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.
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.
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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.
Be Warned You Poor Souls, You Will All Need A Big Shoulder To Cry On.
The Arena Tesco Have Moved Nearly Everything
--the Rotters
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.
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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.....
Well in my shop nothing has moved in about 3 years.... including me!
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........
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.
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I always thought all supermarkets did this as a tactic to get you to see other products, you woudl normally walk past
Well, that is likely the real intention but it isn't usually seen that way by those doing their shopping unless they have all day and making an excursion of the visit.
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It annoys my wife as well.
TESCO are planning another huge site in Canley - they are going to build a new Tesco stores on stilts over the car park and add more shop units to the existing shopping mall...
I wonder if Cov'll ever get a Waitrose? (There's one being built in Kenilworth.)
I noticed last night that Tesco at Arena have greatly increased their range of 'foreign ' food -especially Polish,and are keeping the prices roughly the same -at the moment. Also a lot of Asian cookware and tableware-those pretty dishes once only available in the Indian shops now have a whole section there.
Not only are Tesco building their monstrous stores everywhere, having wiped out most of the corner shops , it appears that they are now aiming to annihalate the many small shops opening up to serve the Eastern European immigrants now residing here.
What happened to the Monopolies Commission-is it still in existance/. If so I cant see that they are doing much of a job.
As I have said before Tesco, is hoping to take over about a quarter of Bedworth town centre with there new store plan.
Conservation area?- who cares! Town draft plan? Who cares again!.
Our 7 year draft plan runs out soon so one can accurately surmise what may happen.
Too many charity shops here and pound shops-the rents are too high for proper small shops, so I am supposing that the N B Council will welcome the revenue from Tesco if it happens and to hell with Bedworth and it's unique history (black as it was) They(the council) have been surprisingly quiet.
As usual , a lot of lip service but little else.
Last edited by cathidaw; 30-09-2007 at 11:59 AM.
I have just heard that Farmfoods in warwick is going to be a M&S foodhall
Thats not just a shock to the system, thats a Marks and Spencers shock to the system!!
Originally Posted by chillitt
I have just heard that Farmfoods in warwick is going to be a M&S foodhall
Thats not just a shock to the system, thats a Marks and Spencers shock to the system!!
A garage on the A45 in Coventry is being turned into a M&S food store.
I heard that too, rumour has it they both are, but not sure how much sense that makes...
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