This drives me crazy, too, OP. My local grocery store pulls this sort of shit at least once or twice a year, although it feels like three or four times a year to me. And it’s not moving the goods up or down a few shelves; it can be on the shelf across from where it originally was, it could be in an adjacent aisle, or it could be clear in a another part of the store, depending on the item. Fuck, they even do this with produce. Green peppers used to be on the left wall when you walk in. Now, they’re about twenty yards away on the right wall. Lettuce used to be on the right; now it’s on the left. LIquor section, same shit. Wne use to be aisles two and three, with hard spirits against the wall and across from it. Now wine is on the wall, spirits in aisles two and three. The bread has moved around so many god damned times in the store. Sometimes it’s in the aisle against the fridges. Sometimes, the aisle before that, sometimes on free-standing shelving in the middle of the store by the deli section. Cans of peanuts went all the way from aisle 10 to aisle 2. Drives me absolutely fucking batty, ask my wife.
“No. I came into this furniture store looking for Narnia and I didn’t find it. NOT ONE of your wardrobes lead anywhere! Well mister, you can count on a bad Yelp review out of me for this one!”
I’m afraid to tell the cashier if I didn’t out of fear and embarrassment they will hold up the transaction and the line to get the missing item for me.
I wonder if they ask Bono that. Or The Edge.
Post #8. By the way, they did it again. I ran out to the grocery store, and now all the apples that use to be in the central display bins are all on the left side wall, and the lettuce and other vegetables that used to be there have been moved into the central bins. Grrr…
The groceries I have worked at have periodically had what they call a reset. They get rid of any items they are discontinuing and bringing in any new items. Supposedly that is why everything gets shuffled around. In reality, I think it is also to make the customer actually look at all the other products, hoping for some extra sales.
Most of the stores did this two to four times per year, and it is tough on the employees also, it takes them a while to get back up to speed.
Produce Manager is an idiot who thinks he’s making a point by having his people change the layout several time to his specifications?
I usually go with the one they probably hear every other time: “Yes, and more!” It’s usually at Jo-Ann where I go in for a small spool of thread and come out with “and more!”
By the time I get to the register, it’s too late. The time to have helped was when I was wandering the store, but then you were busy hiding or not able to answer my question. Even if you ask me if I need help, I say no, to avoid the inevitable deer in headlights looks I’ve gotten. And have had – when I worked at Jo-Ann, I wasn’t trained on where anything was either!
What I’ll do sometimes (particularly at Best Buy) is choose the in-store pickup option, so they find the item and have it waiting for me at the customer service desk.
I was asked this at Shaw’s once when I was checking it , I was surprise b/c I never been asked if before at any store. I only had a few items so the guy may had thought I wasn’t able to find everything I wanted.
If you answer no, they’re like, “well that’s too bad.”
Huh. I’ve been shopping at the Grader Schmoe’s in Annapolis since 2003, and they’ve noticeably rearranged the store exactly twice during that time, and both times were because they expanded into the vacated store on one side or the other of their location. In which case a rearrangement is almost a necessity.
But damn, they really need to find a new supplier for their chocolate raspberry sticks, which are practically my favorite candy ever. I ran out back in May, and I really miss them.
Well tell 'em to call up the Petaluma, Ca. store and ask those knuckleheads to stop it.
And yeah, chocolate raspberry sticks are the bomb. Too damn much the bomb.
The Amazon box: NO. I’ve tried those. That box sat around forever before I eventually either finished it or threw it out unfinished.
Not sure if I’ve tried the Vermont Country Store ones or not, since I don’t see a box that would jog my memory. But probably. My wife tried to find me an alternative during a previous period when TJ’s was in between suppliers, and she orders a fair amount of stuff from VCS.
Suffice it to say that not all chocolate raspberry sticks are created equal.
I guess TJ doesn’t do mail order? They certainly sound yummy. Not that I need a new snack vice. Finishing off the Halloween candy I bought at Walgreen’s on Nov. 1.
Yeah, I like to plan my trips in five minutes at home instead of fumbling with a tiny, little phone inside of Home Depot. And it seems like Home Depot and Lowes are effective Faraday cages, at that.