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A trip to the grocery store - 8/8/2006 4:56:22 PM   
Lashra


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Status: offline 		It may just be me but I thought this was rather different. I went to the brand new grocery store they built not to far from my home. I went looking for sanitary napkins. So I go on in and look around in the usual places, near the medicines, the cosmetics aisle and I find nothing. So I have no patience and I ask one of the folks who work there where they are.
She says Oh those are on the same aisle as the cleaning and laundry items. I go down the aisle and sure enough right across from the laundry detergents and cleaning items of all kinds are the fem hygiene products, contraceptives and baby products. This seemed a bit odd to me. I'm the questioning kind, so I went back to the woman and asked her about it. She said its something their marketing department came up with. So then I asked Wheres the automotive stuff, over near the beer and pretzel aisle? Sure enough....

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/8/2006 5:08:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Funny!  And you know what, at most grocery stores, if you have 10 items, they send you out the door with 8 to 10 of those damned plastic bags!  You know, the same ones you see floating on the breeze around town, stuck to car grills or entangled in trees. 

I think the majority of the chain supermarkets have their heads up their arses.  I like shopping at Whole Foods.  A little more expensive but personally, I think it's worth it.  And I doubt they'd have sanitary napkins on the cleaning and laundry aisle. 

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/8/2006 5:26:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		This brings to mind my little story of when a close friend of mine (a girlfriend of a more platonic nature) asked me if I could pick up some sanitary napkins for her at the store. She and I both knew that I'm not at all bothered by the whole "Oh god, I might be seen by someone buying sanitary napkins" thing, so I didn't think anything of it. But to be honest, I don't know the first thing about brands or types, so while I was in the area, I asked a woman that was there which brand was popular, or that she would prefer. She said something in somewhat of a mutter, so I continued looking for a few minutes until the store manager came over to me and asked me to leave, thinking I was some pervert scouting out the sanitary napkin section for women. So, essentially, I got kicked out of a Safeway for bothering women in the sanitary napkin section. Sometimes, you just can't win.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/8/2006 5:26:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Your the second person to recommend Whole Foods. There is one not to far from my house, I've just never checked it out. I think that I shall.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 5:02:01 AM   
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Funny!  And you know what, at most grocery stores, if you have 10 items, they send you out the door with 8 to 10 of those damned plastic bags!  You know, the same ones you see floating on the breeze around town, stuck to car grills or entangled in trees. 



Here in Ireland they brought in a charge for those plastic bags to encourage people to be more green and to use proper shooping bags, for the main part it has worked so less trees here growing plastic bags. :)

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 5:45:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ok sure, automotive with the beer and pretzels makes a bit of sense. Often times men go to the store just for beer and snacks. But who decided that when women go to the store they primarily shop for cleaning supplies? This kind of stuff bugs the crap out of me when I'm shopping.

I once spent about 15 minutes looking for syrup. It was not with condiments, it was not with baking products (as in PANCAKE mixes) No, it was on the cereal aisle. Now who the hell puts syrup on their cereal?

Now what I wonder is who is doing the studies to see if the marketing studies really work? I think I'm more likely to forget to buy something if I don't see it where I expect to, or decide to leave without it if I'm tired of shopping and can't find it.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 7:34:41 AM   
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ORIGINAL: littlesarbonn

This brings to mind my little story of when a close friend of mine (a girlfriend of a more platonic nature) asked me if I could pick up some sanitary napkins for her at the store. She and I both knew that I'm not at all bothered by the whole "Oh god, I might be seen by someone buying sanitary napkins" thing, so I didn't think anything of it. But to be honest, I don't know the first thing about brands or types, so while I was in the area, I asked a woman that was there which brand was popular, or that she would prefer. She said something in somewhat of a mutter, so I continued looking for a few minutes until the store manager came over to me and asked me to leave, thinking I was some pervert scouting out the sanitary napkin section for women. So, essentially, I got kicked out of a Safeway for bothering women in the sanitary napkin section. Sometimes, you just can't win.


Your friend should have told you what to get. Would have saved you the trouble and gotten her something -- as it was you got hassled and she got nothing.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 7:37:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've actually participated in a few studies about where to place items in the store and on shelves. The bad studies just ask you to remember what things you bought, better studies use mock-ups of stores and track what you click/look at, the best studies track what you actually buy.

What annoys me is that they are always moving things around. Fox and I went to Marsh just last week to get cupcakes for his birthday party and they were remodeling the store (again, like every other year) and we couldn't find some other things. Of course, unlike most women I can say to my slave "Go find out where they moved this" and he'll run around or ask for me then take me directly there -- complaining the entire walk that the store is stupid.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 7:59:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's pretty funny Lashra.  Only one explanation for it though... the marketing department is run by a bunch of men!!

By the way, Whole Foods is a great store.... it can get expensive, especially if you try to do all of your shopping there.  I buy all of my produce and seafood there, and they make a killer smoothie you can drink while you shop.

Their organic choices are far more attractive and numerous, than any grocery store I have been to. and Whole Foods is great to their employees.  It's a very pleasant place to shop.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 8:34:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ok thats just too funny and oh so very sad

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 11:00:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well the store I was referring too just happens to be a Safeway. Another thing I noticed as I was walking into the store. They have a set of those doors that open with a sensor as you approach. On the left one, which most people use to exit there was a white sheet of paper which I stopped to read before going inside. It said: "Anyone entering this store consents to have their image used for advertisting purposes." If you didnt see it and stop to read it before you went in you would never know.
I personally don't care if they take my picture, but I am sure there are some people out there who might.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 11:06:25 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: thetammyjo

quote:

ORIGINAL: littlesarbonn

This brings to mind my little story of when a close friend of mine (a girlfriend of a more platonic nature) asked me if I could pick up some sanitary napkins for her at the store. She and I both knew that I'm not at all bothered by the whole "Oh god, I might be seen by someone buying sanitary napkins" thing, so I didn't think anything of it. But to be honest, I don't know the first thing about brands or types, so while I was in the area, I asked a woman that was there which brand was popular, or that she would prefer. She said something in somewhat of a mutter, so I continued looking for a few minutes until the store manager came over to me and asked me to leave, thinking I was some pervert scouting out the sanitary napkin section for women. So, essentially, I got kicked out of a Safeway for bothering women in the sanitary napkin section. Sometimes, you just can't win.


Your friend should have told you what to get. Would have saved you the trouble and gotten her something -- as it was you got hassled and she got nothing.


I was thinking the same thing, unless she was playing a joke on him.  It's not an issue of brand preference, it's a matter of where you are at on your period. Unless she went into detail about the kind of flow she was having, but even that would be a hassle to explain. Just say what you want.
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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 11:14:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Speaking of placement. There is one particular type of corn chip that I like better than others. This same company also has tortillas, dips, etc. What I find most frustrating is that for some odd reason all of the stores that carry this brand insist on placing a whole "Mission" (brand) display someplay in their store that has nothing at all to do with chips, tortillas OR the dips. I can search the whole chip/snack isle....no Mission chips. I can search the whole refridgerated section there will be no Mission tortillas. Same for dips, etc. But is some obscure place that has nothing to do with anything they sell, there will be an entire display of all Mission brank products.
Now, I hate shopping, detest it. So, to limit my shopping agony I do lists. I create these lists based on the layout of the store I know I am going into. If I am going into Cubs, I know that the liquor dept is right inside the door, next the fresh produce.....etc etc etc. I categorize my list so that I can zip thru that store grabbing everything I need and get the hell out in the fastest time possible. UNLESS, I just happen to have had an urge for some nachos.........and need the Mission chips. By the time I find the GD chips I end up all discombobulated, lost my place on the list, forget something important like ohhhhhhhhh cheese, sour cream, black beans OR god forbid, the delish hot green salsa I have to have on my nachos.
Maybe the people creating the floor plans are sadists and the cashiers are masochists! Because by the time I get thru with trying to find everything on my list I am feeling pretty darn grumpy and when that chipper lil cashier asks "did you find everything okay ma'am?" I really want to smack somebody.


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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 11:22:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		HAHAHAH!! LaTigresse I think you are correct! I hate grocery shopping too and if my sub lived closer, I'd get him to do it.
I was so used to the old store, I knew where everything was, because I also have my favorite brands. This new store is HUGE it has a Starbucks, a dry cleaners, a bank, a florist, a pharmacy, all it needs is a sushi bar to be complete. I can't find anything but alas as time goes on I'll get used to the layout. I just have this urge to tell them though, why don't you put the condoms on the automotive aisle with the beer and pretzels instead of the Fem hygiene/cleaning products.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/9/2006 2:11:42 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lashra

Well the store I was referring too just happens to be a Safeway. Another thing I noticed as I was walking into the store. They have a set of those doors that open with a sensor as you approach. On the left one, which most people use to exit there was a white sheet of paper which I stopped to read before going inside. It said: "Anyone entering this store consents to have their image used for advertisting purposes." If you didnt see it and stop to read it before you went in you would never know.
I personally don't care if they take my picture, but I am sure there are some people out there who might.

~Lashra


What cheek.  I believe I'd either turn around and go elsewhere, or else pull on a paper bag with eye holes cut out. 
 
Oh, and I'll endorse Whole Foods as well.  They're professional, friendly, and actually seem to care about thier customers AND the environment.  pup and I will go there on occasion (as finances permit) for various items.

 
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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/10/2006 2:40:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I took a marketing class. Stores rearrange products becuase its a known fact consumers have tunnel vision. Once we know where everything is, we no longer look at anything we dont want/need.

The object of a rearranged store is to get you to look at everything once again. You are newly redirected. They do this becuase quite frankly, it works. We discover "new" items we never saw before and buy more stuff. So forever more, expect stores to rearrange the product every two-three years.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/10/2006 3:19:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another marketing ploy. The more expensive items in a grocery store are placed at eye level. The cheaper products and off brands are placed lower or higher on the shelves.

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/10/2006 3:53:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		There is at least one book out there (I believe its name is)  'Why we buy' that deals with grocerystore marketing in some detail.

I had a friend who worked for the coca-cola company.  He was the Manager of Space Execution.........

one of the things they did, was go around to volume stores  behind  the delivery guys...'and front the product'  that means that in the 6 packs or  liters or whatever........take a close look now...everything was turned so the lables matched.......of course all the other sugarwater companies do it as well, and every  other  consumable segment does too......the new paradigm is to put expensive (in terms of margin) to the outside, and cheap to the interior.........it may not always be that the most expensive is at eye level, it is more at what they want you to buy, according to profit.


Yadda yadda yadda.......

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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/10/2006 4:43:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Lashra,
 
Those who endored Whole Foods weren't off base. Its the single best food store in the Chicago area. As someone who enjoys good food and cooks, I refuse to go elsewhere. You rarely find yourself unsatisfied with what they have but if you should, all you have to do is mention it and they will refund your money w/o the product or a reciept. But I'm not sure what they have in the way of sanitary napkins. Whole Foods often fails to provide the usual things you are accustomed to buying in a grocery store. Its a food store and it can be frustrating when you can't buy things like brand name soft drinks, trash bags, etc. But do check it out.
 
 
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RE: A trip to the grocery store - 8/11/2006 8:12:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		We do a good deal of our basics shopping at our natural foods coop here in Bloomington. I should say that we "did". I switched to organic milk a few years ago after an operation because I thought less hormones might help my problems not come back.

Well, Fox took me shopping yesterday and he didn't pay attention to the ring up any more than I but when we got home I looked at the receipt and noticed our milk was $1 more than last week.

Since we are paying coop members I sent the store a letter explaining that until they find a better producer at a more reasonable price I will not be buying that product there any more. It is now 3X the price of milk other places and that is not worth whatever unknown benefit I might be getting from fewer hormones.

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