I was at the grocery store yesterday. They are doing a big remodeling. What this means is that nothing is where it used to be.
I hate this. I’m anal about my grocery shopping. I go once a week and try to get everything I need in an hour or less. I write my list in order of how things are organized at the store so I won’t forget anything and so I can get out of there fast. But that didn’t work yesterday.
There were lots of employees on hand to help you find stuff, but unfortunately — they couldn’t find the stuff either. One employee and I looked for a box of macaroni and cheese for 10 minutes. She referred to an updated list of where everything was but apparently, it wasn’t updated enough.
The store is right next to a huge retirement facility and there were a number of senior citizens walking around completely at a loss. They kept calling out to me, and anyone who would listen, that they couldn’t find anything. I just had to laugh and agree. But I wasn’t laughing an hour and a half later when I finally got out of the store.
I get that they are remodeling — so there’s going to be some shuffling of stuff around the store. But that doesn’t mean they have to move the bread from aisle 5 to aisle 12. That has nothing to do with making the place look nicer. It’s more a ploy to get the customer to wander up and down every aisle where, low and behold, they happen to find several other things to buy that they might not have purchased if the bread had still been in aisle 5.