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Offline Chris_

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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2010, 04:25:47 PM »
Considering the pathetic quality of recent Bouncy Tales I think all grocery stores and gas stations should have a small area set aside for Bouncy creation. Maybe if the idiots actually fabricated them on site they would be more entertaining.
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2010, 04:27:32 PM »
Quote from: FGL on January 03, 2010, 04:13:01 PM
Um... I don't get it. Was there a plumbing supply business with a similar name in Nebraska?

Not that I'm aware of.

It's just that "Kroger" sounds more like a plumber than a grocer.
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2010, 04:37:39 PM »
Piggly Wiggly built a new store in a small town that already had a store named Piggly-Wiggly. It had been there for a very long time, even before the Corporate Piggly-Wiggly was formed. But corporate Piggly-Wiggly and little "old" Piggly-Wiggly had a court fight over who had rights to the name. Little "old" Piggly-Wiggly lost so they had to replace the big sign out front. The next week the big new sign went up.

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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #28 on: January 03, 2010, 04:38:12 PM »
I am surprised no one has said a Food Lion..good Lord there is one of them every other mile in and around Myrtle Beach.
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #29 on: January 03, 2010, 04:38:44 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on January 03, 2010, 04:37:39 PM
Piggly Wiggly built a new store in a small town that already had a store named Piggly-Wiggly. It had been there for a very long time, even before the Corporate Piggly-Wiggly was formed. But corporate Piggly-Wiggly and little "old" Piggly-Wiggly had a court fight over who had rights to the name. Little "old" Piggly-Wiggly lost so they had to replace the big sign out front. The next week the big new sign went up.

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Daddy of the Piggly-Wiggly

I drove through a little community once that had a Hoggly-Woggly.
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #30 on: January 03, 2010, 04:40:44 PM »
Quote from: Carl on January 03, 2010, 04:38:12 PM
I am surprised no one has said a Food Lion..good Lord there is one of them every other mile in and around Myrtle Beach.

I shopped at Food Lion when I was in Norfolk and at Giant Open Air.
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #31 on: January 03, 2010, 08:06:41 PM »
Speaking of Wal-Mart..............

How many people from this website do you think are DUmmies?

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/


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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #32 on: January 03, 2010, 08:16:28 PM »
Quote from: Traveshamockery on January 03, 2010, 08:06:41 PM
Speaking of Wal-Mart..............

How many people from this website do you think are DUmmies?

All of them. Except for me and my brother. /sarc
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #33 on: January 03, 2010, 08:27:58 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on January 03, 2010, 02:01:33 PM
Well, push me over with a stack of primitives.

I thought Piggly-Wiggly was extinct because when I lived in the northeastern part of the country, and all those times I just visited there, I never saw one--and Piggly-Wiggly got started there, in New York or something.

Apparently they moved south.

It's kind of like Safeway, which used to be a big deal, but is hardly around any more.



Hmmmmmmmmm.......there's a Safeway in every city with a population of 10,000 or more out here in God's Country.

Go figure!
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #34 on: January 03, 2010, 10:47:05 PM »
Most of my shopping is done on the outer aisles (veggies & fruit, meat, dairy, deli) they rarely change so I don't have a lot of problems with changing layouts.

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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #35 on: January 03, 2010, 10:48:24 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on January 03, 2010, 10:47:05 PM
Most of my shopping is done on the outer aisles (vegetables & fruit, meat, dairy, deli) they rarely change so I don't have a lot of problems with changing layouts.

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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #36 on: January 04, 2010, 12:06:15 AM »
I totally agree Frank. heh.
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #37 on: January 04, 2010, 11:07:40 AM »
Quote from: franksolich on January 03, 2010, 12:01:41 PM
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Oh my.

It's annoying because primitives are reactionaries; primitives want everything to stay the same as it is, forever and ever.  That relieves the primitives of having to open their eyes and look around.

The primitives don't like change.

The "psychology of grocery store set-up" goes way back to the 1920s, if not before, with the advent of the now-defunct Piggly Wiggly chain.

It's very simple; one doesn't have to have a relative in the business to understand it.

Items that are going to be purchased anyway are put way back in the far corner of the store, so as to encourage "impulse buying" on the way back there, and back up to the cash register.

This is why franksolich does not patronize mega-grocery stores.

Items that are going to be purchased anyway are put on the lower shelves, where one has to bend down, so as to give prime space to "impulse buying" offerings.

Endcaps never have items that are gong to be purchased anyway.

It's all very simple.....excepting possibly to primitives.

I was a grocery store manager back in the 80s. There is a really simple reason why somethings are placed were they are and why the layout change every few years. Primium space is bought by the large food companies . Keebler and Nabisco buy large sections of the cookie aisle. Same with Del Monte and other food venders. Stuff is put on the top shelf tends to be small specialty items. The bottom self is used because it is designed to old more so you be the bigger selling must haves there: corn, tomato soup, etc. The reason that things change every so often is that the grocery change renews shelfing contracts every few years. Also dividing lines between merchandise gets loosey goosey so thing have to be tightened up. This is calle a reset and is a real pain in the but from a managers perspective.
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Re: primitives whine about grocery store layouts
« Reply #38 on: January 04, 2010, 12:04:30 PM »
It can be annoying for the first time or two that the store is re-arranged....but...ummm....that's why there are those realllly big signs over each aisle.

Unless I am in a hurry....I am an up/down every aisle person. Primarily because, if I am not shopping for a specific event (company coming, party, etc)...I never have a list. I find grocery lists very annoying, because if I do one...I always leave stuff off. But if I go up and down each aisle...I get everything I went after.

My pet peeve with the grocery is eliminating so much stuff and replacing it with "low-fat", "no-fat", super chemical stuff.

I'm a big girl....I don't need the grocery store conducting how to control my dietary intake... :censored:
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