Stores moving shopping isles - can't find anything :-(

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I'm bummed because last month, the Meijer store I grew up with had finally been remodelled to look exactly like the rest of them

If you can't find something, ask for it. If they don't help you or don't know where it is, follow up your question with a 'can you find someone who knows' and you have now put them in a position where they must help you or else look like an idiot.

I despise pointless change for the sake of change.

My supermarket recently did this re-arrange the whole store 'just because' crap. The irony is that for me at least, I buy less than ever.

I will only look for what I want for so long before giving up and going without, and it is impossible for me to consider other purchases while I am distracted by not being able to find what I need and feeling so very overwhelmed and disorientated, and it's difficult for me to not feel overwhelmed and disorientated even when the layout is familiar.

I'm far more inclined to consider buying extras when I am relaxed, so this requires both that I am not stressed and frustrated with being unable to find what I need, and also that I am not so overwhelmed with navigating (the environment) that I lack the cognitive resources to devote to extra considerations.

another grocery store pet peeve of mine on top of the stuff you guys have mentioned is placing displays, cases, and tempoarary shelves in the middle of aisles, and trafficways. The supermarkets frequently like to put a cardboard display case or something right as you turn a corner with your shopping cart, so you will see it right in front of you. Well, not being the most coordinated type, I typically run into the display, and sometimes turn it over, scattering it's contents all over the place. Because I am annoyed the store put something in such a stupid location, I just leave the mess there! I think that sends the biggest message "You're an idiot for placing this here! Move it!"

Some of the stores however love to place a display case right at the end of the conveyor belt where you unload the shopping cart, forcing you to pull the shopping cart down the checkout aisle with you, and awkwardly reach over the conveyor to get the groceries out your cart. Lastly, when leaving the store in your car, they always love to put some sort of sandwich board signs or other advertisement right in the line of sight when you look up the street to see if any traffic is coming before you pull out. I got out of my car once when I saw 3 signs in the way...went over and knocked all of them down. Several of the people in cars behind me gave me a thumb's up!

As many posters mentioned, this is a known marketing strategy, which in fact does increase sales. It is targeted towards NT behaviour, which to be fair, forms the majority of human population count.

NTs do enjoy shopping around, and actually seeing and trying out NEW stuff. Imagine that eh?

There are also correlation studies between products. An interesting example is placing the beer next to baby products: when the wife sends the husband to buy diapers, the husband will not leave the supermarket holding onto baby diapers only. He'll pick up the beer as if to say I came here to buy beer.

It is bloody annoying for me to which I will vent to the shopping assistants, "I am LOST, where xyz etc?". But I know it's not their fault, and they're probably fed up with migrating the same stuff around every quarter.

If we can look on the positive, it helps us break our routine, which can only open up our world a little bit more. You may be surprised with what new things can add to your life (or your imaginary world). It adds more ingredients to your world.

When my local Woolworths changed the layout of their store I felt a bit uncomfortable in it. The aisles were wider and I couldn't find anything. I'm kind of used to it now.

And baby diapers with beer? That would never happen where I live because beer can't be sold in a supermarket, but at the liquor store close by.

neat!...you guys still have Woolworth's stores. All the ones closed up in the USA about 10-15 years ago. Are the ones in your country like they were here? They were sort of cheapie variety stores we called five and dimes, and sold everything from basic housewares, groceries, and even toys. Wal-Mart pretty much spelled the end of them when they got big, but Woolworth's were smaller, quieter, and much more comfortable to shop in...you didn't feel like a cow being herded around in lines and mazes of aisles in the old-school Woolworth stores. Most of them were in really neat old buildings too with cool architecture.

“Whatta ya mean you moved the trash bags!”

That sort of thing irks me to no end. I become familiar with where certain things are located and they end being moved. Worse yet, I’m get in the habit of purchasing one particular brand of a product and it mysteriously disappears from their inventory.

Yes I used to go to this stupid warehouse-style supermarket across from my ex-job. I had to walk through the fruit, veg, toilet paper, chips, bakery and all these dumb items I didnt want to buy cleaning products, stuck behind people who were walking at a snail pace. It was like one of those sheep shearing mazes. It had depressing concrete floors and the shelves went up metres and metres towards the ceilings.