For the unaware, it's 200% intentional.
Hate capitalism, and the food broker industry.
Amen to farmer coops markets.
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People who buy things just because they pass by them is crazy to me
Like, I'm not a poor boy by any metric (I make above median wage here) but jfc do people have literally no will power? Like they see an ad on TV/The internet and immediately feel the need to consume?
Granted, my shopping lists are vague (usually just like 'meat&vegs for x days') and then once i'm there I pick what's on sale and strikes my fancy, but I don't buy a fucking spare toaster oven just because the store moved the aisle and you need to go past the kitchen appliances to get to the meat.
That's how it works. We humans grew from the wilderness to the traps of capitalism. If brain goes “I may need this, this looks good, I’ll take it” emotionally survival impulsive brain will do it. Logical brain will reject it later, maybe ask a refund if it's smarter. But food brokers bet you won't refund an used spare toaster oven you bought a few hours ago, and they win those bets more than lose for every person that comes into their sales trap.
In farmer coops, you just go to the farmer that you know produces x, y, and z, and bulk buy what you need, freeze the rest. Nothing gets wasted. And if they endup not selling something, to the canteen it goes. Soup for everyone!
A much better reply that my planned "it's intentional" response. Enjoyed that - thanks for sharing.
My grocery store did that some months ago. I still hate them for that. Worse thing is they made it in the most stupid and nonsensical way:
Where do you expect to find office material and ink cartridges for printers? That's right! The biscuit aisle!
And jelly, honey and other breakfast products? Exactly! Next to canned tunna and pasta sauces, right after vegetal oils!
Do you need fruit juices? Beer aisle, in front of the toilet paper!
I swear if I ever find the guy responsible for this...
These 'small stresses' all add up, and my cooker conspiracy is that they are designed to take up our mental bandwidth, so that we get too tired to address the real issues in our society.
Fuck Kroger, they buy up good grocery chains and turn them into the Amazon of grocery stores except they don't have everything they only have one popular brand and then their copy of it, the speed at which they are copying products is truly amazing.
Or they could do what Wegmans does and offer their store brand EXCLUSIVELY. Drives me nuts.
Isn't that every big chain though? Safeway does the same thing
Yeah kinda, but they've really ramped it up, they used to only copy like one variety of an item but now they'll just copy the whole product line and put them in similar looking boxes.
Here I thought Kroger owned Safeway. Turns out that merger was actually blocked. Albertsons owns Safeway and the merger between Albertsons and Kroger was blocked in Dec 2024.
Even if it had gone through, the practice was being done before that date. My point is that Kroger is not unique
Conpletely justified reaction.
That's why I stopped walk to them and always buy online
things like this would make me boycott a grocery store until the end of time
Hyvee keeps doing this to me, but come to think of it, the Woodmans near me has been basically the same my entire life. The produce is in the same place, and you walk past it because their produce sucks. But the bread section has everything you could want (at least as far as packaged factory bread goes), and that's in the same spot. Milk? Cookies? Noodles? Chips? Dog food? All in the same place. I think they cleared some space for a "health food" section at some point, but that's about it.
The difference is probably that Woodman's is ostensibly employee owned.