PeachesandRay: Are you "geographically challenged" there Rilly?
I went to get oil and I looked in the oil isle............nope! it was two isles over between the washer fluid and the car batteries.
You buy chips and then send out a search team to see where they put the dip this time.
You find something you want real bad......but can't find the price. You ask for help and they call the person whos department it is. You stand around a while with your thumb up your butt waiting. Then you put it back on the shelf and go home.
Then the old fart says,"Thank you for shopping wal-mart." You reply, "i came damn close this time.!"
HealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA4,775 posts
This is a marketing stragety
Items are purposly shelved in illogical places. If every item were where you expected it to be, you would come into the store, go directly to what you wanted, put it into your cart, check out with only the items you came for, and leave. By strategically placing items where you would least expect them, sales departments hope that you will see other items, not on your mental list, think... why not... and put them into your cart along with what you came for when you finally do find these items; thus increasing sales... unless of course you are like rillyniceguy who gets frustrated and leaves... again... with NOTHING!!!
Items are purposly shelved in illogical places. If every item were where you expected it to be, you would come into the store, go directly to what you wanted, put it into your cart, check out with only the items you came for, and leave. By strategically placing items where you would least expect them, sales departments hope that you will see other items, not on your mental list, think... why not... and put them into your cart along with what you came for when you finally do find these items; thus increasing sales... unless of course you are like rillyniceguy who gets frustrated and leaves... again... with NOTHING!!!
Thank you! I know what they are doing but it sure is a pain (customer is no 1.....but treated like no 2) I feel for the elderly. The rest is just play grumbles!
I like going around when i have lots of time. find the hidden cameras. Put my finger up to the hole, rub and say "Hmmm! This box of Cheerios has a hole in the box."
ClaayerWild Wild South West, Cornwall, England UK15,888 posts
RillyNiceGuy: I like going around when i have lots of time. find the hidden cameras. Put my finger up to the hole, rub and say "Hmmm! This box of Cheerios has a hole in the box."
When I got food shopping.. I EAT my way around to the checkout..
I have a starter,.. main course.. dessert and a nice drink..
HealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA4,775 posts
RillyNiceGuy: Thank you! I know what they are doing but it sure is a pain (customer is no 1.....but treated like no 2) I feel for the elderly. The rest is just play grumbles!
If you think it's so bad inside the store... you should see what it looks like inside the trailers when I get them to the dock!!!
Not from my driving, I assure you!! The guys who load this stuff on the trailers are full of tricks!! This morning, there were 3 small cases of seafood on a pallet, loaded in the nose of the trailer. Directly behind it was a full tall pallet of meat, not shrink wrapped all the way down. The boxes of meat jumped the pallet and were leaning everywhere. The poor old man unloading it had to restack it onto 3 pallets to get it off my trailer. Towards the rear of the load, a bin of apples had turned over and scattered everywhere, on top of blueberries and strawberries and all over the floor. It was a mess! I have seen them load cases of water on top of packages of napkins! Idiots!
Both my sons work at Walmart and my mother, before she passed, was a Walmart greeter after she retired. Walmart greeters are the brunt of many jokes, funny, but I always go out of my way to say something more than 'hi' to them. Not the topic but oh well, it's FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!
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