And yes, I know there’s a Pit thread open on this already, but this isn’t a rant so much as it’s kinda amusing.
At the Big Stone (southwest tip of Virginia, PAST Roanoke, PAST Bristol, gotta go THROUGH part of TN to get there) Wal-Mart:
Condoms and Elmo are in the same aisle. With “Miracle Baby”. Literally. Condoms are chest-level, elmo and Baby are a little higher than my head.
Five feet away, in a new aisle (sort of, but whatever): bicycles. Later on, motor oil and such.
Batteries and halloween costumes are mere feet apart. Underwear and DVDs are as well. You can literally fall out of the bra and panty section and break your head on a DVD display case.
Paint and power tools are close, though that makes a bit more sense. They’re close to the Hair Care gear, which is close to the aforementioned condoms and other stuff for Down There.
It is to organization what The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is to architecture style consistency.
It’s the “The more aisles we make people go down, the more stuff they’ll buy” philosophy. I’ve noticed this quite a bit in grocery stores. The problem is, it makes stuff harder to find; there is one grocery store that I just refuse to patronize because I can never find anything there.
Raisins/dried fruit is a real challenge. Usually I find it on the baking aisle (semi-logical), once in the fresh fruit section (logical), but once I found them between the fruit juice and the cereal - huh?
My all-time favorite pairing was having the snacks and the toothcare products on the same aisle.
My car, for the first 350-ish miles. After it broke down (another subject entirely, and which is why I’ve been down here since the 4th), fizzy, bless her (currently asleep) soul, rescued me in a town in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately, my car is still there.
