It’s not stupid, it’s deliberate. I had a friend who did consulting work (in a different area) with a large grocery chain, and they deliberately change the layout so you’re spending more time in the store, looking at things, because chances are that you’ll buy more. If the store becomes a little too crowded, they’ll just change the music to hurry you along.
Exactly. There’s nothing - almost nothing maybe - in larger stores or chains that is not designed to make you buy things. Even the way through, Ikea is obviously god emperor there but other follow closely.
I always feel like a rat in a maze when I go to IKEA.
It’s literally a single path with no branches (except for the shortcuts), Pinky.
And after you’ve been a couple times you learn the shortcuts to the meat balls pretty well.
Oh man, I worked right by the new IKEA that got built and before long I could get through that thing in a minute flat
It’s a spiritual maze, Brain. Are you done looking at the curtain rings yet?
*struggling to carry a huge armful of curtain rings*
…what a savings!
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Fake but still
I assume that’s how SCP-3008 was created
Yeah, the one (and very likely only) time I went to IKEA, I bought almost nothing, because the whole store was just one big stampede, pressing through that singular path.
Never go on a weekend.
At first, when Ikea finally came to where I live, I thought that was a cool way to keep traffic flowing and the stress level low. $600 later, after only planning to buy a couple pillows, I realized why the stores are layed out like that.
Market pathing… hated those guys when I worked night stock.
On the one hand I imagine they’ve done some kinda analysis on how number go up, on the other it’s hard for me to imagine that the money you spend on paying your employees is better directed towards making everyone frustrated rather than just keeping the store a clean and pleasant place to be in
Meanwhile I end up just walking up and down every isle, even the isles where I never get anything
How do you get between them without a boat?
You’re talking to someone that’s talking about walking on water. It’s obviously Jesus’s Lemmy account
FUCK YO CENSORSHIPRespect to OP for updating the image to the proper one!
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A few years ago my local grocery store removed the scale on the bulk coffee section. So now I can’t weigh it and see how much I want to buy. Sign says it’s now weighed at the register for my convenience. Who the fuck is that convenient for? Anyway even though it’s been years I still bitch to every manager I see every freaking week.
I’m really sick of companies making changes that are clearly negative, and claiming it’s a good thing, like in your example. Somehow they’ve all come to the conclusion that if they just say it’s a good thing people will believe it.
I would bring a small portable scale lmao
Don’t be a Karen. It’s not their fault. Their job sucks ass believe me.
That’s what managers are for tho. Yeah, don’t bitch to the cashier, they have no say, managers tho? (Competent) managers can influence corporate to a degree, especially with tiny things like a scale.
Ever been a manager of a store? I have. I did six years as general manager of a Papa John’s. It was fucking terrible but I learned people skills while absolutely losing my mind in rage almost every day at the stupidity of the average customer and employee. This was an extremely high volume store. It was franchise though so maybe managers at a store owned directly by the corporation have more say. I had fucking zero say, just follow orders.
That company sucks balls. I worked at a franchise as a driver for a few years. Saw all the craziness. I still order from the same store I used to work at because my kids love the pizza, and the same 4 older dudes still work delivery there. Doomed to be stuck there for the rest of their lives. It’s depressing
It depends on the size of the company in relation to the store. And yep, franchised means the owner has got to pay for improvements outside of the franchise contract. But still, our scales are accurate to 0.05g, which is overkill for food, and “only” around 7-10k per, if you only have to be accurate to 1g, they shouldn’t be more than 1-2k.
What the fuck are you talking about?
About the example by OTP of his issue that they remove the scales next to the coffee, in relation to being the store manager, considering how little commercial scales cost, while also acknowledging that different stores (franchised or not, size of company vs size of the store) can impact the managers ability to provide such improvements to their customers.
Fuck you corpbot.
Nah, other stores in the area still have theirs. I’m going to bitch till they put it back it was one of their decisions.
You really think the managers of that particular store made that decision? I mean, it’s possible, but it’s unlikely you’re going to make a difference making a retail manager’s shit day worse.
I like the comic. The censorship kind of detracts/distracts.
The censorship emphasizes the cursing.
(Anyway, I have no idea why people keep using the tanker censorship in all of lemmy. Just have .ml block your post, you are losing nothing.)
What censorship? I see someone posted the comic in the comments, and I can’t spot any differences. Maybe OP updated the original post.
Seems so, they guy who posted the uncensored version thanked OP for updating the post.
Is the missing chair leg in panel 3 a meta joke about letting little things bother you?
That, or the author just innocently forgot about it.
fucking with your memory is not a little thing
Kroger sucks
As someone who lost seven years of their life to that company…
BIG agree.
But that private selection stuff is better than everything else!
I live 5 minutes from a shitty one. I appreciate the convenience. I wish they paid their employees more.
Oh and it’s in a “bad” neighborhood. So they pay a fat tall guy to stand there with a gun on his hip. Goddamned hilarious.
I loved going to markets in Costa Rica. Not only is everything cheap and fresh, but there are multiple cops with shotguns and AKs. I would definitely steal from my local Kroger first.
Food Cooperatives exist. Ours hasn’t changed the location of things since they opened the new location, like 20 years ago.
Why are their beans so fucking expensive
That’s what good beans cost.
You just reminded me how my local Co-op downsized (basically walled off the back half of the store) and they did rearrange everything to accommodate that. They used to sell electronics and all sorts of things and suddenly they had none of that and a whole bunch of products also vanished. I’ll grant you that it didn’t change much before or after that though.
But then I’m talking about the company known as Co-op here in the UK, who are excessively fond of charging no less than 10% more than other supermarkets for the same products, then close their stores in confusion when people shop elsewhere, so maybe this is a different thing altogether. They started out as a co-operative, but they stripped all that back and they’re just another, expensive, mini-mart chain now.
It works really well! I remember the last 27 places the bread was, so whenever I go in for a loaf of bread I come out with 28 items in total because I have to have at least one of everything from all the places the bread used to be! Makes for some really interesting changes to my meals too!!1!
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