This is a rant I have about grocery stores. I work at a Publix. For those of you who don't know, Publix is a supermarket chain in the southeast. We just had what is called a store reset. This is where they rearrange where everything goes in the store to make it all make more sense. Well you know what, it doesn't make sense at all.
The main problem I have with supermarkets is they have multiple spots for everything. They take any situation for a product, and they put it in all those spots. Why don't they just have one spot for everything? Here is an example. After they did our store reset they put nuts with the baking stuff, and on the snack food aisle, and in produce. Why can't it all go in one spot?!? Just because I might use it for baking doesn't mean it has to go there. Get this though, pie fillings that you will always use for baking, go with the canned fruit, not the baking stuff.
Yeah, that makes no sense. I guess nuts are more qualified as baking stuff than pie filling.
Another thing that is stupid is splitting up groups of things that could obviously go together. In my store they have this aisle for cookies, crackers, and fruit snacks. All junk food right. On another aisle is chips, nuts, and other little snacks. Why can't these things all go together, they are all snack foods? It might be the fact that 2/3 of the cookies/cracker aisle has books and magazines on it so there is no room for the chips. Wow. They should move the magazines, they make no sense being there, to make room for the rest of the snack stuff. I guess that would just make too much sense.
Another thing is the organics. We have this aisle that has organic stuff on it. Not all organic stuff on it though, just some. Some organic stuff in on this aisle and the rest is scatted through out the store right next to it's non organic counterpart. What? What qualifies the stuff on the organic aisle to be there and the other stuff not to be there? I understand they want to put everything in one spot for people so everything is easy, but only certain organics are there.If someone was looking for something organic in my store, our conversation might go a little something like this....
"Can I help you find something today?"
"Yes! I was looking for organic things"
"Oh, we have an organic aisle, aisle 6."
"Thank you very much."
....15 minutes later....
"Did you find what you were looking for?"
"No, I found some stuff but I was looking for organic sugar and some other things"
"Oh, that's on our baking aisle, let me help you find it."
To me it should be all or nothing, don't have some things there but the rest through out the store. That whole half aisle could be used for something else. Something like those magazines we were talking about.
It works though. Everything is there and people can eventually find it and regular shoppers get used to it. So it does work. Anything would really work though, it's just a matter of how much sense it makes.
