I finally caved and had to ask.
I wish grocery stores (especially those you can also order from online) had a page where you could pick the store (if there are multiple) and then search for the thing you need and it had a number label that would be associated with the section it is in. This weird example from op would be: beer 10, butter 10, wine 10 etc without it being confusing because it isn’t a category anymore and you only need to look in that section instead of looking like a lost kid running around in the whole store. Also filling up that big sign with just a number would be a lot easier to read from far away.
They can keep the categories if they stick to them, like meat, bread, snacks and so on so ppl who do not care about the number system can still kinda guess like today…
I saw it a bit late, they actually have a number assigned to the sign. Do they use a number system already? Who is it for?
I think it’s just so an employee can say “that’s in aisle 7” without having to walk you there.
Some stores do just that. I know I’ve done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s.
Home Depot has their interiors mapped out on Google Maps.
It’s fantastic. Since they did that I’m pretty sure I’ve never spent more then ten minutes in one unless I wanted to.
I get mileage outta this one in particular too. Still sometimes get turned around and bamboozled, overall I’ve kinda learned to treat the info as more like…the Platonic ideal of a perfectly modeled store, lol. The many changes and failures and surprises just make me even more grateful that any of that info is in there and works well. Really convenient.
Yes, I think other types of stores are better at it. But the stores that are only groceries, are there any that use that?
Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing
Also the butter in the photo seem so big, huge, kilos of butter per package!
Those large vats are just margarine, so much cheaper than butter.
Thank you for clarifying.
Aw ghee whiz
And much less flavour.
Nah they have more flavor, but it’s all artificial flavoring.
Ahh yes, beer and butter, classic pairing
i once visited a cocktail bar named “buttershaker” in germany, obviously butter is an important ingredient for numerous cocktails too ;-)
Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.
Beer. Butter. Battlestar Galactica.
Beerstar Galactica, who hasn’t heared of that epos !!!
One more episode. We have time, right?
The real butter is in the case with the Kerrygold. Butter is typically sold in one-pound boxes of four 8-tablespoon sticks. (About ½ kilo in all)
Kerrygold, being more expensive because imported from Ireland, is usually sold as one 8-ounce slab, the equivalent of two sticks.
What you see in the tubs is either margarine, a mix of butter+oil, or whipped butter (adding air to make it softer , go farther, and seem like more).
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.
Push enough soldering irons up enough urethras and this’ll stop. Dealer’s choice on when during this process to plug in the iron.
Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!
thats how CEOs define their rules when their then-by-them-damaged company has to pay them a huge bonus for causing permanent damages to the company 🤷
It’s all intentional to get you to walk around the store more so you make more impulse buys. Same reason stores will reorganize things from time to time
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.
If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.
I like a buttery Chardonnay
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.
The signs are by no means a comprehensive list. Surely you’d just check the chilled section regardless. Seems like you were predominantly checking signs.
I’m used to butter being in the open top refrigerated bins. I associate the cabinets like this with frozen food. I probably would have missed it too.
It’s breaks down alcohol into its categories but not list butter? Seems pretty dumb especially since loads of alcohol sections have a cold beer run like this. Market basket is first that comes to mind.
Nobody is arguing the store isn’t also dumb, just that op is too. Grocery stores usually have 2 aisles of cold stuff, it’s not hard.
But they generally list things that are at least tangentially related to what you’re looking for.
Moreover alcoholic and non alcoholic is generally a hard line separation so children and whatnot don’t have any real reason to be around there.
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
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.
You google what aisle the butter is in?
Ya but I haven’t found it yet, mind sending a link?
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.
It’s often the case, as it was here, that finding an available employee is a similarly challenging and time-consuming proposition.
shop smart! shop S-Mart!
Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin’ away!
Home improvement stores do the same illogical placement of their goods: If you want to buy a shovel, you would that shovel expect to be located in the aisle with the garden tools, right? Wrong! Of course, it is located in the timber isle, because the handle is made of wood - that’s what they probably thought.
that… hasn’t been my experience. Gardening shoves are in the gardening section and shovels for wet concrete are next to the bags of concrete.
