To the manager of Tescos...

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longdogs

This week, I managed to find the items that you hid the week before.

Can you please move them again for next week, just to keep me on my toes.

Thank you.

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Yes, why do supermarkets have to keep moving stuff around.

Maybe to keep us in their stores longer?
 
Good point. Why do they keep moving everything around every few months? I've tried to work that out and I can only think it's so that we are obliged to search for things and, in so doing, have to look at lots of things we weren't really intending to buy.

Personally, I believe it does nothing to help efficient shopping. I think most men would appreciate that. Women, on the other hand, certainly appear to enjoy shopping and gain some unaccountable pleasure in discovering things in places they never used to be.
 
When I can't find something in the supermarket I always ask a member of staff "where do you hid the .......".

They then kindly walk to me where it is located, which is generally somewhere that I have already 'looked' :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
 
Its a well known ploy as regular shoppers get use to where the items are ,after they work out what they need they just go to them.......so if they move them around the shopper will look at items she would have previously walked past and then a certain amount of shoppers will buy them. They also never put the essentials like bread/milk,fruit/veg ect near the front so you have to pass all the other stuff to get to them
 
The essentials are always in the same place - the furthest point away from the doors, but for the very reason Bodge mentions.
 
I thought as much.

I like the Aldi approach. They don't seem to move products around too much.

Also, not sure if it's the same with all Aldi stores as I have only ever been to two, the two nearest me. One store has the entrance on the right. The other store has the entrance on the left, but everything inside is laid out exactly as the other, but in mirror image.

So, whichere of these stores you visit, one has everything in order right to left, the other the same order/layout, but left to right. Means you can always find what you want. German efficiency. :idea:
 
+1 for Bodgeit's post. They do move things around so, people have to look round the whole store to find their regular things. Did ye also know that, the placements of items on a particular shelf can affect sales? Something placed at , or just below eye level has a better chance of selling than those , low down, or high up on the shelves (up to now this has not affected the sales of "Men's" magazines) :lol: :lol:
 
Bodgeitandleggit said:
Its a well known ploy as regular shoppers get use to where the items are ,after they work out what they need they just go to them.......so if they move them around the shopper will look at items she would have previously walked past and then a certain amount of shoppers will buy them. They also never put the essentials like bread/milk,fruit/veg ect near the front so you have to pass all the other stuff to get to them
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Exactly my point. I suppose you can't blame them. They are, after all, in the business of selling things!

Still, it doesn't work with me. I know what I need, I go directly to it (without being distracted) and if it's not there I ask them where they've put it this week.
 
The one I like the best is supermarkets using smaller tiles down the aisles of expensive stuff.

Its makes the trolley sound like its going faster so you naturally slow down.
 
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