All shopping carts should have these

NonPermissive · 2012-10-01T11:55:18+00:00

If you know where you're going, you'll spend less time in the store, and buy less. For the same reason you'll rarely see a clock in a supermarket or mall. Not to mention the ad space being used.

mattzildjian · 2012-10-01T14:38:03+00:00

I thought it was a motherboard layout

deja-vu-comment · 2012-10-01T11:50:19+00:00

how am I supposed to get lost and spend all my money if there is a map telling me where I want to go?

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jmewhite1 · 2012-10-01T14:06:04+00:00

darkreef2 is just reposting other peoples old pictures for karma whoring

marky_sparky · 2012-10-01T14:38:11+00:00

I'd prefer something with some reminders on how not to be an inconsiderate asshole at the grocery store. For example:

Walk on the same side of the aisle as your country's traffic drives on.
Move your shit out if the way when you are sitting there trying to decide if you want regular or double stuf oreos.
Keep your brood from fucking with other people and their stuff.
Proper hygiene in public (e.g. cover your mouth when you sneeze.)
Stay out of the quick check out when you have a cart full of shit.

topdawg290 · 2012-10-01T14:11:22+00:00

Welcome to a more expensive grocery store. Enjoy your map.

Menouille · 2012-10-01T13:02:57+00:00

Well, for starter, my grocery shop could start by not changing the layout every two months. That would be nice.

iadtyjwu · 2012-10-01T14:35:40+00:00

Why is the wine so far away from the beer? That just seems annoying.

ViralMisnomer · 2012-10-01T14:54:00+00:00

You need a whole aisle for frozen pizza??

string97bean · 2012-10-01T11:59:21+00:00

Beer in a grocery store? Being from New Jersey, I cannot comprehend this.

say_whuuuut · 2012-10-01T13:56:06+00:00

But the eggs!! Where are the eggs?! WHY CAN I NEVER FIND THE FUCKING EGGS

ba_rt · 2012-10-01T14:15:42+00:00

But where is the "You are here" animated icon?

morthor · 2012-10-01T12:34:16+00:00

That would defeat the marketing purpose of leading your throw aisles of stuff you don't need but will make you do an "impulse buy".

Plus, big comercial areas tend to change their scheme according to seasons, so they would also have to do this every few months.

i_like_tuttles · 2012-10-01T14:01:00+00:00

You mean a gluten-free center? I couldn't agree more!!

SparrowOS · 2012-10-01T14:08:37+00:00

casinos don't have clocks.

jambulance · 2012-10-01T14:18:50+00:00

Sorry people, but Bloom is no longer around. It makes me sad....http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/food-lions-owner-closing-126-stores-retiring-bloom-banner/2012/01/12/gIQAEWnutP_blog.html

RapeYouInTheFace · 2012-10-01T14:38:49+00:00

A dog aisle and a cat aisle? What is this madness?

bovinejumpsuit · 2012-10-01T14:42:02+00:00

Why do they have wine and beer on opposite sides? Madness.

Demgar · 2012-10-01T15:07:02+00:00

brilliant and simple. Reminds me of the first time I saw a trail map on a ski lift safety bar, such a simple but useful idea.

alcaron · 2012-10-01T18:19:52+00:00

Or you could stop being a fag and go to the store more than once and use your useless brain to remember something for a change rather than expecting it to be drip fed to you.

Cunt.

/I hate mondays.

Keiichi81 · 2012-10-01T14:28:36+00:00

Or you could just look up at those signs hanging overhead with clear discriptions of what's in each aisle. I can't count the number of times working in a grocery store that someone would ask me "Where's the [insert food here]" while literally standing directly under the sign indicating it.

zombiecyborghitler · 2012-10-01T11:29:02+00:00

All the wasted years!

vaelroth · 2012-10-01T14:18:27+00:00

In addition to what NonPermissive has to say, stores are often paid by suppliers to place certain products in certain places. Those contracts change seasonally so new or seasonal items can be promoted on end caps. Large grocers are required to place so many facings of x product by their contract with their supplier. If they do not do so, then they are in breach of contract and could face a lawsuit at most, or have the entire product stripped from their stores.

mikem4a1 · 2012-10-01T14:34:51+00:00

I, personally, wouldn't like reposts in my shopping cart.

Saulace · 2012-10-01T14:50:49+00:00

Why the hell are the beer and wine so far apart? Why I never!

7719 · 2012-10-01T14:52:45+00:00

I'm surprised even that one has a map. It's a total marketing no-no. They want you to wander around lost, because it means you're more likely to make impulse purchases.

Some market chains will rotate the inventory to confuse the people who take the time to learn the layout.

One thing that will never change though - fresh and good for you will always be along the walls. Junk will always be on the interior shelves. Utility items tend to be sprinkled throughout, as a last ditch effort to draw in the strong resistors.

orlum · 2012-10-01T14:53:38+00:00

All supermarkets should have beer and wine. Stupid Pennsylvania...

yayforwaffles · 2012-10-01T15:01:19+00:00

How the hell does frozen pizza get its own entire aisle?!?!?!

sirbruce · 2012-10-01T15:13:32+00:00

DAE think it looks like a motherboard?

redhousebythebog · 2012-10-01T12:00:19+00:00

I like how the cart icon is aimed at the beer aisle.

NotGreg · 2012-10-01T14:10:08+00:00

Essentially, this is how all super markets are set up. Some minor variances, but this is how the Kroger and Busch's I go to is set up.

rangerbrew · 2012-10-01T14:11:02+00:00

and this chain is now gone . . .

Dudew0 · 2012-10-01T14:13:25+00:00

That's Bloomin' smart.

GoogleBeforeGoogle · 2012-10-01T14:14:02+00:00

These work great, unless your store isn't a rectangle.

Or if they move stuff around. The supermarket near me changes their aisles almost every week. I hate going there. It feels like I'm Indiana Jones in the Store of Wasn't-this-just-there?

tuckmyjunksofast · 2012-10-01T14:16:32+00:00

New name same crappy Food Lion.

borgie · 2012-10-01T14:17:00+00:00

Evidently frozen pizza is not frozen food.

mrdeadsniper · 2012-10-01T14:19:01+00:00

I would be happy if my cart had working wheels..

Warden72 · 2012-10-01T14:21:24+00:00

By the thumbnail, I thought it was a toddler's xylophone. I looked at the title and envisioned myself punching the OP. Then I clicked and was relieved.

I_love_subway · 2012-10-01T14:21:24+00:00

Bloom is awesome

Kendown · 2012-10-01T14:26:06+00:00

Never seen a grocery with such a small produce section... Vegetarians need not apply.

sebkul · 2012-10-01T14:29:43+00:00

The Stop And Stop near me changes the layout every year. When I get used to where things are, they change it on me... The only stuff that stays the same is meat, vegetables and frozen foods...

crystalmyst · 2012-10-01T14:31:39+00:00

I really hope the fresh fruit and veg section isnt as small as it looks :(

draivaden · 2012-10-01T14:32:06+00:00

And when the carts from the various stores gets mixed up and the map is no longer accurate?

hghg5 · 2012-10-01T14:34:16+00:00

That's a lot of money every time they move a shelf.

Logg420 · 2012-10-01T14:34:26+00:00

Nothing stays in the same place long enough (or is no longer stocked) that this map would be out of date within 24 hrs at minimum

icrapoften · 2012-10-01T14:35:34+00:00

This should be law!

horriblemonkey · 2012-10-01T14:35:51+00:00

Isn't this how all supermarkets are laid out?

cumfarts · 2012-10-01T14:36:02+00:00

the giant signs hanging from the ceiling aren't good enough?

ChrisCipher · 2012-10-01T14:36:32+00:00

They don't want you to know exactly where to go. Grocery stores are meticulously set up so that you walk the longest possible distance to buy the common essentials. That's why the vegetables, milk/eggs, and meat are all in very different areas, the most common of which (milk/eggs) is almost always farthest from the door, but also far from the checkout. They want you exposed to as many products as possible so you buy on impulse. This is why they put high profit items in displays at the end of aisles.

I'm willing to bet if they got rid of this map, they'd make a lot more money, but it's possible that they're targeting a niche that is willing to pay more for a fast shopping experience (by raising their profit margins to compensate for reduced sales)

fotoman · 2012-10-01T14:38:25+00:00

why? The real food is on the outside aisles of the store: bread, cheese, fruit, veggies, milk, eggs.

Only venture into the "innerlands" on occasional trips for oils, flour, spices, everything else you can pretty much make from the real food from the outside of the store.

Also, depending on the store, the bulk section might be in the middle or near the outside

mememellie · 2012-10-01T14:38:47+00:00

The world is never this efficient.

bloco · 2012-10-01T14:39:12+00:00

How can we make this happen Reddit?

bbenja4 · 2012-10-01T14:39:27+00:00

Relevant

special2plumsfor1 · 2012-10-01T14:40:19+00:00

It seems like someone could create an app to crowdsource layouts of stores, which we could share and then know where things are immediately.

littlescamp · 2012-10-01T14:40:20+00:00

I'd rather shop at a store small enough that you'd never need one of these.

SMLXL · 2012-10-01T14:41:08+00:00

There should be an app for this

favela_astrobleme · 2012-10-01T14:41:09+00:00

hey, i don't wanna remember things either.

ObviouslySubtle · 2012-10-01T14:41:11+00:00

So where on earth are all the fresh fruit and vegetables?

zelladolphia · 2012-10-01T14:41:14+00:00

I used work for Wild Oats Markets and the head of the Health and Wellness Department said in a meeting once that if you wanted to lose weight or live a healthy life only shop the outer walls of the store for food, don't go down the aisles. Makes sense looking at this, fruit, veggies,beer, meat... all the essentials.

millerswiller · 2012-10-01T14:41:16+00:00

But my grocery story has a different layout than that.

Necrix · 2012-10-01T14:42:35+00:00

Retail stores like to move stuff around to make things seem fresh. The cost of creating new maps for each cart every time a change is made is to high.

dickyweiners · 2012-10-01T14:42:56+00:00

I am jealous of your Gluten Free section.

ZeroThroughNine · 2012-10-01T14:43:28+00:00

What grocery stores really need is simply check out lines. You browse the list of products on a digital screen, and they come down a conveyor belt from the storage so you don't have to walk around the crowded store then wait in line to check out.

this_is_a_recording0 · 2012-10-01T14:44:14+00:00

this is only really a problem at megastores like walmart and if you shop there you deserve to have a little pain in your life anyway

(i shop there)

WeekendWarrior25 · 2012-10-01T14:44:19+00:00

As someone who works in retail in a large store this would be great. It gets annoying when you have to stop everything you are doing to answer the same question 20 times a day every single day

orangecaramelyum · 2012-10-01T14:44:27+00:00

It's a grocery store, not a DOOM Map.

Wait a second....can someone do GROCERY SHOPPING DONE QUICK speedrun?

IrlBlue · 2012-10-01T14:44:59+00:00

why are beer and wine so far away from each other?

balsamicpork · 2012-10-01T14:45:38+00:00

This reduces the chance for impulse buys.

Also, what's the point of tilting your head down if you can't tilt your head head up to see where you need to go.

sometimesijustdont · 2012-10-01T14:45:41+00:00

I remember more than 10 years ago, new grocery stores came with electronic grocery carts installed with sensors and onscreen maps. They would even print coupons when you walked past certain items. They used to exist.

chipilona · 2012-10-01T14:45:46+00:00

Am I the only one whose grocery stores don't change the locations of products?? So confused by these comments O.o

psychroclasm · 2012-10-01T14:46:02+00:00

But the people who need it most (simply because everyone wants them out as fast as possible) won't get it because it'll be obscured by baby butt.

joecooool418 · 2012-10-01T14:46:07+00:00

That layout is probably accurate for 90% of the stores in the US.

SmokeyTheRobot · 2012-10-01T14:47:29+00:00

You had me until 'gluten free center'

iceph03nix · 2012-10-01T14:48:17+00:00

I agree, though there was once that I went into a store that had these, but the map was out of date. Took me a bit to figure out what was going on.

justagrrl · 2012-10-01T14:48:53+00:00

I've been using Aisle411 to make my grocery list. You tell it which store you're shopping at, and it arranges your list by aisles. I print up my list - but it's also a smart phone app.

springboks · 2012-10-01T14:48:59+00:00

Jesus, where's your sense of adventure? You're still going to walk to the back of the store for milk (most grocery stores keep milk in the far back) and other essentials. Therefore no need for a map.

practicalize · 2012-10-01T14:49:25+00:00

You can look up an in-store map on your iPhone or Android using an app called Aisle411. Doesn't work with every store, but they've mapped ~9,000 so far.

jmarks7448 · 2012-10-01T14:51:18+00:00

Theres an app for that

DNAsly · 2012-10-01T14:51:19+00:00

What is this???? A STORE FOR ANTS?!?!?!

djEdible · 2012-10-01T14:51:30+00:00

Oh god yes! It always takes me 1½ hours to do grocery shopping and approximately 1 hour 15 minutes of that is trying to remember in which shop were the cleaning products near the batteries and whether I'm in that particular store or not.

minimission · 2012-10-01T14:51:43+00:00

I just go along each aisle in turn to make sure I don't forget anything, but then again I imagine supermarkets in America are much, much larger than in the UK.

duchovny · 2012-10-01T14:51:49+00:00

If you buy groceries on a regular basis then you shouldn't need a map. Plus all the aisles are labelled.

Also, downvoted for caring so much about karma that you made it your full-time job to spam reddit with submissions.

reagan2016 · 2012-10-01T14:52:59+00:00

They don't want you to be able to find what you're looking for. They want you to spend a lot of time finding what you're looking for, giving you time to see other things to put in your cart.

amberlmag · 2012-10-01T14:53:40+00:00

And a calculator. They'll never do it though because they want all of our money and not realize how much we are spending till we already are through the register.... It's a TRAP

Say_what_you_see · 2012-10-01T14:54:43+00:00

Why is wine and beer so far away?

obrysii · 2012-10-01T14:56:46+00:00

Just another thing for the customers to complain about - either because "the map is confusing!" or because something is slightly out-of-date or has changed locations to one aisle over.

noprotein · 2012-10-01T14:56:46+00:00

More like all grocery stores should keep products in the same place or similar.

supersweettees · 2012-10-01T14:56:50+00:00

RIP Bloom. You were an awesomely innovative store run by a company with no imagination.

DeFex · 2012-10-01T14:56:59+00:00

It would be nice if someone made a phone app where people could get updated maps of stores, and users could change them every time the store changed them. (if a user enters BS they are no longer allowed to change anything)

Oh yeah, stores. Keep the fucken tomato paste next to the pasta or canned tomatoes, not some completely different spot!

Zakumene · 2012-10-01T14:57:13+00:00

Not really necessary, this is almost the exact layout of every grocery store, ever.

alex95 · 2012-10-01T14:57:28+00:00

GPS would be an extra bonus, too. Imagine how fun it would be to have a "You are here" marker on your cart!

Passion_of_the_rice · 2012-10-01T14:58:05+00:00

Based on my experience working retail, the cost with actually keeping these up to date would be pretty significant.

ConkersPlayer · 2012-10-01T14:58:18+00:00

So people can say they are sexist? We all know women cannot read those...

Fraymond · 2012-10-01T14:58:23+00:00

TIL the Frozen Food isles will support SLI/Crossfire.

tristanisneat · 2012-10-01T14:58:38+00:00

I've always thought that shopping carts should have a price scanner in them, so you can total up your purchase before you make it to the checkout. I suppose stores wouldn't want you being able to do that though.

sj_user1 · 2012-10-01T14:58:46+00:00

Most stores don't want you to know where anything is so you wander around an make impulse buys.

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