Supermarkets

jj70 · 21-09-2007, 06:20 PM

In the last few months my local supermarket in Coventry has started a new style of shopping. It consists of constantly moving the produce from one side of the store to another and then to another and then to another on a weekly basis, it's enough to make a grown man cry except they've moved the kleenex and i can't find it.

**Shizara** · 22-09-2007, 06:08 PM

Ah, I think that from their perspective there is a method in their madness. It's designed to confuse us and have us stay in the store longer wandering about the aisles looking for what was in one aisle one week and and now down the other end of the store. The objective is to have you spend more by impulse buying. Not sure that it improves your shopping experience if you can't find the Kleenex though.

As a foreigner to these shores I find things in odd places. eg expecting to find all baking things in the same place I go there looking for sugar. Well, it ain't necessarily so. One day I was looking for coffee and whizzed down the main aisle looking for the one that said Coffee / Tea and completely missed the one that said Hot Drinks.

jj70 · 22-09-2007, 08:12 PM

Sorry can't help, needed some coffee for the perc on Sunday and the buggers went and moved it, been to busy today to get some so gonna be grumpy in the morn till Tesco's opens.

cathidaw · 23-09-2007, 01:49 AM

Be Warned You Poor Souls, You Will All Need A Big Shoulder To Cry On.
The Arena Tesco Have Moved Nearly Everything

--the Rotters

Lex · 23-09-2007, 12:01 PM

Marks & Spencer have been using this trick for years; much to the consternation & annoyance of everyobe who shops there.

**Shizara** · 23-09-2007, 08:00 PM

Hmm... Tesco by Ricoh. Not been there, I might when they get around to building a railway station.

It's an evil and nasty trick and I wonder how it fares with the likes of the Disability Act. Say someone with a sight disability comes in to do their shopping. They shop in the same store most of the time and know from experience where things are. Then some bright spark has a brilliant idea and does a shelf contents reshuffle. If it annoys us imagine how the elderly feel.

jj70 · 23-09-2007, 09:39 PM

That's why 9 out of 10 elderly people prefer Whiskars to any other leading brand of pet food they accidentally pick up thinking it's corned beef after a store reshuffle.....

chillitt · 24-09-2007, 11:06 AM

Well in my shop nothing has moved in about 3 years.... including me!

jj70 · 24-09-2007, 06:39 PM

Okay chaps, it's 18.38 and now i'm about to set out to Asda to get catfood, i may be gone a while........

**Shizara** · 27-09-2007, 12:03 AM

jj70 don't forget your sat navigator in case you get lost! - Though beware, you could finish up in some places that can't be negotiated by a trolley.

21-09-2007, 06:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
jj70 New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Posts: 18	Supermarkets In the last few months my local supermarket in Coventry has started a new style of shopping. It consists of constantly moving the produce from one side of the store to another and then to another and then to another on a weekly basis, it's enough to make a grown man cry except they've moved the kleenex and i can't find it.

22-09-2007, 06:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
Shizara Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nuneaton Posts: 1,134	Ah, I think that from their perspective there is a method in their madness. It's designed to confuse us and have us stay in the store longer wandering about the aisles looking for what was in one aisle one week and and now down the other end of the store. The objective is to have you spend more by impulse buying. Not sure that it improves your shopping experience if you can't find the Kleenex though. As a foreigner to these shores I find things in odd places. eg expecting to find all baking things in the same place I go there looking for sugar. Well, it ain't necessarily so. One day I was looking for coffee and whizzed down the main aisle looking for the one that said Coffee / Tea and completely missed the one that said Hot Drinks. __________________ Cool

23-09-2007, 08:00 PM	#6 (permalink)
Shizara Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nuneaton Posts: 1,134	Hmm... Tesco by Ricoh. Not been there, I might when they get around to building a railway station. It's an evil and nasty trick and I wonder how it fares with the likes of the Disability Act. Say someone with a sight disability comes in to do their shopping. They shop in the same store most of the time and know from experience where things are. Then some bright spark has a brilliant idea and does a shelf contents reshuffle. If it annoys us imagine how the elderly feel. __________________ Cool

27-09-2007, 12:03 AM	#10 (permalink)
Shizara Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nuneaton Posts: 1,134	jj70 don't forget your sat navigator in case you get lost! - Though beware, you could finish up in some places that can't be negotiated by a trolley. __________________ Cool

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22-09-2007, 08:12 PM	#3 (permalink)
jj70 New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Posts: 18	Sorry can't help, needed some coffee for the perc on Sunday and the buggers went and moved it, been to busy today to get some so gonna be grumpy in the morn till Tesco's opens.

23-09-2007, 01:49 AM	#4 (permalink)
cathidaw Community Senior Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Exhall Posts: 552	Be Warned You Poor Souls, You Will All Need A Big Shoulder To Cry On. The Arena Tesco Have Moved Nearly Everything --the Rotters

23-09-2007, 12:01 PM	#5 (permalink)
Lex Good Grief.... Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Stratford Posts: 348	Marks & Spencer have been using this trick for years; much to the consternation & annoyance of everyobe who shops there.

23-09-2007, 09:39 PM	#7 (permalink)
jj70 New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Posts: 18	That's why 9 out of 10 elderly people prefer Whiskars to any other leading brand of pet food they accidentally pick up thinking it's corned beef after a store reshuffle.....

24-09-2007, 11:06 AM	#8 (permalink)
chillitt Running on empty Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: warwick Posts: 435	Well in my shop nothing has moved in about 3 years.... including me!

24-09-2007, 06:39 PM	#9 (permalink)
jj70 New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Posts: 18	Okay chaps, it's 18.38 and now i'm about to set out to Asda to get catfood, i may be gone a while........