This weekend I ran to my favorite Safeway to perform my weekly shopping excursion.
Like any decent woman I was also running eight million other errands...so I had time constraints. Naturally, I've completely memorized the entire layout of the store and I can usually blast through in about 20 to 30 minutes (including the check out line). Oh yeah baby, I'm that good.
DRAT! DANG-NABBIT! HECK-FIRE! (AND OTHER UNSPEAKABLE THINGS)
Some evil higher power re-organized the shelves and the layout in my grocery store! Now that is completely unauthorized. No one called me. No one asked me how I felt about it.
- The chips are now over on the liquor aisle, along with the mixers, but not all of the carbonated beverages are that aisle...they're halfway across the store.
- The crackers and cookies are now on a completely separate aisle from the juice (specifically juice boxes). Who in their right mind would do that to a busy mother?!?!?
- And I blush to address the fact that feminine hygience products are now on the cleaning aisle.
I'm so overwhelmed by the disorder of this aisle movement, I can't even remember what other horrid shifts occured.
WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
You know were else they've done this to me? At my Target store. Again the one I know like the back of my hand. It's not like it's only happened once. Both my Safeway and my Target have done this to me multiple times
Are they just bored looking at the same old same old every day? Go home and move your couch, but don't move the q-tips and the dental floss across the *&&^%$$ing store!
Do they just enjoy watching the panicked looks that spread over the customers' faces?
IT'S LIKE LAS VEGAS...SERIOUSLY
Have you ever been in Vegas and tried to quickly get from Point A to Point B in any large casino/hotel? It can't be done. They force you to walk a labyrinthine path through the slots, roulette wheels, black jack tables, shops, more shops, then some more gambling areas, then a few more shops, until at last you pass the final shops and arrive at your destination.The theory is the more stuff you see, the more money you'll spend.
And I believe this is precisely what they're doing when the rearrange my stores unexpectedly.
In my time-constrained search for the macaroni and cheese, I'm forced to pass by countless other products that perhaps I've never even seen until now. "Oooooo, I had no idea they carried canine aspirin. I need that!"
And I don't even have a dog -
