole store. Also filling up that big sign with just a number would be a lot easier to read from far away.

They can keep the categories if they stick to them, like meat, bread, snacks and so on so ppl who do not care about the number system can still kinda guess like today...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Some stores do just that. I know I've done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Home Depot has their interiors mapped out on Google Maps.

It's fantastic. Since they did that I'm pretty sure I've never spent more then ten minutes in one unless I wanted to.

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

I get mileage outta this one in particular too. Still sometimes get turned around and bamboozled, overall I've kinda learned to treat the info as more like...the Platonic ideal of a perfectly modeled store, lol. The many changes and failures and surprises just make me even more grateful that any of that info is in there and works well. Really convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I think other types of stores are better at it. But the stores that are only groceries, are there any that use that?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I saw it a bit late, they actually have a number assigned to the sign. Do they use a number system already? Who is it for?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I think it's just so an employee can say "that's in aisle 7" without having to walk you there.

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

A supermarket I go to sometimes around a year ago decided to "reorganize" everything. The first day I went there after the reorganization I almost suffered a meltdown. You know where they put the biscuits and cookies?

You guessed it! In the same aisle than stationery and printer ink. I am not kidding, the psychopath who did this, for some reason decided that printer ink was somehow related to breakfast biscuits.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They do this shit on purpose. Years ago I worked for the evil empire (Wal-Mart) and they put all the coffee filters next to the coffee makers in the appliance section, not with the coffee in the grocery section or with the consumable paper products. It forces customers to walk around the store to find things. And they would rearrange it every 6 months or so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Where I live supermarkets have coffee and smoothie vending machines, so you can have an in-store-coffee while you are buying your groceries. They have it installed to keep you longer in their store, hoping that you buy stuff you didn't need in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago

When I was but a youth, I met someone and asked where they worked. They, too, said "the evil empire" (meaning Walmart) but I, being naive and having recently discovered Linux, said "Microsoft?" They laughed and responded in the affirmative.

I believed that for weeks before a Walmart-specific story came up in conversation.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

printer ink was somehow related to breakfast

For when you want your coffee really, really black.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Unless you're out of blue ink, then you can't print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

So very glad I ditched inkjets. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think it's more plausible that the original fridge had broken down, so butter was relocated to an alternative temporary.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why would there already be a fridge in the stationary and ink aisle?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

So you have everything you need to write the company a strongly worded letter about their reorganization.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin' away!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Home improvement stores do the same illogical placement of their goods: If you want to buy a shovel, you would that shovel expect to be located in the aisle with the garden tools, right? Wrong! Of course, it is located in the timber isle, because the handle is made of wood - that's what they probably thought.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

that... hasn't been my experience. Gardening shoves are in the gardening section and shovels for wet concrete are next to the bags of concrete.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

At least it wasn't also behind one of those asinine display doors that has a screen on it telling you what might be inside.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing

Also the butter in the photo seem so big, huge, kilos of butter per package!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing

i once visited a cocktail bar named "buttershaker" in germany, obviously butter is an important ingredient for numerous cocktails too ;-)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The real butter is in the case with the Kerrygold. American Butter (I see Clover, Land o' Lakes, and Challenge, for example) is typically sold in one-pound boxes of four 8-tablespoon sticks. About ½ kilo in all.

Kerrygold, being more expensive because imported from Ireland, is usually sold as one 8-ounce slab, the equivalent of two sticks.

What you see in the tubs is either margarine, a mix of butter+oil, or whipped butter (adding air to make it softer , go farther, and seem like more).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.

Beerstar Galactica, who hasn't heared of that epos !!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

One more episode. We have time, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Those large vats are just margarine, so much cheaper than butter.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Aw ghee whiz

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Nah they have more flavor, but it's all artificial flavoring.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

thats how CEOs define their rules when their then-by-them-damaged company has to pay them a huge bonus for causing permanent damages to the company 🤷

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