I finally caved and had to ask.

  • NutWrench
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    752 minutes ago

    Well of COURSE the butter is in the Beer & Wine aisle. I mean where ELSE would you expect to find butter? In the DAIRY section? It is to laugh.

  • VindictiveJudge
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    114 minutes ago

    I used to live a couple blocks from a Safeway that decided to put the canned beans and canned chili in the wine aisle, with no sign to direct you there. Is throwing random shit in the wine aisle just a Safeway tradition?

  • socsa
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    202 hours ago

    This is honestly pretty frequent if you shop for anything beyond staple items. Like, pine nuts are not with the other nuts, for example. Cocktail garnishes are not with the other pickles. Canning pectin is not with the jello, etc.

    You just can’t really trust the signs that much. At least in this case it was an entire visible section and not a single tiny box they hid among a bunch of tangentially related items.

    • @RebekahWSD
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      62 hours ago

      Canning pectin is with the canning jars!

      Now, where those are is extremely confusing. Currently I think it’s near the sugars.

  • @DragonsInARoom
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    128 minutes ago

    They prob do that because butter is a loss-leader

  • @[email protected]
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    31 hour ago

    Guess I’m built different, I noticed the butter immediately but took 2 minutes to figure out what the problem was before I saw the sign

  • @buddascrayon
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    133 hours ago

    If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.

  • @Coreidan
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    11 hour ago

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  • @Aermis
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    22 hours ago

    Man I hate safeway so much

  • Blackout
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    196 hours ago

    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.

  • @jaybone
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    176 hours ago

    I like a buttery Chardonnay

  • @[email protected]
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    8110 hours ago

    A supermarket I go to sometimes around a year ago decided to “reorganize” everything. The first day I went there after the reorganization I almost suffered a meltdown. You know where they put the biscuits and cookies?

    You guessed it! In the same aisle than stationery and printer ink. I am not kidding, the psychopath who did this, for some reason decided that printer ink was somehow related to breakfast biscuits.

    • NaibofTabr
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      579 hours ago

      They do this shit on purpose. Years ago I worked for the evil empire (Wal-Mart) and they put all the coffee filters next to the coffee makers in the appliance section, not with the coffee in the grocery section or with the consumable paper products. It forces customers to walk around the store to find things. And they would rearrange it every 6 months or so.

      • @toynbee
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        247 hours ago

        When I was but a youth, I met someone and asked where they worked. They, too, said “the evil empire” (meaning Walmart) but I, being naive and having recently discovered Linux, said “Microsoft?” They laughed and responded in the affirmative.

        I believed that for weeks before a Walmart-specific story came up in conversation.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 hours ago

        Where I live supermarkets have coffee and smoothie vending machines, so you can have an in-store-coffee while you are buying your groceries. They have it installed to keep you longer in their store, hoping that you buy stuff you didn’t need in the first place.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 hours ago

          There are stores in my area with bars, people can just grab a beer or margarita and go shopping

    • @[email protected]
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      10 hours ago

      printer ink was somehow related to breakfast

      For when you want your coffee really, really black.

      • @robolemmy
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        178 hours ago

        Unless you’re out of blue ink, then you can’t print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.

    • @NocturnalEngineer
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      810 hours ago

      I think it’s more plausible that the original fridge had broken down, so butter was relocated to an alternative temporary.

        • Chozo
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          89 hours ago

          So you have everything you need to write the company a strongly worded letter about their reorganization.

  • Sibbo
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    9511 hours ago

    Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!

    • @[email protected]
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      139 hours ago

      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 🤷

  • @Kuma
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    148 hours ago

    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…

    • @[email protected]
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      148 hours ago

      Some stores do just that. I know I’ve done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s.

      • @toynbee
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        97 hours ago

        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.

        • @Benjaben
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          36 hours ago

          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.

      • @Kuma
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        17 hours ago

        Yes, I think other types of stores are better at it. But the stores that are only groceries, are there any that use that?

        • @[email protected]
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          152 minutes ago

          Bloom did it 15ish years ago. They even had an electronic kiosk where you could look up your item. (I’m not sure if Bloom the grocery store still exists.)

          I’ve seen other places have a rotating list on the cart handle, which listed where common items would be.

    • @Kuma
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      38 hours ago

      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?

      • @toynbee
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        127 hours ago

        I think it’s just so an employee can say “that’s in aisle 7” without having to walk you there.