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Not mad. Quietly dissapointed, heavy sigh, start searching.

My brain rearranges the grocery store shelves just fine. It's a dystopian adventure every time I go shopping. Maybe I have alcoholic dementia from my drinking days.

Never gotten mad or irritated about this. The only times where it happens, at least here in Sweden, is when they renovate/expand the store (which very much isn't often). It only happens when it's a good thing. And I like walking around and discovering the new layout and see what they did with the space and modernised tech.

The things that irk me are: Narrowed aisles / space between the shelves and reduced selection.

The local Wally World was the worst about all of the above, but the grocery store in town also remodeled recently and seems to have done the same thing.

I think one of the reasons it irritates me is because it makes no logical sense to me, they've moved the shelves closer together and reduced aisle space so they can fit in more shelves, wouldn't that theoretically mean there's room for a bigger selection of items? How is it even possible that the aisles are smaller and yet so many of the brands/items I bought regularly are no longer available?

Actually, in the case of Walmart, I think I know the answer. The main aisles used to be wide enough for 6 - 8+ shopping carts minimum, except from September through early January when all the displays of holiday junk would be placed out. Now, they've placed a mix of seasonal and non-seasonal displays in the center of all the main aisles year round, using all that space people could use to traverse the store more quickly.

Most of the year, those displays are filled with the exact same brands and products that are also sitting and taking up regular shelf space as well. Heaven forbid if I want some Marie Sharp's hot sauce. They've got 8 types of Texas Pete, and a display of Texas Pete hot sauce in the main aisle, and a smaller display on an end cap near the meats. If I want some Dolly Parton cake mix and icing, there are 4 places in the store that they keep it. Suppose that's also why they stopped carrying my preferred flavor/brand of gum.

YELLING AT CLOUDS

I have ADHD and don't notice nor remember where the things used to be :^)

That was actually me job for a year. I was that asshole at Walmart that moved everything. Better than stocking shelves since it was full time M-F. I still hate it 10 years after i left since i can't locate shit at my Walmart. They moved the pharmacy section all the way across the store.

Some nights my job was to really deep clean the shelves and move maybe a few items to make room for a new product.

The problems came when our sheets tell us how much goes on a shelf and it'seven on the la els but then they just move the tags because they don't want the cereal to look empty at that section. They also doesn't like me in the back room because i would bring back loads of overstock because you let an employee stock an 12 boxes of cherios family size on the shelf and I'm following corporate guidelines that say that size should have 2 facings, not 4.

I will say cap 3, mod team, or whatever they call it was still the best job i had at walmart.

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That's my life.

they moved the electric kettles ONE SHELF OVER. that's all. i was just waiting for the pharmacy, i wasn't even buying anything. hold on i just got myself worked up i need to make some tea. ELECTRIC KETTLES AAAA IT'S GONNA BE LIKE THIS ALL WEEK

I've ended my relationship with stores for this reason.

Welcome to autism, more like.