Re: Let's hear your grocery store rant
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:38 pm
Okay, here's my rant...
It drives me crazy when grocery stores put things on the end caps for display and fail to put them in the place where they would most often found. For example, certain potato chips that we buy. Oh, they aren't with the other potato chips and snacks -- they are on the end cap near the picnic baskets! Gee, I didn't notice them there.
Or, parchment paper. Instead of putting it with plastic wrap and foil, or even the baking aisle, it's on a little metal hangy thing on the aisle with the oil and salad dressing. Why didn't I think to look there??
Here's something that happened to me at Fresh Market the other day. I saw raspberries on special for $3.99 a container. So I took two. They rung up at $5.99 each. I told the cashier that they were supposed to be $3.99. She said, "Oh, that's the regular raspberries. You have the organic." So I run back to the produce area (luckily no one was behind me at that point) and don't see anything there EXCEPT the organic berries. So I leave my two boxes there, go back to the cashier and tell there are only organic berries on display, and she says, "Oh, sorry. You can have the organics at $3.99 then." That was a very nice thing for her to do, but now I have to go back to the produce area to get the two containers again! At that point there was a line behind me...
It drives me crazy when grocery stores put things on the end caps for display and fail to put them in the place where they would most often found. For example, certain potato chips that we buy. Oh, they aren't with the other potato chips and snacks -- they are on the end cap near the picnic baskets! Gee, I didn't notice them there.
Or, parchment paper. Instead of putting it with plastic wrap and foil, or even the baking aisle, it's on a little metal hangy thing on the aisle with the oil and salad dressing. Why didn't I think to look there??
Here's something that happened to me at Fresh Market the other day. I saw raspberries on special for $3.99 a container. So I took two. They rung up at $5.99 each. I told the cashier that they were supposed to be $3.99. She said, "Oh, that's the regular raspberries. You have the organic." So I run back to the produce area (luckily no one was behind me at that point) and don't see anything there EXCEPT the organic berries. So I leave my two boxes there, go back to the cashier and tell there are only organic berries on display, and she says, "Oh, sorry. You can have the organics at $3.99 then." That was a very nice thing for her to do, but now I have to go back to the produce area to get the two containers again! At that point there was a line behind me...