I finally caved and had to ask.
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.
Butter beer. Somebody like Harry Potter
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?
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.
Canning pectin is with the canning jars!
Now, where those are is extremely confusing. Currently I think it’s near the sugars.
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
If looked at in a certain way butter is a chilled beverage.
Nothing like the old wine/butter aisle
Nothing like the old
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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.
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.
But they generally list things that are at least tangentially related to what you’re looking for.
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.
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.
TIL people actually look at what the aisle sign
That’s all I do. And if I can’t find what I’m looking for easily I do without it.
I hate shopping
They prob do that because butter is a loss-leader
Man I hate safeway so much
So does everyone that works at Safeway
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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.
Does the other side of the sign say the same thing?
I like a buttery Chardonnay
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.
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.
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.
Where I live supermarkets have coffee and smoothie vending machines, so you can have an in-store-coffee while you are buying your groceries. They have it installed to keep you longer in their store, hoping that you buy stuff you didn’t need in the first place.
There are stores in my area with bars, people can just grab a beer or margarita and go shopping
Where is this holy land you speak?
I wouldn’t exactly call Ohio “holy”. Jungle Jims for the margaritas and walk around beers, the nicer Krogers all have bars though
Where I’m from in Australia it’s illegal to drink alcohol within 2km of a licensed premises that sells alcohol.
It’s also illegal to be drunk in public. All becausewe have a huge homeless drunk community and a serious amount of alcohol related violence
printer ink was somehow related to breakfast
For when you want your coffee really, really black.
Unless you’re out of blue ink, then you can’t print black coffee, even if your black cartridge is full.
So very glad I ditched inkjets. 🙃
I think it’s more plausible that the original fridge had broken down, so butter was relocated to an alternative temporary.
Why would there already be a fridge in the stationary and ink aisle?
So you have everything you need to write the company a strongly worded letter about their reorganization.
