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11-23-2007, 08:37 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | Grocery Store Layout
When I was a kid we used to shop at Dominick's. I knew the layout by heart. Then I don't know, 10 years ago or so they moved their store. Its in the same mall area, but its on the other side of the L shape. I have never been able to get that layout down like I did the other one. I always end up wandering around looking for the stuff I need. 
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11-23-2007, 08:51 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | I think our store moves things around just so you do spend more time looking for stuff. they move things every few months I think. When you see things that you aren't looking for they catch your eye and they hope you will buy them. | 
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11-23-2007, 09:05 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | Well maybe thats part of the problem. I know they did reconfigure a little bit a year ago to add a specialty baking/food items (like special utensils, books, etc).
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11-24-2007, 02:38 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | The chain I shop at (Publix) seems to have different layouts in different stores. I know the layout of the one by my house by heart, but if I pop into the store by my work, I usually have to stop and think for a few minutes where everything is.
The other day, I stopped into a Publix that I've never been in before, and spent a good five minutes wandering around trying to find what I was looking for. The layout of that store was very confusing, and there didn't seem to be a rhyme or a reason to it. | |
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11-24-2007, 02:44 PM
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| | Suzie (Site owner)
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Rep Power: 10 | Kroger is like that too. At the one near my house the bread is near the entry where the produce is, at the one near my mom's house it's in the last isle from the entry where the milk is. I hate going to the others, mine is in my comfort zone. | |
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11-24-2007, 02:48 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | Mine too. I can zip in and out of the store by my house in 20 minutes, but if I shop at another store, I always end up forgetting something and having to backtrack because it's not where I thought it would be. Drives me insane. | |
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11-24-2007, 03:16 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | What 'experts' recommend is just shopping the outside perimeter of the store. All the essentials are there. The in between aisles have the extra stuff. All stores are pretty much laid out this way....around the outside, produce, dairy, meat, bread. In the middle chips, cookies, canned items, snacks, condiments.
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11-24-2007, 03:37 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | The Krogers and Publix that I have been to have all been very nice stores.
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11-24-2007, 03:45 PM
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Rep Power: 2 | I've heard the perimeter shopping thing as well. For the most part, it does serve me well, and there are certain isles that I can always skip completely, but there are always things I need in the middle of the store.
I do almost always skip the cookie and cracker isle, since I don't buy that stuff. The exception is when I need saltine crackers. Then I just walk really fast down the isle because I love Cheez-its and don't want to know that they are buy one get one free. I can't handle that temptation. Same with the chip isle. I never crave that stuff, but I can't keep from eating it when it's in the house. | |
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11-24-2007, 03:55 PM
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Rep Power: 10 | I get quite a few of my staples that keep well at sams. Flour, sugar, I even get my soup crackers there. Cheese too, they carry sargentos now and I can use the foodsaver to seal it up and keep for a long time. | |
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