I finally caved and had to ask.
I like a buttery Chardonnay
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.
It’s often the case, as it was here, that finding an available employee is a similarly challenging and time-consuming proposition.
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?
shop smart! shop S-Mart!
Does the other side of the sign say the same thing?
Sorry I didn’t get back there for a bit, but here’s a pic of the opposite end of the aisle from today.
Neither mention butter.
Unless they consider it a “chilled bev”, lol.
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.
If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.
Omg, lol, beer and wine
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.
This is honestly pretty frequent if you shop for anything beyond staple items. Like, pine nuts are not with the other nuts, for example. Cocktail garnishes are not with the other pickles. Canning pectin is not with the jello, etc.
You just can’t really trust the signs that much. At least in this case it was an entire visible section and not a single tiny box they hid among a bunch of tangentially related items.
Canning pectin is with the canning jars!
Now, where those are is extremely confusing. Currently I think it’s near the sugars.
Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle
Nothing like the old
wine/butterFrench Cuisine aisleFor the really good nights
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.
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.
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.
There are stores in my area with bars, people can just grab a beer or margarita and go shopping
Clever. Makes you want beer snacks or cheese.
Where is this holy land you speak?
I wouldn’t exactly call Ohio “holy”. Jungle Jims for the margaritas and walk around beers, the nicer Krogers all have bars though
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.
I think it’s more plausible that the original fridge had broken down, so butter was relocated to an alternative temporary.
Why would there already be a fridge in the stationary and ink aisle?
So you have everything you need to write the company a strongly worded letter about their reorganization.
printer ink was somehow related to breakfast
For when you want your coffee really, really black.
Unless you’re out of blue ink, then you can’t print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.
TIL people actually look at what the aisle sign
That’s all I do. And if I can’t find what I’m looking for easily I do without it.
I hate shopping
They prob do that because butter is a loss-leader
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.
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.
