I finally caved and had to ask.
Omg, lol, beer and wine
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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?
The Safeway by me is pretty reasonably organized. Probably depends on the manager.
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.
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Lol, no. I was worried an autocorrect got me but you’re in the wrong here. This is your bad.
I never understood that mentality. Like if I want to know something I google it, I ask. I don’t look in an encyclopedia for 20 Mins just to find out I’m in the wrong book.
You google what aisle the butter is in?
They’re saying to ask an employee
They should say that then. If I in this position, I’d be asking for help as well. If I’m at a big box hardware store, I’d look it up on their website because they actually do list aisle things are suppose to be in. Suppose. I have had times where the web listing was much different then the database the employees have access to.
Ya but I haven’t found it yet, mind sending a link?
It’s often the case, as it was here, that finding an available employee is a similarly challenging and time-consuming proposition.
Push enough soldering irons up enough urethras and this’ll stop. Dealer’s choice on when during this process to plug in the iron.
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.
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But they generally list things that are at least tangentially related to what you’re looking for.
Moreover alcoholic and non alcoholic is generally a hard line separation so children and whatnot don’t have any real reason to be around there.
I assume a state like California which doesnt care about puritanical stupid
I’m used to butter being in the open top refrigerated bins. I associate the cabinets like this with frozen food. I probably would have missed it too.
It’s breaks down alcohol into its categories but not list butter? Seems pretty dumb especially since loads of alcohol sections have a cold beer run like this. Market basket is first that comes to mind.
Nobody is arguing the store isn’t also dumb, just that op is too. Grocery stores usually have 2 aisles of cold stuff, it’s not hard.
Not sure what the stores are like where you live, but this one (a larger Safeway in a major metro area) has 8-10 cold storage units spread around the entire place.
Some smaller (eggs and yogurt in one, salsas, hummus and dips in another) and some (like this one) entire aisles.
Being ignorant of the facts while asserting, “You’re dumb” is rich, but also sadly par for the course in online discussions.
I like a buttery Chardonnay
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
Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin’ away!
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.
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.
If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.
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…
Some stores do just that. I know I’ve done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s.
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.
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.
Yes, I think other types of stores are better at it. But the stores that are only groceries, are there any that use that?
Bloom did it 15ish years ago. They even had an electronic kiosk where you could look up your item. (I’m not sure if Bloom the grocery store still exists.)
I’ve seen other places have a rotating list on the cart handle, which listed where common items would be.
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?
I think it’s just so an employee can say “that’s in aisle 7” without having to walk you there.
The store’s app will list the aisle number, of the specified store, if you pull up a product. However the app is a cluttered mess that commonly has issues loading, so asking an employee is just faster anyways.
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
It didn’t take long to spot the issue but the idea of using those signs is absolutely insane to me. Butter is obvious.
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.
The problem is that stores regularly change the locations of items so everything would be constantly wrong.
Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!
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 🤷
