Reply #40: I agree. Supermarkets are the worst.

[salvorhardin]

I loathe supermarkets. Or rather I long for the "good old days" of the 1980s when grocery stores started expanding their selection to include fresh fish, a wider variety of produce and "international" items but still had logical, consistent layouts. These days it's getting harder and harder to find what I'm looking for. Frozen chicken? It's in the ice cream aisle! Tortillas? They're in the dairy case! At least the inexpensive ones are. The expensive kind are next to the salsa, which is in the international aisle and not with the other condiments. Prepared pie filling? Let's see... is that a canned fruit or is a baking accessory? Condensed cream of mushroom soup? Should be with all the other canned soups, but not this week because it's on sale. Look for the center aisle display, right between the Fruit Loops and the potato chips!

It's especially frustrating to me because I like to plan (some would say obsess over) my shopping lists and order the items by aisle so I don't forget anything. I realize that I'm exactly the kind of consumer the stores hate, but that's OK because I hate them right back.