I got a new boss three months ago and they create chaos, stress, and uncertainty with their wildly inconsistent directives. I am driven to the edge of insanity multiple times per week an all I can do is try my best to disassociate and do the best I can with the work while doing the best I can to not give a fuck all-around.
And things are not calming down into a steady-state, its just more unhinged with each passing day.
By some cruel twist of fate, I watched them decommission the nut dispenser leaving us to choose between buying nuts packaged in single-use plastic or not buying nuts. 'Twas a sad day.
Grocery stores are stressful places with lots of people where you want to be in and out as fast as possible. So you develop a routine that helps you to do it as efficient as you can.
When they move stuff around it’s not the changes as such that give you trouble, it’s that you have to change your routine, and that takes time. And because you are in this stressful place full of people it can take a longer time to adapt your routine.
If, every time you go to the store, they would empty the store for the whole day, just for you, so no time pressure, no people, you wouldn’t mind if they changed stuff around. You’d take your time to find the new location, maybe even remember it faster, and you’d also examine the stuff that’s now occupying the location of where the things you want used to be. Maybe even think about it it’s something you need. Having stuff turn up in unexpected places can make you revaluate themI just realised that I made a generalisation when this may just only be how I personally experience this. So … Just replace every “you” with “I” … Sorry.
I did feel this today and so I empathise, as the Lidl close to my place got new shelving and they reorganised the whole store.
I felt very out of sorts as my routine hinged on me going through almost all aisles in an S pattern, and I took longer to see if I had everything I needed.
It will take some time, sure, and I’d say that the categories are better organised now, but it was still a bit lame.
Costco, where everything moves around except the rotisserie chickens.
I love change but they completely rearranged our local grocery store after ten years of living here and it never being rearranged and the new layout makes ZERO sense. The sandwich bread got moved from being next to the fresh bread and is now next to the shampoo and flowers. The fake meds (idr the name right now, super tired) are where the real meds used to be, and the real meds are split into two sections, one in the pharmacy and the other in the normal “bathroom” section with makeup and shampoo and stuff.
With all of the rearranging they also got rid of more than half the selection of everything. Before we had a ridiculous number of nice breads and now it’s pretty much just cheap unhealthy shit like Wonder and Sara Lee. But they kept all the expensive jellies and jams and got rid of the cheap ones.
Fucking nightmare. I think whomever decided all of it has never walked into a grocery store before.
Sounds like they might have arranged it so that customers have to search for things and hope they impulse buy things they did not intend to. Profit seeking is likely behind the reduced selection as well.
Oh definitely but it’s had the opposite effect. There are fewer people in the store than ever and personally I’m shopping at much smaller mom and pop grocery stores now.
It can do that yes - I also avoid some stores that do it. I guess it works for them though as they still keep doing it again every few years.
Depends largely on the nature (and scale) of the change.
Change for the better, I can handle.
Enshitification [and bad design], enrages.
Pointless change… why? No really, WHY!?!!!
Pointless change… why?
I think it’s to make you spend more time in the stores, see more products, and spend more money.
It probably works on most people, but there’s such a small number of ethical products I buy, that it just reminds me how sociopathic these omnicidal capitalists are and that I should try to buy less things.
[Well said! [are you copying my words from elsewhere? lol]]
…And restore everybody’s ability to make and mend things. Things that last long.
So many emancipatory technologies to re-avail, out of the clutches of the agnotologically abusive sociopathic omnicidal capitalists. Lost century++.
I don’t like transitions periods. Change is fine. But that time switching from the old to new, is awkward and uncomfortable. So I sprint through it as fast as I can. I want to get to the new predictable normal as quickly as possible.
They have literally been rearranging my store the last 3 times I went in. IDK why they do it while the place is open. It ain’t 24/7.
It was working just fine the way it was before, though…
Roughly 30% increase in sales every time they do it.
Confused customers take longer to find what they’re looking for. Taking longer to find things means they stay in the store longer. Staying in the store longer makes them more likely to buy more things.
Ah, the wonders of capitalism – making a service worse, more frustrating, and less efficient because that’s more profitable.
I cannot stand when they do this. It’s been months and I still can’t find some things so just give up and buy it from elsewhere. Not sure why they’re willing to give up sales like this.
Most people just put up with it.
Like the NT’s I deal with it with anger. Of course to the NT and unlike them in their mind I’m being unreasonable when I do
Autism is my excuse
it’s been over a year here at wm, i still go to the wrong aisle more than once each trip for groceries. the new layout makes no fucking sense.
Rearranging the grocery store is a betrayal
I hate it, when that happens!
