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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Well of COURSE the butter is in the Beer & Wine aisle. I mean where ELSE would you expect to find butter? In the DAIRY section? It is to laugh.

[–] billwashere 4 points 4 hours ago

Butter beer. Somebody like Harry Potter

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is honestly pretty frequent if you shop for anything beyond staple items. Like, pine nuts are not with the other nuts, for example. Cocktail garnishes are not with the other pickles. Canning pectin is not with the jello, etc.

You just can't really trust the signs that much. At least in this case it was an entire visible section and not a single tiny box they hid among a bunch of tangentially related items.

[–] RebekahWSD 8 points 7 hours ago

Canning pectin is with the canning jars!

Now, where those are is extremely confusing. Currently I think it's near the sugars.

[–] VindictiveJudge 7 points 6 hours ago

I used to live a couple blocks from a Safeway that decided to put the canned beans and canned chili in the wine aisle, with no sign to direct you there. Is throwing random shit in the wine aisle just a Safeway tradition?

[–] buddascrayon 16 points 8 hours ago

If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Guess I’m built different, I noticed the butter immediately but took 2 minutes to figure out what the problem was before I saw the sign

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

Nothing like the old ~~wine/butter~~ French Cuisine aisle

[–] Today 5 points 8 hours ago

For the really good nights

[–] DragonsInARoom 2 points 6 hours ago

They prob do that because butter is a loss-leader

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago

I think my head would explode if that happened to me. I'd just start moving it back to the dairy for them while tutting very loud.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

A supermarket I go to sometimes around a year ago decided to "reorganize" everything. The first day I went there after the reorganization I almost suffered a meltdown. You know where they put the biscuits and cookies?

You guessed it! In the same aisle than stationery and printer ink. I am not kidding, the psychopath who did this, for some reason decided that printer ink was somehow related to breakfast biscuits.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

They do this shit on purpose. Years ago I worked for the evil empire (Wal-Mart) and they put all the coffee filters next to the coffee makers in the appliance section, not with the coffee in the grocery section or with the consumable paper products. It forces customers to walk around the store to find things. And they would rearrange it every 6 months or so.

[–] toynbee 28 points 13 hours ago

When I was but a youth, I met someone and asked where they worked. They, too, said "the evil empire" (meaning Walmart) but I, being naive and having recently discovered Linux, said "Microsoft?" They laughed and responded in the affirmative.

I believed that for weeks before a Walmart-specific story came up in conversation.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

printer ink was somehow related to breakfast

For when you want your coffee really, really black.

[–] robolemmy 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Unless you're out of blue ink, then you can't print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

TIL people actually look at what the aisle sign

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

That's all I do. And if I can't find what I'm looking for easily I do without it.

I hate shopping

[–] [email protected] 106 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Corporate metric improved: people spend more time in our stores now!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago

thats how CEOs define their rules when their then-by-them-damaged company has to pay them a huge bonus for causing permanent damages to the company 🤷

[–] jaybone 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I like a buttery Chardonnay

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[–] Aermis 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Man I hate safeway so much

[–] GladiusB 1 points 6 hours ago

So does everyone that works at Safeway

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

The signs are by no means a comprehensive list. Surely you'd just check the chilled section regardless. Seems like you were predominantly checking signs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But they generally list things that are at least tangentially related to what you're looking for.

[–] Madison420 3 points 4 hours ago

Moreover alcoholic and non alcoholic is generally a hard line separation so children and whatnot don't have any real reason to be around there.

[–] BradleyUffner 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm used to butter being in the open top refrigerated bins. I associate the cabinets like this with frozen food. I probably would have missed it too.

[–] LifeOfChance 1 points 4 hours ago

It's breaks down alcohol into its categories but not list butter? Seems pretty dumb especially since loads of alcohol sections have a cold beer run like this. Market basket is first that comes to mind.

[–] Kuma 16 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I wish grocery stores (especially those you can also order from online) had a page where you could pick the store (if there are multiple) and then search for the thing you need and it had a number label that would be associated with the section it is in. This weird example from op would be: beer 10, butter 10, wine 10 etc without it being confusing because it isn't a category anymore and you only need to look in that section instead of looking like a lost kid running around in the whole store. Also filling up that big sign with just a number would be a lot easier to read from far away.

They can keep the categories if they stick to them, like meat, bread, snacks and so on so ppl who do not care about the number system can still kinda guess like today...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Some stores do just that. I know I've done it for Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe's.

[–] toynbee 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Home Depot has their interiors mapped out on Google Maps.

It's fantastic. Since they did that I'm pretty sure I've never spent more then ten minutes in one unless I wanted to.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Does the other side of the sign say the same thing?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Clearly butter is popular with beer drinkers. 2 cases of beer 2 lbs of butter, what a fun night awaits. Slip slidin' away!

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