Between my ADHD and the amount of different places we go for groceries I can never remember well enough where anything is to get mad about them changing it. My wife though has finally gotten to the point where the music they play on the radio in the grocery stores is actually getting good which was her sign she’s getting old.
Yeah if grocery stores had played The Cure and The Smiths back in the 1980s it wouldve blown my mind. But they sure are playing it now. Grocery stores seem like 2-4 decades behind in music selection. or maybe it’s just that '80s music was the last time good music was generated through the music industry, and that’s why grocery stores stick with it, 80s music. But I hope for the sake of the peace of mind of future generations 20-40 years from now grocery stores aren’t playing whatever bizarre noises the current “music industry” has been generating lately
Our local Walmart did a full scale reorganization recently and we can’t find ANYTHING anymore. Even the employees are confused when you ask them for help locating something and the app hasn’t updated yet.
It’s terrible. Even worse is when they remove what you’re looking for and re-arrange at the same time, so I can’t find what I want no matter how well I search.
God both Safeway and Costco rearranged recently and I am indeed mad.
(Note: they do this on purpose so you have to wander around the store and end up buying more stuff because you spend more time and walk down aisles you normally don’t)
Imma be honest, hate shopping, so I always hated when they rearranged. I literally make mental map and plan most optimal route to gtfo asap from whatever shop I have to suffer through so making that plan moot irks me.
I used to literally try to speedrun grocery shopping. I wanted to be in and out in the least time possible. I’m older and lazier now. Plus, now I listen to podcasts, so I’m somewhat distracted while I tend to the task. Maybe that’s the biggest difference and the real reason I’ve settled down a bit.
I suspect that a big part why they rearrange at least once per year is precisely because they don’t want people speed running their grocery shopping. When you know exactly what you want and where to get it, you stop looking at all the other products they offer.
My oldest son is autistic and has taste and texture aversions that are powerful enough that he will sooner starve himself than eat something that isn’t right. So when we find something he will just eat? You better believe we are buying as much as our fixed budget can support. There’s a mighty rage to be had from us when something he does eat gets changed or discontinued.
I tend to avoid grocery stores who do that. But in Belgium at least it’s a known strategy that half the grocery stores use to make you spend more time looking for stuff.
Luckily there’s also a store that avoids it because they want to save time of their employees and customers. So if use their app to make your list and select the location you’re going to, the app will arrange your list to be in the order you encounter everything if you follow the lines on the floor.
It’s very annoying in general. I’ve got a visual disability. Meaning I see about 20 percent.
When shopping, I know where all of my most used items are, and where the general category of products is. But if they move things around too much, it’s really exhausting trying to find what I need. And no, I don’t really want to bother staff to ask where things are; I just want my shopping done quickly with as few annoyances as possible.
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