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aleister_greynight: The grocery stores I go to all seem to try their very hardest to funnel people from the front doors into the produce (and alcohol) section. I always just assumed they make a large profit margin on that stuff. Is this different elsewhere?
I think it's less about profit morgins and more about showing off the pretty produce. It gives a more effective first impression than walking into a cereal aisle.
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It just seems odd to use prime "Oh yeah, I need 'x'..." impulse space on something that they probably don't sell a whole lot of in any given period. However I'm sure that the marketing team full of MBAs that came up with this brilliant plan could show me in multiple bar/pie graphs that by doing appliances over bread/bakery that they will actually net a 0.00458% gain over the bakery...and I should feel bad for questioning the project that got them each a six figure bonus...
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austerity101: I think it's less about profit morgins and more about showing off the pretty produce.
That's basically what I remember from something in grade school or junior high about things stores to do get you to buy more stuff.
The thing that irritates me is when stores put a bunch of cans of (junk they're trying to flog) in a diamond shape along the side of the aisle. This puts a bottleneck in the aisle, since aisles are almost exactly 2 grocery carts wide. And the stacks of useless junk are sometimes in the way of the things that people actually want.
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Still not as annoying as the shiat bags who push their cart through the store then leave it in the middle of an aisle to walk half the store away to get that one thing they forgot.
Or this super new trend of people pulling two carts with them through the store, and doing the same as above.
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rightClick: My regular store is in the process of refurbing and relocation at least 50% of their aisles. Some of it is getting to clean around those shelves that haven't moved in 15 years, some of it is having me walk around an extra 20 minutes to find what I want hoping I buy some other stuff too.
Still not as annoying as the shiat bags who push their cart through the store then leave it in the middle of an aisle to walk half the store away to get that one thing they forgot.
Or this super new trend of people pulling two carts with them through the store, and doing the same as above.
Those people with two carts are probably Instacart shoppers.
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Priapetic: rightClick: My regular store is in the process of refurbing and relocation at least 50% of their aisles. Some of it is getting to clean around those shelves that haven't moved in 15 years, some of it is having me walk around an extra 20 minutes to find what I want hoping I buy some other stuff too.
Still not as annoying as the shiat bags who push their cart through the store then leave it in the middle of an aisle to walk half the store away to get that one thing they forgot.
Or this super new trend of people pulling two carts with them through the store, and doing the same as above.
Those people with two carts are probably Instacart shoppers.
Pretty sure that's where it started, but now it's hyper efficient super dad/chad. I thought for a minute they were doing separate shopping carts for maybe them and someone else, but nope. They just dump it all on the belt mixed together.
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aleister_greynight: The grocery stores I go to all seem to try their very hardest to funnel people from the front doors into the produce (and alcohol) section. I always just assumed they make a large profit margin on that stuff. Is this different elsewhere?
Every grocery store I've been to follows that produce firt dairy last anti clockwise pattern, except a few where you go clockwise but it's the same spiral. There's probably a book somewhere.
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austerity101: aleister_greynight: The grocery stores I go to all seem to try their very hardest to funnel people from the front doors into the produce (and alcohol) section. I always just assumed they make a large profit margin on that stuff. Is this different elsewhere?
I think it's less about profit morgins and more about showing off the pretty produce. It gives a more effective first impression than walking into a cereal aisle.
Like flowers. It indicates freshness. Bakery is also usually near the front. https://www.baystatebanner.com/2017/01/26/the-psychology-of-supermarkets/
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/plus the added bonus of not interacting with plague rats
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It's on the list or not.
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danceswithcrows: austerity101: I think it's less about profit morgins and more about showing off the pretty produce.
That's basically what I remember from something in grade school or junior high about things stores to do get you to buy more stuff.
The thing that irritates me is when stores put a bunch of cans of (junk they're trying to flog) in a diamond shape along the side of the aisle. This puts a bottleneck in the aisle, since aisles are almost exactly 2 grocery carts wide. And the stacks of useless junk are sometimes in the way of the things that people actually want.
two choices:
run into those display stands while avoiding other people. when management is tired of having to ask for a clean up in aisle 8 from the vendor stand in the aisle. things happen.
move them all in a blockade if able to quickly without detection
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Hyjamon: one benefit from ordering online for curbside pickup...no more impulse purchases.
It's on the list or not.
And they want you to do that too, so you can eat yourself to death even more comfortably.
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Billy Liar: I don't really browse when grocery shopping.
I try to keep my eyes open for unusual or interesting sights while grocery shopping. I mean, "Cream of Bacon"? How could you not want to try that out at least once? I got 2 cans and used them to make a tuna noodle casserole. It was OK but not ridiculously awesome. Years ago, I bought a can of cream of asparagus soup by accident, and the tuna noodle casserole it produced was extraordinarily good. I have never seen a can of cream of asparagus soup since that day.
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aleister_greynight: The grocery stores I go to all seem to try their very hardest to funnel people from the front doors into the produce (and alcohol) section. I always just assumed they make a large profit margin on that stuff. Is this different elsewhere?
I was in grocery retail management for 10 years. You're taught (at least myself and the people that worked for the company I worked for,) that the perimeter of the store (produce, meat, deli/seafood, dairy and bakery) are where you make the most margin (aside from general merchandise/health and beauty, but they have a small footprint.) alcohol is just a break even to draw people in) and grocery was about a 3% endeavor.
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cryinoutloud: Grocery stores exist now to keep encouraging us to eat ourselves to death.
Hyjamon: one benefit from ordering online for curbside pickup...no more impulse purchases.
It's on the list or not.
And they want you to do that too, so you can eat yourself to death even more comfortably.
Yes. Organisms eat themselves to death. Must be nice, being a supernatural being and all.
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Billy Liar: I don't really browse when grocery shopping. I go in pretty much knowing what I want/need. May stop for the day-old bread rack or see if there are frozen clearances, that's it. I'm still mystified why they have eight checkout counters when I've never seen more than three in action at once.
Thanksgiving.
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danceswithcrows: Years ago, I bought a can of cream of asparagus soup by accident, and the tuna noodle casserole it produced was extraordinarily good. I have never seen a can of cream of asparagus soup since that day.
Isn't it ironic?
Don't you think?
Your story reminds me of many chapters in my life's story.
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Spice Must Flow: Isn't it ironic? Don't you think? Your story reminds me of many chapters in my life's story.
...Sarcasm duly noted. I just find it
weirdcompletely predictable that a useful and tasty canned soup could just totally vanish from the store shelves without warning.They're selling these Tapatio ramen cups (in original, chicken, shrimp, and extra spicy) now for $1 each, and one of these microwaved with an egg scrambled in and some veggies makes a great lunch. IMHO. YMMV.
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