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[resqgeek]

I can so relate to this article. It certainly seems to me that the grocery chains are intentionally placing products in obscure places to force you to spend more time in the store. I just want to get what I came for and go home, thank you!

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[antof9.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more! And I'm the one in our family who does the majority of the shopping, so you'd think *I* know where stuff is!

But it's never where I expect it to be, exactly as noted in the article. I'm tempted to print out the article and take it to *my* Safeway :)

[florafloraflora.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I know. It's not just the grocery store either. Last week at CVS I spent what felt like an hour in the hand lotions, looking for just plain petroleum jelly, before I finally found a store employee who could tell me it was in the first-aid section. I went to the aisle marked "first aid" and combed the assortment of cold and flu meds and antacids, but it turned out that the bandages were in the next aisle, and that's where I finally found the petroleum jelly. Grr.

[cryingbaby.livejournal.com]

Safeway is a maze. I shop there and Whole Foods (where I do the bulk of my shopping) every week. But I still don't know my way around Safeway. I mean, they keep SOME bread in one area, but if I want bagels I need to go somewhere else. And one fridge section on one side of the store has pickles and cheeses but I have to look on the other side of the store near produce for lunch meats to go with the sliced cheese. The place is getting as big as a costco!

[vysion-of-books.livejournal.com]

My guess is most Toys R Us stores are built so you have to walk through the store to make it to an exit. The entrance is never next to the exit. Meanwhile parents have to drag their kids past all the toys to get to the back of the store where the low priced diapers and formula are (if they are still low priced--haven't checked).