Lincoln wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:02 pm
We went into the Pap's at the traffic light. Wow all change. It appears to be much bigger due to all the aisles being moved and wider. A huge area dedicated to ...WINE and Alcoholic drinks. The cafe has been altered slightly and has a wall between it and the frozen food area.
Impressive and worth a visit.
Hmmmn ................. I used to have a route through here as I shop for someone disabled, knew exactly which path to take to get what I needed! Not now, still getting used to the new layout & they haven't finished with it yet! I'm all for progress but when supermarkets change their layouts to "spruce" things up it hacks me off! Hopefully, I'll work out a new route soon otherwise I will be the one you see looking lost trawling up & down the aisles
Here in UK, Tesco regularly shift their stuff around in store overnight, being open 24hrs apart from 10-4 Sunday.
It's psyocholigal warfare. They are trying to make us navigate around the store in order to buy the essentials for our weekly shop, like bread, eggs, spuds, milk and so on, in order to place such items further out in the store, so we have to walk miles past loads of new shelves they're trying to entice us to snap buy from!
Do they actually think all their loyal customers have just landed off a banana boat? Grrr...
Sounds like my husbands' and a very good friends' worst nightmare! They used to constantly discuss the way they "shopped" in certain supermarkets whilst me and her other half used to look at each other, rolling our eyes.
The shopping domain was most definitely my husbands' and on that basis, he used to shop whilst I was out earning our daily bread at the office.
Personally, I think I got the best deal out of that one
Yep I agree Al. . . . . . . and, the reason I have reverted back to my local Coop sometimes (in fact, quite often) - because I don't have to walk half a mile to get a loaf of of bread or a couple of pints of milk!!! I may pay a few pence more but I don't give a Scooby.
Tesco, Paps and the like ought to be rethinking their strategy. The consumers are not as daft as they were considered to be Green Looking a few years ago.
Incidentally, I love going to Tesco, Aldi or the Coop with my good strong Papantoniou bags from Cyprus to do my wee messages. ❤
PhotoLady wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:17 pm
The shopping domain was most definitely my husbands' and on that basis, he used to shop whilst I was out earning our daily bread at the office.
Personally, I think I got the best deal out of that one
Not so sure I agree & probably your H would say the same, once you suss the route it's plain sailing but there are plenty of other non-tangible benefits to take into account when deciding who gets the best deal!
It's a vast improvement - the previous layout was dreadful with stuff all mixed together without rhyme or reason. Now all the food is in one place and in a logical order, the home wares/household all in another. Much, much better.
Jeanne
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
Jeanne the wife said the same, what is it about change folks do not like? for me it would be no surprise as I do not do shops, last time I was in the store was years ago...
